期刊
BIOMEDICINES
卷 9, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9111504
关键词
neutrophils; innate immunity; membrane potential; forward scatter; intracellular pH; flow cytometry; lipopolysaccharide
资金
- research grant (Forum Gesundheitsstandort) from the Ministry of Science, Research, and Art Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Collaborative Research Center 1149, German Research Foundation [251293561]
Neutrophils respond to proinflammatory stimuli by changing their membrane potential, intracellular pH, and cellular size. This study introduces a method using multiparametric flow cytometry to quantify these changes and improve time resolution for monitoring rapid changes within seconds. The findings may contribute to a better understanding of neutrophils in health and disease, potentially leading to novel diagnostic and prognostic approaches.
Neutrophils provide rapid and efficient defense mechanisms against invading pathogens. Upon stimulation with proinflammatory mediators, including complement factors and bacterial peptides, neutrophils respond with changes in their membrane potential, intracellular pH, and cellular size. This study provides an approach to quantify these important changes simultaneously using multiparametric flow cytometry, thereby revealing a typical sequence of neutrophil activation consisting of depolarization, alkalization, and increase in cellular size. Additionally, the time resolution of the flow cytometric measurement is improved in order to allow changes that occur within seconds to be monitored, and thus to enhance the kinetic analysis of the neutrophil response. The method is appropriate for the reliable semiquantitative detection of small variations with respect to an increase, no change, and decrease in those parameters as demonstrated by the screening of various proinflammatory mediators. As a translational outlook, the findings are put into context in inflammatory conditions in vitro as well as in a clinically relevant whole blood model of endotoxemia. Taken together, the multiparametric analysis of neutrophil responsiveness regarding depolarization, alkalization, and changes in cellular size may contribute to a better understanding of neutrophils in health and disease, thus potentially yielding innovative mechanistic insights and possible novel diagnostic and/or prognostic approaches.
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