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Abstract

Surmmary

Chemotactic responses of blood neutrophils and monocytes to media conditioned by eight strains of with different virulence characteristics were measured in modified Boyden assay chambers to determine if these characteristics were associated with differences in leucocyte mobility. Responding neutrophils and monocytes were prepared on conventional density gradients, and in three instances, the chemotaxis of eosinophils isolated on metrizamide gradients was also studied. Media conditioned by enteroinvasive and non-enteroinvasive strains were tested as chemo-attractants and compared to the formylated peptide standard attractant. Chemotactic activity of neutrophils was greater than that of monocytes and eosinophils, and migration by all populations was significantly greater to conditioned media than to the control medium. Chemotactic responses to media conditioned by non-enteroinvasive and strains lacking virulence factors was greater than to media conditioned by plasmid- and Sereny-positive enteroinvasive organisms. The results suggest that virulence factors of that determine invasiveness did not augment the chemotactic responses of the leucocyte populations tested , and give no support to the hypothesis that they induce mucosal inflammation by directly increasing chemotaxis .

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