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Boletín médico del Hospital Infantil de México

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RAMOS-RAMIREZ, Patricia et al. Neutrophilia induced by histamine challenge in guinea pig: The role of IL-5, IL-10 and IL-17A, but not CXCL8. Bol. Med. Hosp. Infant. Mex. [online]. 2014, vol.71, n.2, pp.83-87. ISSN 1665-1146.

Background: Histamine is widely used as a pharmacological tool for the evaluation of airway responsiveness. Nevertheless, undesirable and contradictory effects have been described after histamine provocation tests. In previous evaluations of airway responsiveness in a guinea pig asthma model, the control groups consistently showed high neutrophil counts in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) immediately after the histamine challenge. The changes in cytokine and chemokine levels in guinea pig lung associated with histamine induced-neutrophilia are described in this paper. Methods: Immediately and 24 h after histamine challenge, airway wall and BALF eosinophil and neutrophil counts as well as lung cytokines (IL-5, IL-10, IL-17A, TNFα and TGFβ) and chemokines (CCL11 and CXCL8) levels were evaluated. Results: Histamine inhalation generated an all-or-none bronchial response, and the dose inducing airway obstruction was similar in all guinea pigs. Immediate increases in neutrophil counts in airway wall and BALF and in IL-5, IL-10 and IL-17A levels in the lung homogenate were observed after histamine challenge. Significant correlations were found between neutrophil counts from airway wall and IL-5, IL-10 and IL-17A levels in the lung homogenate. Conclusions: Histamine inhalation induced rapid neutrophil LBA and airway wall infiltration that was not associated with CXCL8 expression but with a Th2 and Th17 cytokines that probably are involved in the recruitment and activation of neutrophils.

Keywords : Histamine; Neutrophil; Cytokine; IL-5; IL-17A; IL-10; Airway responsiveness.

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