Abstract
Human basophils, stimulated with either anti-IgE antibody or formyl-methionine-leucine-phenylalanine, were examined by two measures of the cell response that may reflect degranulation. Flow cytometric measurement of either of these two measures, changes in forward scatter intensity (an indirect measure of the basophil size) or changes in the intensity of acridine orange-loaded cells (which labels basophil granules), allowed an assessment of the distribution of single cell responses. With regard to the latter technique, structures that appeared to be basophil granules were shown to metachromatically label with low concentrations of acridine orange, which has little or no effect on histamine release. During stimulation these labeled granules were lost, leading to decreased fluorescence. Changes in either the forward scatter parameter or acridine orange labeling occurred on the same time scale as histamine release, differentiating these measures of the basophil response from early signal transduction events. Challenging basophils with a combination of phorbol myristate acetate and ionomycin caused 100% histamine release and allowed a measurement of the maximum change in forward scatter intensity or loss of acridine orange labeling...Continue Reading
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