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. 1971 Dec;50(12):2645–2652. doi: 10.1172/JCI106765

Defective granulocyte chemotaxis in the Chediak-Higashi syndrome

Robert A Clark 1, Harry R Kimball 1
PMCID: PMC292214  PMID: 4942966

Abstract

In vivo and in vitro studies of granulocyte chemotaxis were performed in three patients with the Chediak-Higashi syndrome. Rebuck skin windows showed a decreased accumulation of leukocytes at an inflammatory site. Studies in Boyden chambers documented a cellular defect in granulocyte chemotaxis. The chemotactic response of Chediak-Higashi cells by this technique averaged approximately 40% of normal and was consistently reduced using several different chemotactic stimuli. This deficit was magnified by shortening the chamber incubation time or by decreasing the pore size of the micropore filter and was independent of granulocytopenia. No abnormalities of passive motility, adhesiveness, viability, or pH optimum for migration were found in these cells. Chediak-Higashi serum contained no inhibitors of chemotaxis and was capable of generating normal amounts of chemotactic factors with the exception of one patient with the accelerated phase of the disease. Heterozygotes for the Chediak-Higashi trait had normal chemotactic function. This cellular defect in chemotaxis may contribute to the marked susceptibility to pyogenic infections which is so characteristic of patients with the Chediak-Higashi syndrome.

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