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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-1-17
pubmed:abstractText
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal haematological disorders and MDS neutrophils have various abnormal functions which cause an increased risk of infective mortality. We examined luminol-dependent chemiluminescence and cytoplasmic Ca2+ increase in order to characterize the mechanisms of a signalling defect in MDS neutrophil respiratory burst. In MDS patients, chemiluminescence stimulated with N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucil-L-phenylalanine (FMLP) and calcium ionophore A23187 was defective (17.2 +/- 13.7 v 44.3 +/- 16.6, P = 0.001; 42.2 +/- 21.3 v 82.0 +/- 23.6, P < 0.05, respectively), but phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) chemiluminescence was normal (73.4 +/- 26.9 v 79.5 +/- 23.8, P = 0.52). There were no statistical significances in cytoplasmic Ca2+ increase stimulated with FMLP and recombinant human interleukin-8 (rhIL-8) compared with controls (251.1 +/- 104.3 v 272.7 +/- 41.2, P = 0.295; 238.6 +/- 65.0 v 253.9 +/- 38.3, P = 0.567, respectively). Flow cytometric analysis of MDS neutrophils disclosed that most MDS patients showed normal neutrophil cytoplasmic Ca2+ response to FMLP and rhIL-8. However, two patients with refractory anaemia with excess of blasts displayed a significant decrease of both chemiluminescence and cytoplasmic Ca2+ response to FMLP, and they also displayed low expression of FMLP receptor. These data suggest that most MDS patients have low FMLP chemiluminescence which is not due to a defect in the FMLP receptor. It is proposed that defective FMLP chemiluminescence in MDS results from a putative defect in protein kinase C- and Ca(2+)-independent cell-signalling mechanisms. Only a small group of patients have numerical or structural defects in the FMLP receptor, causing significant decrease of neutrophil respiratory burst.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0007-1048
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
482-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Signalling defect in FMLP-induced neutrophil respiratory burst in myelodysplastic syndromes.
pubmed:affiliation
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Chiba University, School of Medicine, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article