(Circulation. 1995;92:354-358.)
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From the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôpital Lariboisière, and INSERM U-132, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
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Methods and Results Twenty case-matched patients undergoing open-heart procedures were divided into two equal groups according to the core temperature during cardiopulmonary bypass: warm (33.4±0.3°C) or cold (27.1±0.4°C, P<.0001 versus warm). Arterial blood samples were collected before, during, and 30 minutes after bypass and processed for the expression of L-selectin and ß2-integrins (CD11a, CD11b, and CD11c) with flow cytometry. Warm bypass was associated with an early and sustained upregulation of CD11b. In contrast, hypothermia resulted in a strikingly less pronounced CD11b upregulation during bypass. However, CD11b expression sharply increased thereafter so that 30 minutes after bypass, it was no longer significantly different between the two groups. Changes in CD11c expression grossly paralleled those described for CD11b. Neither CD11a nor L-selectin changed significantly from baseline values in either group.
Conclusions Clinical cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with a marked upregulation of the neutrophil CD11b and CD11c integrins. Hypothermia delays but does not prevent the increased expression of these adhesion molecules, which could consequently represent logical targets for interventions designed to blunt the neutrophil-mediated component of bypass-induced inflammatory tissue damage.
Key Words: cardioplegia proteins cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
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A large body of experimental evidence currently suggests that activated neutrophils are key mediators of the inflammatory reactions elicited by CPB7 through their ability to release tissue-damaging compounds after they have adhered to endothelial cells.8 9 This adhesion sequentially involves two classes of neutrophil cell-surface receptors: ß2-integrins, which comprise three heterodimers (CD11a/CD18, CD11b/CD18, and CD11c/CD18), and L-selectin.10 11 The present study was therefore designed with two objectives: (1) to assess the patterns of changes in the expression of these adhesion molecules during clinical CPB and (2) to determine the influence of temperature during bypass on these patterns.
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Arterial blood samples were collected shortly after induction of anesthesia, at 5, 10, and 15 minutes of bypass, and 30 minutes after the end of bypass. Prebypass and postbypass samples were drawn from the radial artery catheter; during bypass, samples were drawn from the arterial limb of the oxygenator. All samples were stored on ice for a short period until processing for flow cytometric analysis.
Flow Cytometric Analysis
Aliquots of 25 µL were
immediately stained with saturating
concentrations of mouse anti-human monoclonal antibodies to CD11a
(IOT16, Immunotech), CD11b (Leu 15, Becton Dickinson), CD11c (Leu M5,
Becton Dickinson), and L-selectin (TQ1, Coulter Clones) for 20 minutes
at 4°C. These antibodies are conjugated to phycoerythrin except for
IOT16, which is conjugated instead to fluorescein
isothiocyanate. After two washes in PBS, erythrocytes were lysed with
fluorescence-activated cell sorter lysing solution
(Becton Dickinson) for 10 minutes and, after
centrifugation and removal of the supernatant, were
washed once with PBS and resuspended in a 1% solution of formaldehyde
in PBS. Samples were then kept at 4°C in the dark until
analysis.
Flow cytometric analysis of cellular fluorescence was performed on a FACScan cytometer (Becton Dickinson). Green and red amplifier gains were calibrated with fluorescent beads before each experiment to check that relative fluorescence values were comparable between experiments. A total of 5000 events were recorded from each sample and analyzed with LYSIS II analysis software (Becton Dickinson). Neutrophils were gated on the basis of forward and orthogonal light scatter, and fluorescence was measured on a log scale. Data are expressed as the arithmetic mean of linear fluorescence values, which correspond to the average degree of expression of the relevant epitope on the cell surface.
Statistics
Baseline continuous data were compared by unpaired
two-tailed t test. Comparison of groups over time was
performed by two-way ANOVA with repeated measures. Data were
further compared by use of Scheffé's test if ANOVA was
significant (P<.05). All values are expressed as
mean±SEM.
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CD11b. In the warm group, CD11b expression increased
dramatically as early as 5 minutes after the onset of bypass. At this
time point, CD11b mean fluorescence values were already
significantly higher than prebypass values (163±32 versus 63±13
arbitrary units, P<.03) and tended to level off thereafter.
In the cold group, changes in CD11b expression during bypass were less
pronounced and more delayed than in the warm group, since a significant
difference from baseline levels was attained only after 15 minutes of
bypass (85±15 versus 38±6 arbitrary units, P<.01).
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bypass, however, CD11b levels showed a sharp increase, so that the
difference in mean fluorescence values for this integrin, which
was significant between the two groups at 5, 10, and 15 minutes of
bypass (P<.004, P<.002, and P<.002,
respectively), had disappeared at the 30-minute postbypass time point
(Fig 2
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CD11c. The patterns of changes in CD11c expression in the
two groups grossly paralleled those described for CD11b (Fig
3
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disclosed in six patients of each group the presence of a second
population of cells with low fluorescence for CD11b
and/or CD11c.
