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Treatment of Endothelial Cells With Serum from Women with Preeclampsia: Effect on Neutrophil Adhesion

Fiona Boswell, BSc

Ian A. Greer, MD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland

Fiona Lyall, PhD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Elizabeth Building, 10 Alexandra Parade, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, G31 2ER, Scotland

Objective: The purpose of our study was to determine whether the previously reported neutrophil activation that occurs in the maternal circulation of women with preeclampsia is due to a factor (or factors) in senum that increases neutrophil adhesion to endothelial cells.

Methods: The extent of neutrophil adhesion to endothelial cells incubated with serum from women with preeclampsia (n = 12) was compared with serum from normal, pregnant women matched for maternal age and gestational age at blood sampling (n = 12). Preeclampsia was defined as persistent diastolic blood presure above 90 mmHg, with proteinuria greater than 0.3 g per 24 hours, in patients who were normotensive before 20 weeks' gestation. The ability of serum (with and without heat inactivation of the complement system) from both groups of patients to stimulate neutrophil adhesion to endothelial monolayers was tested in a 15-minute quantitative essay using fluorescence-labeled neutrophils. The extent of neutrophil adhesion was quantified indirectly from fluorescence counts.

Results: No significant differences were found regarding neutrophil-endothelial cell adhesion in response to media alone, senum from women with preeclampsia, and serum from normal, pregnant women. This was also the case when the serum was heat inactivated to destroy the complement system. However, heatinactivated serum produced a significantly greater extent of adhesion compared with serum containing an intact complement system, regardless of whether the patient had preeclampsia.

Conclusion: This study found no evidence of a factor in serum from women with preeclampsia that could alter neutrophil-endothelial cell adhesion via a direct effect on the endothelium. However, out data suggest that adhesion may be regulated in an inhibitory manner by the complement system.

Key Words: Adhesion • endothelium • neutrophil • preeclampsia • serum

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Vol. 4, No. 1, 27-33 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/107155769700400105


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