1993 Volume 67 Issue 2 Pages 143-153
Experimental ascending urinary tract infection was induced by transurethral instillation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice whose neutrophilic chemotactic activity was suppressed by administration of colchicine, and we investigated the time course fluctuationof local immune response at the infected sites in terms of immune response cells as compared with thatin normal mice.
In comparison with that in normal mice, a significant suppression was noted in the chemotactic activity of the peritoneal exudating neutrophils when colchicine at a dose of 0.02mg/mouse was administrated a total of 4 times, namely, 1, 3 and 5 days, and 6 hours beforeinfection (the day of assessment). When experimental ascending urinary tract infection was induced by P. aeruginosa, markedly increased susceptibility to bacterial infection was noted in mice with an impaired chemotaxis of neutrophils (impaired neutrophilic chemotaxis group) as compared with that in normal mice (control group). Apparent infiltration of neutrophils was recognized oneday after infection in the control group by the time course observation of the immune response cells at the sites of infection while hardly any infiltration was observed in the impaired neutrophilic chemotaxis group one day after infection. In other words, the cellular infiltration into an infected site was conceivably obstructed when the chemotactic activity was impaired. On the other hand, macrophages inthe impaired neutrophilic chemotaxis group demonstrated marked infiltration as compared with that in the control group one day after infection, and such infiltration remained on the same higher level thereafter. As for T and B cells, an increased ratio was noted in helper T cells and early infiltration in IgG positive B cells 3 days after infection and onward when compared with the control group.
It was therefore suggested that other immune response cells compensated for the infiltration of neutrophils when their chemotactic activity was obstructed, and that these cells on the whole possibly responded toward the preservation of their protective mechanism against infection.
