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2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Markela Koniordou ◽  
Stephen Patterson ◽  
Susan Wyllie ◽  
Karin Seifert

ABSTRACT This study characterized the in vitro potencies of antileishmanial agents against intracellular Leishmania donovani amastigotes in primary human macrophages, obtained with or without CD14-positive monocyte enrichment, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)-differentiated THP-1 cells, and mouse peritoneal exudate macrophages (PEMs). Host cell-dependent potency was confirmed for pentavalent and trivalent antimony. Fexinidazole was inactive against intracellular amastigotes across the host cell panel. Fexinidazole sulfone, (R)-PA-824, (S)-PA-824, and VL-2098 displayed similar potency in all of the host cells tested.


Author(s):  
N. B. FREIMER ◽  
H. M. ÖGMUNDSDÓTTIR ◽  
C. C. BLACKWELL ◽  
I. W. SUTHERLAND ◽  
L. GRAHAM ◽  
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Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (16) ◽  
pp. 3821-3830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masafumi Nakayama ◽  
Hisaya Akiba ◽  
Kazuyoshi Takeda ◽  
Yuko Kojima ◽  
Masaaki Hashiguchi ◽  
...  

Abstract Phagocytes such as macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) engulf apoptotic cells to maintain peripheral immune tolerance. However, the mechanism for the recognition of dying cells by phagocytes is not fully understood. Here, we demonstrate that T-cell immunoglobulin mucin-3 (Tim-3) recognizes apoptotic cells through the FG loop in the IgV domain, and is crucial for clearance of apoptotic cells by phagocytes. Whereas Tim-4 is highly expressed on peritoneal resident macrophages, Tim-3 is expressed on peritoneal exudate macrophages, monocytes, and splenic DCs, indicating distinct Tim-mediated phagocytic pathways used by different phagocytes. Furthermore, phagocytosis of apoptotic cells by CD8+ DCs is inhibited by anti–Tim-3 mAb, resulting in a reduced cross-presentation of dying cell-associated antigens in vitro and in vivo. Administration of anti–Tim-3 as well as anti–Tim-4 mAb induces autoantibody production. These results indicate a crucial role for Tim-3 in phagocytosis of apoptotic cells and cross-presentation, which may be linked to peripheral tolerance.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Kojima ◽  
Yoshiaki Inamura ◽  
Tatsuro Koide ◽  
Hiroshi Nagata ◽  
Noriko Paeng ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 378-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Heumann ◽  
Yoshiyuki Adachi ◽  
Didier Le Roy ◽  
Naohito Ohno ◽  
Toshiro Yadomae ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Plasma lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding protein (LBP) and membrane CD14 function to enhance the responses of monocytes to low concentrations of endotoxin. Surprisingly, recent reports have suggested that LBP or CD14 may be dispensable for macrophage responses to low concentrations of LPS or may even exert an inhibitory effect in the case of LBP. We therefore investigated whether LBP and CD14 participated in the response of mouse peritoneal exudate macrophages (PEM) to LPS stimulation. In the presence of a low amount of plasma (<1%) or of recombinant mouse or human LBP, PEM were found to respond to low concentrations of LPS (<5 to 10 ng/ml) in an LBP- and CD14-dependent manner. However, tumor necrosis factor production (not interleukin-6 production) by LPS-stimulated PEM was reduced when cells were stimulated in the presence of higher concentrations of plasma or serum (5 or 10%). Yet, the inhibitory effect of plasma or serum was not mediated by LBP. Taken together with previous results obtained withLBP and CD14 knockout mice in models of experimental endotoxemia, the present data confirm a critical part for LBP and CD14 in innate immune responses of both blood monocytes and tissue macrophages to endotoxins.


1998 ◽  
Vol 66 (10) ◽  
pp. 4669-4675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meirav Zaks-Zilberman ◽  
Cindy A. Salkowski ◽  
Theodore Elsasser ◽  
Frank Cuttitta ◽  
Stefanie N. Vogel

ABSTRACT Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a potent inflammatory stimulus derived from the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria, has been implicated in septic shock. Plasma levels of adrenomedullin (AM), a potent vasorelaxant, are increased in septic shock and possibly contribute to the characteristic hypotension. As macrophages play a central role in the host response to LPS, we studied AM production by LPS-stimulated macrophages. When peritoneal exudate macrophages from C3H/OuJ mice were treated with protein-free LPS (100 ng/ml) or the LPS mimetic paclitaxel (Taxol; 35 μM), an ∼10-fold increase in steady-state AM mRNA levels was observed, which peaked between 2 and 4 h. A three- to fourfold maximum increase in the levels of immunoreactive AM protein was detected after 6 to 8 h of stimulation. While LPS-hyporesponsive C3H/HeJ macrophages failed to respond to protein-free LPS with an increase in steady-state AM mRNA levels, increased levels were observed after stimulation of these cells with a protein-rich (butanol-extracted) LPS preparation. In addition, increased AM mRNA was observed following treatment of either C3H/OuJ or C3H/HeJ macrophages with soluble Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoite antigen or the synthetic flavone analog 5,6-dimethylxanthenone-4-acetic acid. Gamma interferon also stimulated C3H/OuJ macrophages to express increased AM mRNA levels yet was inhibitory in the presence of LPS or paclitaxel. In vivo, mice challenged intraperitoneally with 25 μg of LPS exhibited increased AM mRNA levels in the lungs, liver, and spleen; the greatest increase (>50-fold) was observed in the liver and lungs. Thus, AM is produced, by murine macrophages, and furthermore, LPS induces AM mRNA in vivo in a number of tissues. These data support a possible role for AM in the pathophysiology of sepsis and septic shock.


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