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Diminished cytochromeb content and toxic oxygen metabolite production in circulating neutrophils from patients with Crohn's disease

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Phagocytic, chemotactic, and oxidative metabolic capacity of circulating neurtrophils was studied in 20 patients with Crohn's disease.In vitro tests of chemotaxis and phagocytosis of isolated neutrophils from patients did not differ from that of healthy controls. However, superoxide anion production by phorbol-myristate-acetate and formylmethionyl-leucylphenylalanine-stimulated neutrophils from patients with Crohn's disease was significantly diminished compared with controls. Measurement of cytochromeb 559 in total membranes of neutrophils from patients showed that it was significantly lower than in controls. Disease activity did not correlate either with the production of superoxide anion or with the cytochromeb 559 content. It is concluded that oxidative metabolism is impaired in neutrophils from patients with Crohn's disease and that this defect could be caused by a reduced content in membraneb-type cytochrome. Although this defective neutrophil function may contribute to granuloma formation, other factors have to be implicated in disease inflammatory activity.

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  1. Gastroenterology Unit and Research Center, University Hospital “Doce de Octubre,” School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    J. A. Solis-Herruzo PhD, MD, B. Fernandez PhD, E. Vilalta-Castell PhD, MD, M. T. Muñoz-Yagüe PhD, MD, I. Hernandez-Muñoz BS, M. P. De La Torre-Merino BS & J. Balsinde PhD

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This work was supported by grants 87/1180 and 88/1549 from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias de la Seguridad Social, Spain.

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Solis-Herruzo, J.A., Fernandez, B., Vilalta-Castell, E. et al. Diminished cytochromeb content and toxic oxygen metabolite production in circulating neutrophils from patients with Crohn's disease. Digest Dis Sci 38, 1631–1637 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01303171

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