Figure 5.
Hypoxia increases neutrophil-driven matrix destruction. (a) Confocal microscopy shows increased Type I collagenase activity in CoMTB-stimulated neutrophils in hypoxia compared to normoxia. (b) Neutrophils were stimulated with CoMCont or CoMTB and breakdown of DQ collagen analysed by quantitative fluorescent assay. (c) Pro-MMP-9 gelatinase activity is increased in hypoxia. MMP-9 activity by gelatin zymography with representative densitometric analysis. Zymogram representative of an experiment performed in triplicate from 2 independent experiments. Original gel is in Supplementary Figure 3. N, normoxia; H, hypoxia. ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001 by 2-way ANOVA with Bonferonni post-test. Bars represent mean ± s.e.m of all data points from 3 donors each in triplicate normalized to hypoxia CoMTB.