Several lines of evidence suggest that the lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic disease. From a pathophysiological point of view the enzyme bound to apolipoprotein-B-containing lipoproteins (which corresponds to more than 90% of plasma enzymatic activity) may play a proatherogenic role since it generates lysophosphatidy...

A rterial inflammation is the principal driving force responsible for atherosclerotic plaque development and destabilization. There is strong evidence that this inflammation is induced by the retention and oxidation of low-density lipo-protein (LDL) in the subendothelial space. Oxidized LDL is cytotoxic and may induce inflammation by causing arterial cell injury and by recruiting oxidized LDL-s...

Exposure of bovine neutrophils to Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin (LKT) stimulates the production of leukotriene B4 (LTB4), which is believed to be an important chemotactic agent in the development of acute fibrinopurulent pneumonic infection in cattle. The involvement of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in LKT-induced synthesis of LTB4 was studied by using bovine neutrophils labeled with 3H-arachido...

We measured calcium-dependent phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity and immunoreactive group II PLA2 levels of 54 normal discs obtained from cadavers and 73 disc samples surgically obtained from patients with spinal disorders, including intervertebral disc herniations, spondylosis, and spondylolisthesis. Both cadaveric and surgical disc specimens contained about two-fold greater PLA2 activity than t...

It has been demonstrated recently that rabbit renal proximal tubule cells (RPTC) express a novel Ca -independent phospholipase A2 (iPLA2) whose activity localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER-iPLA2) and is similar to group VIB PLA2. In this study, the expression of group VIB PLA2 was examined and the role of ER-iPLA2 in cisplatin-induced apoptosis was determined. Cisplatin induced both time...

Lipid peroxidation products are known to cause toxicity by reacting with biologically significant proteins, but the inducing role of peroxidation products has been not noted to produce degenerative disease-related eicosanoids. Here, 9-oxononanoic acid (9-ONA), one of the major products of peroxidized fatty acids, was found to stimulate the activity of phospholipase A2 (PLA2), the key enzyme to ...

Remarkably elevated levels of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) are measurable in human blood samples in cases of acute pancreatitis. The source of the enzyme was first thought to be exclusively the pancreas, but now it is generally accepted that two isoenzymes--the pancreatic PLA2, group I, and the extrapancreatic PLA2, group II--contribute to the raised activity. In contrast to the group II-PLA2, the p...

Several phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activities have been identified in rat lung homogenate and shown to be important in metabolism of lung phospholipids. One PLA2 activity is Ca(2+)-independent, active in vitro at pH 4, and inhibited by a substrate analogue, 1-hexadecyl-3-trifluoroethylglycero-sn-2-phosphomethanol (MJ33). Purification of this rat lung PLA2 by approx. 550-fold was carried out by seq...

The selectivity of the intracellular 85 kDa phospholipase A2 (PLA2-85) towards fatty acids closely related to arachidonic acid has been investigated, using purified PLA2-85 from J774 cells and mixed phospholipids, dually acyl-chain-labelled in the sn-2 position. In parallel experiments, we assessed the acyl-chain selectivity of the release process in intact, dually labelled, peritoneal mouse ma...

The aim of this study is to find out the neuroprotective mechanism of lidocaine in epidural haematoma (EDH) in moderate brain injury. The effects are measured by the level of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and phospholipase A2 (PLA2). This study is done in forty epidural haematoma patients with moderate brain injury. The objects are divided into two groups, group A with NaCl 0.9% infusion only (control) ...