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. 1979 Oct;60(5):537–547.

Replenishment of alveolar macrophages in silicosis: implication of recruitment by lipid feed-back.

G W Civil, A G Heppleston
PMCID: PMC2041503  PMID: 518823

Abstract

The deposition of quartz in the pulmonary alveoli creates a major demand for macrophages to replace those destroyed, but local proliferation of monocytes appeared to be minimal and the role of systemic recruitment was therefore explored. Injected silica and lipids stimulated the phagocytic function of the mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS), whilst inhaled silica provoked lipid accumulation in the lung, thus suggesting that lipid might also induce a proliferative response in the marrow. Using marrow cultures, cells of the rat MPS were identified by size and phagocytic capacity for latex microspheres, and then subjected to kinetic analysis in litter-mate pairs by single and double labelling autoradiography, under normal conditions and after administration of lipid extracted from rat lungs consolidated by silica-induced alveolar lipo-proteinosis. Treatment of the results by a new device facilitated distinction of promonocytes from monocytes and thus afforded a more precise means of assessing MPS kinetics. The duration of DNA synthesis and the cell-cycle time of promonocytes were reduced and the rate of entry into DNA synthesis increased as a result of i.v. injection of lung lipid. These findings support the involvement of systemic recruitment of monocytes from the marrow by a positive feed-back mechanism when a powerful irritant persists in the lungs and the results are discussed in the overall context of silicotic fibrogenesis.

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