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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 170, 期 3, 页码 843-854出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.051213
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we investigated the pathogenic roles of CC chemokine ligand (CCL)3 and its receptors, CC chemokine receptor (CCR)1 and CCR5, in bleomycin (BLM)-induced pulmonary fibrosis (PF). An intratracheal injection of BLM into wild-type (WT) mice caused a massive infiltration of granulocytes and macrophages, followed by the development of diffuse PF with fibrocyte accumulation. Intrapulmonary CCL3 expression was enhanced rapidly and remained at elevated levels until PF developed. Moreover, CCL3 protein was detected mainly in infiltrating granulocytes and macrophages, whereas transforming growth factor-beta 1 protein was detected in macrophages and myofibroblasts. Compared with WT mice, collagen accumulation was reduced in CCL3(-/-) and CCR5(-/-) but not CCR1(-/-) mice. Moreover, the BLM-induced increases in intrapulmonary macrophage and fibrocyte numbers were attenuated in CCL3(-/-) and CCR5(-/-) but not CCR1(-/-) mice, although BLM increased bone marrow (BM) fibrocyte number to a similar extent in these strains BM transplantation from CCR5(-/-) to WT, but not that from NW to CCR5(-/-) mice recapitulated the phenotypes in CCR5-/- mice. Furthermore, CCR5(-/-) mice exhibited a significant reduction in BLM-induced fibrotic changes. These results demonstrated that locally produced CCL3 was involved in BLM-induced recruitment of BM-derived macropharges and fibrocytes, main producers of transforming growth factor-beta 1, and subsequent development of PF by interacting mainly with CCR5.
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