Affiliation:
1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130-3932.
Abstract
The adherence and emigration of leukocytes have been implicated as a rate-limiting step in the microvascular dysfunction associated with reperfusion of ischemic tissues. The objective of the present study was to define the relation between leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion and albumin leakage in rat mesenteric venules exposed to ischemia and reperfusion (I/R). Leukocyte adherence and emigration as well as albumin extravasation were monitored in single post-capillary venules using intravital fluorescence microscopy. Ischemia (0, 10, 15, or 20 minutes) was induced by complete occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery, and all parameters were monitored for 30 minutes after reperfusion. The magnitude of the leukocyte adherence and emigration and albumin leakage elicited by I/R was positively correlated with the duration of ischemia. The albumin leakage response was also highly correlated with the number of adherent and emigrated leukocytes. Monoclonal antibodies against the adhesion glycoproteins CD18, CD11b, intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) (at 10 and 30 minutes), and L-selectin (at 10 minutes), but not P- or E-selectin, reduced I/R-induced leukocyte adherence and emigration as well as albumin leakage. Platelet-leukocyte aggregates were formed in postischemic venules; the number of aggregates was reduced by antibodies against P-selectin, CD11b, CD18, and ICAM-1, but not E- or L-selectin. These results indicate that reperfusion-induced albumin leakage is tightly coupled to the adherence and emigration of leukocytes in postcapillary venules. This adhesion-dependent injury response is primarily mediated by CD11b/CD18 on activated neutrophils and ICAM-1 on venular endothelium and appears to require L-selectin-dependent leukocyte rolling.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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310 articles.
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