Nitric oxide synthase activity is inducible in rat, but not rabbit alveolar macrophages, with a concomitant reduction in arginase activity

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology
C HeyK Racké

Abstract

Alveolar macrophages were obtained by broncho-alveolar lavage of isolated rat and rabbit lungs and cultured (2.5 x 10(6) cells/dish) for 18 h in the absence or presence of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) alone or in combination with cytokines. Thereafter, accumulation of 3H-citrulline (NO synthase activity) and 3H-ornithine (arginase activity) were determined. During incubation of rat alveolar macrophages with 3H-arginine clear amounts of 3H-citrulline and 3H-ornithine (3.8 and 4.6% of the added 3H-arginine, respectively) were formed and most of these metabolites appeared in the incubation medium (ratios extra-/intracellular of 17 and 70 for 3H-citrulline and 3H-ornithine, respectively). When rat alveolar macrophages had been cultured with LPS the formation of 3H-citrulline was increased about 30-fold and this was accompanied by a reduction in 3H-ornithine formation of about 60%. The effects of LPS were largely attenuated by dexamethasone (10 mumol/l). Inhibition of NO synthase by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA, 100 mumol/l) in LPS treated alveolar macrophages reduced the formation 3H-citrulline by more than 90% and restored the 3H-ornithine formation. After culturing in the presence of LPS the ratios extra/intracellular ...Continue Reading

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