ISSN:
0886-1544
Keywords:
directional macrophage motility
;
electric fields
;
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Extracellularly applied electric fields (〈 12 V/cm) strongly influence murine resident peritoneal macrophages (Mø) to undergo directional protrusive pseudopodial activity to wards the positive pole of the electric fields in the absence of exogenously applied chemotactic ligands. Internal and external morphological features were not grossly disrupted by the fields. Directional motility induced by the electric fields was inhibited in the presence of 1.0 mM La3+ or 2.5 mM Mg2+ and 5.0 mM EGTA. Effects of the fields were latent in the inhibited cells and directional motility was expressed after termination of the field and removal of the inhibitors. Receptors for the lectins concanavalin A (Con A) and phytohemagglutinin (PHA-L) were uniformly distributed on the surfaces of Mø with no exposure to electric fields. After exposure to the fields, Con A receptors were preferentially distributed on regions of the Mø surface facing the negative pole and PHA-L receptors were preferentially distributed on those regions facing the positive pole. The possibility that directional Mø motility is regulated by the molecular topography of the cell surface is discussed.
Additional Material:
6 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cm.970020305
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