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. 1994 Mar;93(3):929–936. doi: 10.1172/JCI117098

Inhibition of leukocyte rolling with polysaccharide fucoidin prevents pleocytosis in experimental meningitis in the rabbit.

C Granert 1, J Raud 1, X Xie 1, L Lindquist 1, L Lindbom 1
PMCID: PMC293995  PMID: 7510720

Abstract

Inflammatory recruitment of leukocytes into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) during bacterial meningitis has been shown to contribute significantly to the neurological damage commonly associated with this serious disease. In this study we tested whether or not inhibition of leukocyte rolling, a precondition for firm leukocyte adhesion to vascular endothelium in vivo, may reduce CSF leukocyte recruitment and associated inflammatory changes in rabbits with experimental meningitis. As documented by intravital microscopy of small venules in the rabbit mesentery and tenuissimus muscle, leukocyte rolling was rapidly and profoundly reduced by intravenous treatment with the polysaccharide fucoidin, a homopolymer of sulfated L-fucose known to block the function of the leukocytic "rolling receptor" L-selectin. Moreover, fucoidin treatment dramatically reduced the accumulation of both leukocytes and plasma protein in the CSF of rabbits challenged intrathecally with pneumococcal antigen. These main findings thus illustrate that inhibition of leukocyte rolling, an early and obligatory step in the process of leukocyte extravasation, may be an effective therapeutic approach to attenuate leukocyte-dependent central nervous system damage in bacterial meningitis.

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