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Lymphocyte activation after exposure to swine dust: a role of humoral mediators and phagocytic cells

¹ Respiratory & Allergy Division, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden. ² Dept of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Lung Research Laboratory, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

CORRESPONDENCE: C. Müller-Suur, Respiratory & Allergy Division Dept of Occupational Medicine, National Institute for Working Life, SE-11279, Stockholm, Sweden. Fax: 4687309897

Keywords: dust, lymphocytes, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, soluble mediators, whole blood

Received: March 26, 2001
Accepted September 7, 2001

Exposure to swine dust causes intense airway inflammation with multifold increase in inflammatory cells and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. This in vitro study focuses on the swine-dust activation of lymphocytes in whole blood, in phagocyte-depleted whole blood and in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), in order to investigate whether phagocytic cells and/or soluble mediators are involved in the activation of T-cells following exposure to organic dust from a swine confinement house.

T-cell activation was analysed by flow cytometry with double staining for CD3 and the activation marker CD69.

Swine dust (50 µg) incubated (24 h) with heparinized whole blood was shown to activate 27.6% of the T-cells, while swine dust incubated with whole blood depleted from phagocytic cells or PBMC only activated 4.5% and 4.8% of the T-cells, respectively. Plasma separated from whole blood preincubated with swine dust for 24 h stimulated as much as 32.4% of PBMC T-cells and contained high levels of interleukin (IL)-12 (14 pg·mL) and interferon (IFN)- (2284 pg·mL^–1), while plasma from PBMC incubated with swine dust contained low levels of IL-12 (2 pg·mL^–1) and IFN- (196 pg·mL^–1).

This study demonstrates that activation of T-cells by organic dust from a swine confinement building seems to require phagocytic cells, most likely acting through the release of soluble mediators. Also, conditioned plasma from swine-dust exposed whole blood, which was capable of activating T-cells, contained high concentrations of interleukin-12 and interferon-.

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