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P-selectin-deficient mice are protected from PAF-induced shock, intestinal injury, and lethality

X. Sun, R. A. Rozenfeld, X. Qu, W. Huang, F. Gonzalez-Crussi and W. Hsueh
Department of Pathology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA.

In a previous study, we showed that anti-CD11b or anti-CD18 antibody markedly attenuated platelet-activating factor (PAF)-induced shock and intestinal necrosis in rats, whereas anti-P-selectin anti-body was ineffective. Here we used genetically altered mice to study the mechanism of PAF in mice. We found that P-selectin-deficient mice are completely protected from the adverse effects of PAF with no mortality or intestinal injury and only mild hemoconcentration and transient hypotension. In contrast, CD18- or intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1)-deficient mice were not protected from PAF-induced tissue injury and death. However, when ICAM-1-, but not CD18-, deficient mice were pretreated with fucoidin, the adverse effects of PAF were markedly reduced; survival was 100%, although hypotension still developed. Neutrophil-depleted mice were protected from PAF-induced intestinal injury but still developed hypotension and hemoconcentration. PAF increases peripheral blood neutrophil counts, probably by inducing granulopoiesis, since neutrophil-depleted mice still showed granulocytosis 60 min after PAF. Thus P-selectin plays an important role in PAF-induced injury in mice, and the selectins and the integrin-ICAM-1 system work in concert to mediate the inflammatory response to PAF in vivo.

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