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Quantitative recovery of pulmonary intravascular macrophages from sheep lungs. 1994

R A Rogers, and D R Tasat, and A E Warner, and J D Brain

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

Pulmonary intravascular macrophages (PIMs) adhere to the endothelium of lung capillaries and sequester circulating particles and pathogens from the blood. Iron oxide (gamma Fe2O3) 5 mg/kg, administered intravenously, specifically labeled PIMs in situ within the living sheep. Attempts to isolate gamma Fe2O3-labeled PIMs using vascular perfusion (VP) procedures yielded few cells. To improve recovery of PIMs, a proteolytic lung digestion (PLD) procedure was developed. Following PLD, gamma Fe2O3-containing PIMs were recovered by magnets and the amount of gamma Fe2O3 present measured by fluxgate magnetometry. Proteolytic lung digestion recovered 34% of the total gamma Fe2O3 in lung samples and yielded 2 x 10(5) PIMs/g lung with 95% viability. In contrast, VP recovered only 3% of the total gamma Fe2O3 in the lung; furthermore, less than 2% of the recovered gamma Fe2O3 was cell associated. Proteolytic lung digestion followed by magnetic separation is an effective way to recover viable sheep PIMs for in vitro study.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008168	Lung	Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.	Lungs
D008280	Magnetics	The study of MAGNETIC PHENOMENA.	Magnetic
D010477	Perfusion	Treatment process involving the injection of fluid into an organ or tissue.	Perfusions
D002469	Cell Separation	Techniques for separating distinct populations of cells.	Cell Isolation,Cell Segregation,Isolation, Cell,Cell Isolations,Cell Segregations,Cell Separations,Isolations, Cell,Segregation, Cell,Segregations, Cell,Separation, Cell,Separations, Cell
D002470	Cell Survival	The span of viability of a cell characterized by the capacity to perform certain functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, some form of responsiveness, and adaptability.	Cell Viability,Cell Viabilities,Survival, Cell,Viabilities, Cell,Viability, Cell
D002478	Cells, Cultured	Cells propagated in vitro in special media conducive to their growth. Cultured cells are used to study developmental, morphologic, metabolic, physiologic, and genetic processes, among others.	Cultured Cells,Cell, Cultured,Cultured Cell
D005290	Ferric Compounds	Inorganic or organic compounds containing trivalent iron.	Compounds, Ferric
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012756	Sheep	Any of the ruminant mammals with curved horns in the genus Ovis, family Bovidae. They possess lachrymal grooves and interdigital glands, which are absent in GOATS.	Ovis,Sheep, Dall,Dall Sheep,Ovis dalli
D016676	Macrophages, Alveolar	Round, granular, mononuclear phagocytes found in the alveoli of the lungs. They ingest small inhaled particles resulting in degradation and presentation of the antigen to immunocompetent cells.	Alveolar Macrophages,Macrophages, Pulmonary,Pulmonary Macrophages,Macrophage, Pulmonary,Pulmonary Macrophage,Alveolar Macrophage,Macrophage, Alveolar