Abstract
The chemotactic effect of a variety of agents for bovine blood polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) was evaluated in vitro in assays of migration under agarose. Activated serum and leukotriene B4 showed significant chemotactic activity whereas various bacterial products, formyl peptides, casein and platelet activating factor failed to attract bovine PMN. In vitro cultures of bovine mammary gland macrophages released chemotactic activity for homologous PMN when stimulated by addition of opsonised, killed Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli or Zymosan or sterile E. coli culture filtrates or endotoxin. No significant activity was produced by unstimulated macrophages. Pharmacological levels of various inhibitors or arachidonic acid oxygenation had no significant effect on the generation of PMN chemoattractants by mammary macrophages.
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