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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-5-8
pubmed:abstractText
Cytokineplasts (CKPs) are membrane-bounded, anucleate, granule-poor cytoplasmic fragments, induced from PMNs by brief heat (45 degrees C, 9 min), which retain motile function including chemotaxis and phagocytosis. CKPs can respond to repeated chemotactic stimuli even after having been held overnight at room temperature, and hence "outlive" control PMNs. We now report that adherent CKPs lack significant oxidase activity, as measured by reduction of nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) dye, (1) 5 min after heat, when they are often still attached to their parent PMNs (which generally do not reduce NBT either); (2) later on, when they are free; and (3) when cells have been pretreated on endotoxin-coated substrata or with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA); both pretreatments cause the large majority of adherent control PMNs to reduce NBT. Moreover, cells harvested from glass just after heat lack the normal increase in oxygen consumption seen on stimulation with PMA or with heat-killed staphylococci. PMA-stimulated respiratory burst activity was not restored to heated cells by exogenous NADPH. Thus, heat applied to normal PMNs can dissociate motile function from oxidase activity; in this respect CKPs resemble PMNs in chronic granulomatous disease. The apparent increased functional stability of CKPs may indicate that normal PMNs are not immune to their own oxidative killing mechanism.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0360-3997
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
99-106
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Cytokineplasts from human blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Lack of oxidase activity and extended functional longevity.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't