Inflammation Chemotaxis

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These steioids aie capable of preventing or suppressing the development of the sweUing, redness, local heat, and tenderness which characterize inflammation. They inhibit not only the acute symptoms of the inflammatory process, such as edema, fibrin deposition, and capillary dilatation, but also the chronic manifestations. There is evidence that glucocorticoids induce the synthesis of a protein that inhibits phosphoHpase A 2 (60), diminishing the release of arachidonic acid from phosphoHpids (Fig. 2), thereby reducing chemotaxis and inflammation. 

These stimuli elicit a complex series of responses that result in cell functions such as chemotaxis and release of inflammatory compounds, oxidants, and proteases. Probably related to chemotaxis is a rapid, transient actin polymerization response. Inflammation results in part from the release of proteases and myeloperoxidase normally stored in granules inside the cell (5) and from oxidants produced by an NADPH-oxidase system (6) located primarily... 

Lukacs NW, Standiford TJ, Chensue SW, Kunkel RG, Stricter RM, Kunkel SL. C-C chemokine-induced eosinophil chemotaxis during allergic airway inflammation. J Leukoc Biol 1996 60(5) 573-578. 

The gold-standard assay used for all chemokine receptor inhibitors that reach clinical-phase trials is the chemotaxis functional assay. This assay relies on the ability of chemokines to recruit cells expressing their respective receptor to areas of inflammation. In vitro, this assay was first described in detail by Taub et al. (16) for 24/48-well plates currently, this can be achieved by using 96-well plates. Cells are incubated in the upper chamber with an antagonist for a particular receptor (at different concentrations or with buffer) and challenged to migrate to the lower chamber, which has the relevant chemokine. After 2 to 4 hours of incubation at 37°C, the upper chamber inlet is removed and the cells in the lower chamber quantified by fluorescence with, for example, Calcein AM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). 

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Volume 162. Immunochemical Techniques (Part L Chemotaxis and Inflammation)... 

Methotrexate s principal mechanism of action at the low doses used in the rheumatic diseases probably relates to inhibition of aminoimidazolecarboxamide ribonucleotide (AICAR) transformylase and thymidylate synthetase, with secondary effects on polymorphonuclear chemotaxis. There is some effect on dihydrofolate reductase and this affects lymphocyte and macrophage function, but this is not its principal mechanism of action. Methotrexate has direct inhibitory effects on proliferation and stimulates apoptosis in immune-inflammatory cells. Additionally, inhibition of proinflammatory cytokines linked to rheumatoid synovitis has been shown, leading to decreased inflammation seen with rheumatoid arthritis. 

IL-18 augments T- and NK-cell maturation, cytotoxicity and cytokine production. It stimulates TH differentiation, promotes secretion of TNF-a, IFN-y and GM-CSF and enhances NK cell cytotoxicity by increasing FasL expression. IL-8-mediated neutrophil chemotaxis is promoted by IL-18 via its effects on TNF-a and IFN-y, which are stimulatory in action. It plays an important role in maintaining synovial inflammation and inducing joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis. In synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, enhanced levels of TNF-a and IL-1 are associated with augmented expression of IL-18. 

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