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the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Victoria, Australia.
Correspondence to Dr J. Apostolopoulos, Department of Medicine, Level 5, E-Block, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, 3168, Victoria, Australia. E-mail Jim.Apostolopoulos@med.monash.edu.au.
Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is a chemotactic peptide produced by macrophages that may be involved in the recruitment of inflammatory cells into atherosclerotic plaques. In vitro, IL-8 production by macrophages isolated from carotid plaques (1240±510 pg·105 cells-1·24 h-1, mean±SEM, n=6) and noncarotid plaques (4312±1588 pg·105 cells-1·24 h-1, n=9) was significantly greater than IL-8 production by blood monocytes isolated from the same patients (526±278 pg·105 cells-1·24 h-1, n=6, P<.05 and 726±384 pg·105 cells-1·24 h-1, n=9, P<.01, respectively). IL-8 produced by atherosclerotic macrophages was demonstrated to be biologically active in a neutrophil chemotaxis assay. IL-8 mRNA was detectable in plaque macrophages and blood monocytes from these patients, but blood monocytes from normal donors did not exhibit detectable IL-8 mRNA. IL-8 mRNA was localized in macrophage-rich areas of atherosclerotic plaques by in situ hybridization. These studies demonstrate that macrophages from atherosclerotic plaques show an enhanced capacity to produce IL-8 compared with normal and patient blood monocytes and that macrophages are a major site of IL-8 mRNA production in atherosclerotic plaques. These results provide further evidence for a proinflammatory role for macrophages in atherosclerosis.
Key Words: interleukin-8 atherosclerosis macrophage human
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