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Changes in function of iron-loaded alveolar macrophages after in vivo administration of desferrioxamine and/or chloroquine.
Legssyer, Rachida; Josse, Claire; Piette, Jacques et al.
2003In Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 94 (1-2), p. 36-42
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Keywords :
Animals; Chloroquine/administration & dosage; Deferoxamine/administration & dosage; Iron/metabolism; Liver/metabolism; Macrophages, Alveolar/metabolism/physiology; Male; Nitric Oxide/metabolism; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Spleen/metabolism
Abstract :
[en] Both desferrioxamine (DFO) and chloroquine can significantly reduce hepatic iron in experimental animals with iron overload by chelating iron from the low-molecular-weight pool or decreasing iron uptake by the transferrin-transferrin receptor cycle, respectively. However, no previous studies have investigated whether combination therapy of these two drugs would further decrease the tissue iron overload as well as iron-induced toxicity. Chloroquine administration, 15 mg/kg, 5x/week, to rats during the iron loading regime, 10 mg/kg, 3x/week for 4 weeks, significantly decreased both hepatic (54%) and macrophage iron content (24%). However when administered in combination with desferrioxamine, 10 mg/kg, 3x/week for 2 weeks at the cessation of iron loading, no further reduction of hepatic iron content was noted while the iron content of the macrophages significantly increased, possibly indicating the flux of ferrioxamine through these cells. Further studies are warranted to investigate the speciation of iron within these macrophages. Macrophages isolated from chloroquine-treated iron loaded rats showed a reduction in latent NFkappaB activation and a significant increase in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated nitrite release by comparison to these parameters in iron loaded macrophages. Co-administration of chloroquine and desferrioxamine normalised the latent activity of NFkappaB to that of control macrophages as well as increasing LPS-stimulated NO release towards control values. However, DFO alone did not have any significant effect upon either of these parameters. Such results may have important relevance for the reduced immune function of iron loaded macrophages isolated from thalassaemia patients receiving chelation therapy and their propensity to increased infection.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Legssyer, Rachida
Josse, Claire  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > GIGA-R : Génétique humaine
Piette, Jacques ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > GIGA-R : Virologie - Immunologie - Département des sciences de la vie - GIGA-Research
Ward, Roberta J
Crichton, Robert R
Language :
English
Title :
Changes in function of iron-loaded alveolar macrophages after in vivo administration of desferrioxamine and/or chloroquine.
Publication date :
2003
Journal title :
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
ISSN :
0162-0134
eISSN :
1873-3344
Publisher :
Elsevier Science, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
94
Issue :
1-2
Pages :
36-42
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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