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L-selectin. In neither of the two groups were mean
fluorescence values for L-selectin, measured during or after
bypass, significantly different from control levels, nor were they
different between the two groups (Fig 4
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There are three selectins: L-, P-, and E-selectins. L-selectin, which is expressed on the surface of all leukocytes, mediates a loose binding of unactivated neutrophils to endothelial cells. These adhesive bonds are not strong enough to overcome the dispersal forces generated by flowing blood, but they allow neutrophils "rolling" along the vessel wall to be in prolonged contact with activating stimuli that cause, among other things, upregulation of ß2-integrins.10 11 P- and E-selectins are expressed on endothelial cells and also contribute to neutrophil adhesion but with different time frames (P-selectin is mobilized within minutes of stimulation, whereas E-selectin expression peaks after 4 to 6 hours).11 13 A common feature of the three selectins is to recognize the same sialyl Lewis-x oligosaccharide ligand.14
ß2-Integrins are
heterodimers that share the same
ß2-subunit (CD18) and have immunologically distinct
-subunits (CD11a, b, and c), which allows identification of
three complexes: CD11a/CD18 (or LFA-1), CD11b/CD18 (or MAC-1), and
CD11c/CD18 (or p150,95).15 These three molecules are
basally expressed on quiescent neutrophils, but only CD11b and CD11c
can be mobilized from intracellular pools in response to various
inflammatory mediators,16 although qualitative changes in
surface expression of CD11b/CD18 might be as important as a
quantitative increase for enhanced adherence to
endothelium.17 Namely,
ß2-integrins serve to strengthen
neutrophilendothelial cell adhesive interactions
initiated by L-selectin, whose shedding parallels CD11b
upregulation.18 19 20 Whereas CD11c
reacts with different
ligands, in particular the complement cleavage product
iC3b,21 CD11a and CD11b recognize primarily members of the
immunoglobulin superfamily.7 15 21
The member of the immunoglobulin superfamily that seems to be the most
relevant to neutrophil adhesion is the intercellular adhesion
molecule-1 (ICAM-1). Although constitutively expressed on the
endothelial cell surface, this molecule is markedly
upregulated by cytokines, with a peak expression occurring
24 hours after stimulation.15 Actually, the
CD11b/CD18ICAM-1 receptor ligand interaction is currently viewed as
the key mechanism of neutrophil shear-resistant
"cementing" to the vascular wall.13 This adhesion of
neutrophils primes them for free radical
production8 and degranulation.9
Neutrophil-mediated tissue damage is further amplified as a
transendothelial cell chemotactic gradient (largely
driven by interleukin-8)19 makes adherent neutrophils
detach and migrate into the interstitium, where they can injure
parenchymal cells directly.22
The relevance of these events to CPB is that neutrophilendothelial cell adhesive interactions are dependent not only on the inflammation-induced expression of specific cell surface receptors but also on blood flowinduced shear forces. One would thus expect neutrophil sequestration to be enhanced during the weaning phase of bypass, when initially low reperfusion flow rates, and consequently low shear stresses, may promote, particularly in lungs, both L-selectinmediated rolling23 and subsequent integrin-mediated firm adhesion.24
Interpretation of Results
The two major findings of this
study are that CPB is associated
with an upregulation of the neutrophil adhesion molecules CD11b and
CD11c and that hypothermia delays but does not prevent the increased
expression of these two integrin subunits.
The observation that CD11a expression did not change significantly during or after CPB has been made previously in a simulated extracorporeal circuit25 and is not surprising, since CD11a is involved primarily in the adhesion of lymphocytes,26 as evidenced by the efficacy of monoclonal antibodies against CD11a in preventing allograft rejection.27 Conversely, CD11a plays a more limited role in the adhesion of activated neutrophils, which is consistent with our findings and is further supported by the previous observation that anti-CD11a monoclonal antibodies are unable to block neutrophil adhesion.28 The early and marked upregulation of CD11b after the institution of bypass supports similar findings previously made in humans29 30 and could be equally predicted from the capacity of this integrin determinant to be strongly expressed in response to inflammatory mediators like the complement-derived anaphylatoxin C5a,29 platelet-activating factor,31 leukotriene B4,23 and interleukin-8,32 all of which have been identified in circulating blood during clinical bypass.33 34 Our finding that CD11c was also upregulated, although to a lesser extent, during bypass is consistent with the translocation of this adherence receptor from intracellular pools to the cell surface in response to the same stimuli as CD11b.16 The finding that peak expression of CD11b and CD11c occurred shortly after the onset of bypass makes it unlikely that between-group differences may have been biased by the slightly (although not significantly) longer bypass times associated with hypothermic perfusion.
