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  • Title: Sublethal doses of exogenous hydrogen peroxide prime human neutrophils to formyl peptide.
    Author: Puchnina-Artushenko EA, Ledenev AV, Ruuge EK, Muzykantov VR.
    Journal: Agents Actions; 1993; 39 Spec No():C192-4. PubMed ID: 8273565.
    Abstract:
    Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an oxidative agent important in inflammation and ischemia. Neutrophils (PMNs) are a main source of H2O2 in the inflammatory focus. However, after recruitment into the inflammatory or ischemic zone of the heart, the PMN itself might serve as a target for exogenous H2O2. In the present work we found that PMNs are very resistant to the cytotoxic action of H2O2 (LD50 for PMNs is about 30-50 mM, whereas for endothelial cells it is about 200-300 microM). Unexpectedly, treatment of PMNs by H2O2 at a sublethal dose of 10 mM leads to a subsequent increase in the generation of superoxide anion in response to the chemoattractant peptide FMLP (twofold increase in O2- generation 30 min after treatment by H2O2 as compared with nontreated control cells). H2O2 itself does not induce O2- generation by PMNs. Therefore, any H2O2 that accumulated in the inflammatory or ischemic zone might alter the functional activity of PMNs and prime them to subsequent agonist activation.
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