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Stimulation by conditioned medium of L-929 fibroblasts, E. coli lipopolysaccharide,and muramyl dipeptide of candidacidal activity of mouse macrophages
Authors:Ryushi T Nozawa  Reiko Sekiguchi  Takeshi Yokota
Institution:Department of Bacteriology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo, Tokyo, 113 Japan
Abstract:A simple, quantitative assay method for microbicidal activity of phagocytic cells was devised using normal mouse peritoneal macrophages as effector cells and Candida parapsilosis as target cells. The macrophages were seeded in 96-multiwell tissue culture plates and infected with serially diluted Candida cells. Outgrowth of Candida cells in each well was estimated after a 48-hr incubation period. The maximum number of microbes killed on macrophage monolayers was then determined. The conditioned medium of L-929 cells (L-CM) influenced the fungicidal activity of the macrophages a great deal. An addition of L-CM, to 20% of the culture medium, stimulated the killing activity more than 128-fold, compared with no addition of L-CM. In the medium containing the L-CM macrophages spread very well on the plastic with several dendritic processes, whereas cells spread poorly and gradually cytolysed in the medium lacking L-CM. It was found that muramyl dipeptide at 100 μg/ml and E. coli lipopolysaccharide at 1–10 μg/ml stimulated the activity 4 to 16 times. An application of this method to destroying other kinds of microbes, measuring the activity of other phagocytes, and screening immunomodulators was discussed.
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