In vitro, upregulation of CD11b is paralleled by a downregulation of L-selectin of similar magnitude.18 19 20 This pattern was not found in the present study, in which L-selectin expression remained unchanged throughout the observation period in the two groups. A likely explanation for this discrepancy is that loss of L-selectin has been observed in neutrophils that had actually extravasated in interstitial tissue.18 This population of cells is obviously missed by flow cytometric analysis of circulating blood elements. Finn and coworkers25 similarly reported that after 2 hours of bypass in a mock extracorporeal circuit, more than half the neutrophils still had normal expression of L-selectin together with a greatly increased expression of CD11b/CD18. In any case, the lack of significant changes in L-selectin expression does not argue against the occurrence of neutrophil adhesion during bypass, since, in vivo, the concentration of interleukin-8 required to cause neutrophil margination in the lungs is much lower than that required for inducing shedding of L-selectin.35
The use of hypothermia significantly reduced the expression of CD11b and CD11c during bypass compared with normothermia. This result is in keeping with the previously documented effect of temperature on complement activation4 5 and on the expression of neutrophil cell-surface receptors in response to complement-activated products.4 However, the present study also shows that hypothermia was unable to prevent a postbypass increase in the expression of CD11b and CD11c, so that 30 minutes after the end of bypass, mean fluorescence values yielded by these two integrin determinants were no longer significantly different between the warm and cold groups. Similar observations have been made in a mock circuit by Elliott and Finn,7 who reported upregulation of expression of CD11b/CD18 by rewarming from hypothermic bypass conditions. Put together, these data suggest that the rewarming phase that precedes discontinuation of bypass is probably sufficient to elicit an upregulation of neutrophil adhesion molecules. This hypothesis is in agreement with the observation that hypothermia during bypass prevents leukocytosis as long as it is maintained but that white blood cell counts sharply increase when the body temperature is restored to 35°C to 36°C; the magnitude of postbypass leukocytosis is then equivalent to that seen after normothermic bypass.36 In a similar fashion, hypothermia has been shown to delay but not to significantly reduce the postbypass peak concentration of acute-phase reactants such as C-reactive protein.37 It is unlikely that in the present study, potential late differences between the cold and warm groups were missed, because data were not collected beyond 30 minutes after bypass, since it has been shown that CD11b values measured at this time point are similar to those measured 24 hours later.38
Furthermore, in the two groups, analysis of postbypass samples disclosed two populations of cells, one of which was weakly fluorescent for CD11b and/or CD11c, thereby reflecting the low expression of the corresponding epitopes. These cells are phenotypically similar to young cells released from the bone marrow,39 which largely account for the postbypass increase in white blood cell counts.36 The fact that this pattern of expression was equally distributed among warm and cold bypass patients is consistent with the previously mentioned observation that the magnitude of postbypass leukocytosis is unaffected by the temperature that has prevailed during the preceding period of extracorporeal circulation.
Clinical Implications
In this study, the postoperative
clinical outcomes were not
different between the two patient groups. In particular, the times to
extubation were similar (17±2 and 15±3 hours in warm and cold
bypass
patients, respectively). This result is consistent with the
observation that although the kinetics of changes in the expression of
CD11b and CD11c were different between the two groups, the ultimate
extent of these changes was similar in warm and cold bypass patients.
That the upregulation of these two integrins was not reflected by the
occurrence of adverse postoperative events could simply be due to the
small size of our patient population and/or the use of poorly sensitive
clinical end points, and we acknowledge that it does not exclude the
possibility that normothermically perfused tissues may have
incurred a greater degree of subclinical damage due to their longer
exposure time to adhesion-promoting molecules. This hypothesis
tends to be supported by our previous findings that, compared with cold
bypass, warm bypass is associated with greater cytokine
production,6 subsequently higher circulating
levels of cytokine-induced endothelial
ligands (ICAM-1) for neutrophil adhesion receptors,40 and
greater release of elastase,40 a highly injurious
enzyme liberated by adhesion-promoted degranulation.9
Notwithstanding the putative protection afforded by hypothermia with
regard to delaying the expression of neutrophil integrins during CPB,
several experimental studies reasonably allow the implication of these
molecules in the pathogenesis of postbypass inflammatory damage,
in particular in lungs, in which neutrophil sequestration correlates
with increased expression of CD18 on these cells,41 but
also in the heart itself. Consequently, benefits should reasonably be
expected from appropriate pharmacological blockade of neutrophil
integrin expression. This hypothesis is supported by the observation
that monoclonal antibodies against the common ß-subunit of
integrins (anti-CD18) reduce myocardial stunning in a rabbit model of
heterotopic heart transplantation.42 Likewise, new
anti-inflammatory drugs that inhibit integrin upregulation (leumedins)
have been shown to improve the recovery of both cardiac43
and pulmonary44 function in pig models of CPB. Of
greater clinical relevance are the recent reports that
glucocorticoids38 and the adenosine-regulating
agent acadesine45 can blunt CD11b/CD18 expression in
patients undergoing open-heart operations, an effect probably
mediated by a reduced cytokine release and an increased
accumulation of endogenous adenosine (a known
inhibitor of neutrophil adhesion), respectively. The
rationale for this type of intervention is reinforced by the results of
the present study, which, by demonstrating that neutrophil integrin
upregulation occurs during clinical bypass regardless of the
temperature of the systemic perfusate, supports the idea that these
adhesion molecules would constitute logical targets for therapeutic
interventions designed to attenuate the deleterious effects of
extracorporeal circulation.
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