PMID: 8611722May 1, 1996Paper

Total cell content of CR3 (CD11b/CD18) and LFA-1 (CD11a/CD18) in neonatal neutrophils: relationship to gestational age.

Blood
L T McEvoyMichael F Tosi

Abstract

Neonatal neutrophils (PMN) exhibit a well-documented defect in chemotaxis that is associated with several abnormalities of PMN structure and function, including deficient surface expression of CR3 (CD11b/CD18), a critical adhesion molecule, on chemoattractant-activated PMN. We recently documented that deficient surface expression of CR3 on stimulated neonatal PMN is due principally to a deficiency in total cell content of CR3. In the current studies, we tested the hypothesis that total cell CR3 content of PMN is even more profoundly deficient in premature infants and that PMN CR3 content is directly related to gestational age. A sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for CR3 showed that PMN lysates from term neonates ( > or = 37 weeks gestation) contain about 60% of adult PMN levels of CR3, whereas PMN from premature infants (range of 27 to 36 weeks gestation) contained a mean of about 30%, ranging from 10% to 48% (P < .001 for term [n = 6] v premature [n = 11] by unpaired t-test). When the relationship between total cell CR3 and gestational age (n = 15) was analyzed, the correlation coefficient was .94 by linear regression, and the Spearman rank correlation was significant with P < .001. PMN content of LFA-1 (CD11a/CD18) w...Continue Reading

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