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Human neutrophils promote angiogenesis by a paracrine feedforward mechanism involving endothelial interleukin-8

¹Department of Physiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich; and ²Department of Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Submitted 11 March 2004 ; accepted in final form 18 October 2004

Neovascularization by sprouting angiogenesis is critical for inflammation-mediated tissue remodeling and wound healing. We report here that human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) stimulated for 1 h with 100 nM N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP) released a proangiogenic entity that induced sprouting of capillary-like structures in an in vitro angiogenesis assay. The effect was comparable to the response obtained on stimulation with 100 ng/ml basic FGF. The PMN-mediated response was inhibited by neutralizing antibodies against VEGF or IL-8. As measured by ELISA technique, we found that fMLP-activated PMN (5 x 10⁶/ml) released 78 pg/ml IL-8 and 39 pg/ml VEGF within 1 h after stimulation. IL-8 release was blocked by actinomycin D or cycloheximide, but the inhibitors had no effect on VEGF release, suggesting that IL-8 secretion required de novo synthesis whereas VEGF was secreted from preformed stores. Accordingly, RT-PCR analysis revealed that IL-8 mRNA was upregulated on PMN stimulation, whereas the expression of VEGF mRNA was not affected. Moreover, supernatant derived from activated PMN induced upregulation of endothelial IL-8 mRNA expression, suggesting that release of VEGF and IL-8 from activated PMN may activate a paracrine feedforward mechanism involving endothelial IL-8. Moreover, VEGF-induced upregulation of endothelial IL-8 expression as well as sprouting of capillary-like structures was inhibited by a neutralizing anti-IL-8 antibody. These findings suggest that bacteria-derived tripeptides stimulate human PMN to release VEGF and IL-8, which activate endothelial cells and induce angiogenesis by a paracrine feedforward mechanism involving endothelial IL-8 upregulation.

inflammation; vascular endothelial growth factor; tissue repair

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