Temperature can prime human peripheral blood neutrophils in a p38MAPKa-dependent manner

• Authors: G. Jozefowicz-Okonkwo , D. Nowak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Previous ex vivo experiments by others suggest that elevated body temperature can prime the respiratory burst of human neutrophils. The mechanism of the priming phenomenon induced by temperature has not been addressed so far. Furthermore, the priming temperature range was not defined. In the present study we explored, under in vitro conditions, the influence of febrile.range temperatures on reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation by human peripheral blood neutrophils. ROS production was measured using whole.blood luminol.dependent chemiluminescence. Two elements of signal transduction pathways, calcium and p38 mitogen.activated protein kinase alpha (p38MAPK alpha), frequently underlying neutrophil priming were also examined. Calcium levels in the cytosol of resting and fMLP.stimulated isolated neutrophils were measured with the Fura.2AM spectrofluorimetric method. The activity of p38MAPK alpha was assessed indirectly with a specific inhibitor of the kinase, SB 203580. The study revealed a priming effect at 38?C toward human peripheral blood neutrophil ROS production. Any con. comitant effect on calcium response was not observed. Instead, experiments with SB 203580, a specific inhibitor of p38MAPK alpha, pointed to an increased activity of the kinase as a molecular background of temperature.induced priming. However, the priming effect of temperature was confined to 38?C, while higher temperatures proved to exert no effect (39 and 40?C) or even inhibited ROS generation by neutrophils (43?C). Our study suggests a heterogeneous influence of temperature on human neutrophil functioning, including the prim. ing of the cells by a low.febrile.range temperature. It also suggests a p38MAPK alpha dependent molecular background of the priming phenomenon.

Keywords

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CALCIUM; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; NEUTROPHIL; REACTIVE OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE

Discipline

• IMMUNOLOGY: IMMUNOLOGY

• Publisher: Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 447-456

Contributors

author

G. Jozefowicz-Okonkwo

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D. Nowak

• Document Type: ARTICLE
• Publication order reference: Dariusz Nowak, Department of Experimental and Clinical Physiology, Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Lodz, Mazowiecka 6/8, 92-215 Lodz, Poland