Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 159, Number 6, June 1999, 1967-1974

Pulmonary Immunity to Listeria Is Enhanced by Elimination of Alveolar Macrophages

RICHARD L. KRADIN, HONG-WEN LIU, NICO van ROOIJEN, KIM SPRINGER, LONG-HAI ZHAO, and CAROL P. LEARY

Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Histology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

To determine how resident alveolar macrophages (AM) regulate the antigen-presenting-cell (APC) activities of pulmonary dendritic cells (DC) in the response to particulate antigen, we pretreated Lewis rats intratracheally with liposomes containing clodronate (LIP-CLOD), which eliminated AM in vivo. Controls received saline encapsulated in liposomes (LIP-SAL) or saline alone intratracheally. At Day 3, rats were injected intratracheally with 1 × 10⁷ heat-killed Listeria (HKL) and DC purified from lung were examined for their ability to stimulate HKL-immune T cells without added HKL. Only DC from LIP-CLOD-treated rats displayed enhanced APC activities for HKL. A second intratracheal HKL challenge at Day 14 yielded lymphocytic cuffing of the microvasculature in LIP-CLOD-treated lungs only. Intratracheal adoptive transfer of normal syngeneic AM into LIP-CLOD-treated rats suppressed APC activities of DC in vitro and the lymphocytic response in vivo. Bronchoalveolar macrophages from rats treated with LIP-CLOD and HKL showed decreased production of nitric oxide (NO), a potent suppressor of DC and T-helper 1 lymphocyte activities as compared with those of controls. We conclude that eliminating AM in vivo reduces local production of NO and promotes pulmonary cell-mediated immunity to HKL.

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