Abstract
A simple semiquantitative cytofluorometric method has been developed for measuring neutrophil respiratory burst activity in whole blood samples. This technique avoids the introduction of laboratory artefacts which modulate neutrophil function. In addition, flow cytometric analysis allows the response to be studied in individual cells. We show here that neutrophils examined freshly ex vivo, exhibit only weak respiratory burst activity in response to stimulation with the chemotactic peptide FMLP (10(-6) M). Prior incubation with rhGM-CSF results in an increase in the number of responding cells from 13.5 +/- 2.36% (mean +/- SEM) to 46.7 +/- 6.3% (P less than 0.0001) with an increase in total respiratory burst activity of 567% (P = 0.001). The majority of neutrophils in whole blood (67.1 +/- 8.1%) exhibit respiratory burst activity in response to stimulation with phorbol ester (1 micrograms/ml of TPA), and this response is also significantly primed by rhGM-CSF (P = 0.004). The enhancement of respiratory burst activity induced by rhGM-CSF is due to both recruitment of previously unresponsive neutrophils, and to intensification of the response of the responding cells. In vivo administration of rhGM-CSF also results in priming of the respiratory burst in response to FMLP, although the enhancement of activity is not as great as that obtained when pre-infusion blood samples are incubated with rhGM-CSF in vitro.
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