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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 158, Number 2, August 1998, 477-483

In Vivo Study of the Effect of Systemic Hypoxia on Leukocyte-Endothelium Interactions

NATHALIE BAUDRY, GAWIYOU DANIALOU, JORGE BOCZKOWSKI, and ERIC VICAUT

Laboratoire d'Etude de la Microcirculation et Département de Biophysique, Hôpital F. Widal; and INSERM U408, Faculté de Médecine X. Bichat, Paris, France

To evaluate the effect of systemic hypoxia on leukocyte-endothelium interactions in peripheral tissues, we studied by intravital microscopy leukocyte rolling velocity and adherence in venules of rat cremaster muscle. We examined the possible roles of changes in blood oxygenation, peripheral tissue oxygenation, changes in local shear rate, and the involvement of integrins. Six groups of rats submitted to either control normoxic conditions, or systemic hypoxia (PO2 = 51 mm Hg) associated with either low O2 tension of Krebs superfusing the muscle, high O2 tension of the Krebs superfusing the muscle, anti-lymphocyte function-associated antigen (LFA)-1beta antibody, pentoxifylline, or normoxic conditions associated with partial occlusion of the artery perfusing the muscle. We found that: (1) systemic moderate hypoxia resulting from purely respiratory disturbance even in the absence of local stop-flow phenomenon or circulatory shock can induce an increase in leukocyte adhesion and a decrease in leukocyte rolling velocity in the microcirculation of peripheral tissues; (2) to be present, this increase in leukocyte adhesion does not require tissue hypoxia of the peripheral tissue but the effect of systemic hypoxia on rolling velocity is prevented by tissue oxygenation; (3) this increase in leukocyte adhesion is mediated by CD11/CD18 integrins but is not due to changes in local shear rate.




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