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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Vol 173. pp. 781-792, (2006)
© 2006 American Thoracic Society
doi: 10.1164/rccm.200509-1518OC

Original Article

A Vicious Circle of Alveolar Macrophages and Fibroblasts Perpetuates Pulmonary Fibrosis via CCL18

Antje Prasse*, Dmitri V. Pechkovsky*, Galen B. Toews, Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Florian Kollert, Torsten Goldmann, Ekkehard Vollmer, Joachim Müller-Quernheim and Gernot Zissel

Departments of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Freiburg; Division of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Research Center, Borstel, Germany; and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Antje Prasse, M.D., Department of Pneumology, University Hospital, Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. E-mail: prasse{at}medizin.ukl.uni-freiburg.de

Rationale: Recently, models of macrophage activation have been revised. Macrophages stimulated with Th2 cytokines have been classified as alternatively activated.

Objectives: This article examines the expression and regulation of CC chemokine ligand 18 (CCL18), a marker of alternative activation, by human alveolar macrophages (AMs).

Methods: AM were obtained from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, or hypersensitivity pneumonitis (n = 69) and healthy volunteers (n = 22). Expression of CCL18 was determined by quantitative reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction, in situ hybridization, flow cytometry, and immunohistochemistry, respectively.

Measurements and Main Results: Spontaneous CCL18 production by BAL-derived cells was markedly increased in patients with pulmonary fibrosis and correlated negatively with pulmonary function test parameters. CCL18 gene expression and protein production were up-regulated in normal AMs after Th2 cytokine stimulation and/or coculture with human lung fibroblasts. Native collagen significantly up-regulated CCL18 expression in normal AMs activated with Th2 cytokines via a mechanism mediated by beta2-integrin/ scavenger receptor(s). Culture supernatants of AMs from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis increased collagen production by normal lung fibroblasts partly mediated via CCL18.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that AMs from patients with pulmonary fibrosis disclose a phenotype of alternative activation and might be a part of a positive feedback loop with lung fibroblasts perpetuating fibrotic processes.

Key Words: Keywords: alternative activation • CC chemokine ligand 18 • fibroblasts • fibrosis • macrophages




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