Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a phospholipid mediator of inflammation with a wide range of biological activities, including the alteration of barrier function of endothelium. A biological assay combined with high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry showed that plasma and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) PAF levels in 20 patients with relapsing/remitting or secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were significantly higher than in healthy controls (plasma: 3.29 +/- 4.52 vs. 0.48 +/- 0.36 ng/ml, p < 0.002; CSF: 4.95 +/- 6.22 ng/ml vs. 0.01 +/- 0.04 ng/ml, p < 0.0001). Values were also significantly higher in relapsing/remitting than in secondary progressive (plasma: 5.10 +/- 4.97 vs. 0.52 +/- 0.85 ng/ml, p < 0.005; CSF: 8.59 +/- 6.39 vs. 0.55 +/- 0.68 ng/ml, p < 0.002). It was also found that both plasma (R-2: 0.65) and CSF (R-2: 0.72) levels were correlated with the MRI number of gadolinium enhancing lesions, which are markers of blood-brain barrier (BBB) injury, whereas their peaks were not correlated with the MRI number of white matter lesions, nor with the expanded disability status score (EDSS) according to Kurtze [Kurtze, J.F., 1983. Rating neurological impairment in multiple sclerosis: an expanded disability scale (EDSS). Neurology 33, 1444-1452]. Both plasma and CSF in patients with relapsing/remitting MS and marked gadolinium enhancement contained the two major molecular species of PAF: 1-0-hexadecyl- (C16:O) and 1-0-octadecyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (C18:O). The ratio of the two molecular species was different in the two biological fluids, being PAF C18:0 more abundant in CSF and PAF C16:0 in plasma, indicating a different cellular origin of PAF or different enzymatic processing. These findings suggest that PAF is a significant mediator of BBB injury in the early stages of MS, rather than a marker of its progression and severity. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Platelet activating factor is elevated in cerebral spinal fluid and plasma of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis / L. Callea, M. Arese, A. Orlandini, C. Bargnani, A. Priori, F. Bussolino. - In: JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY. - ISSN 0165-5728. - 94:1-2(1999), pp. 212-221.

Platelet activating factor is elevated in cerebral spinal fluid and plasma of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

A. Priori
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1999

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Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a phospholipid mediator of inflammation with a wide range of biological activities, including the alteration of barrier function of endothelium. A biological assay combined with high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry showed that plasma and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) PAF levels in 20 patients with relapsing/remitting or secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were significantly higher than in healthy controls (plasma: 3.29 +/- 4.52 vs. 0.48 +/- 0.36 ng/ml, p < 0.002; CSF: 4.95 +/- 6.22 ng/ml vs. 0.01 +/- 0.04 ng/ml, p < 0.0001). Values were also significantly higher in relapsing/remitting than in secondary progressive (plasma: 5.10 +/- 4.97 vs. 0.52 +/- 0.85 ng/ml, p < 0.005; CSF: 8.59 +/- 6.39 vs. 0.55 +/- 0.68 ng/ml, p < 0.002). It was also found that both plasma (R-2: 0.65) and CSF (R-2: 0.72) levels were correlated with the MRI number of gadolinium enhancing lesions, which are markers of blood-brain barrier (BBB) injury, whereas their peaks were not correlated with the MRI number of white matter lesions, nor with the expanded disability status score (EDSS) according to Kurtze [Kurtze, J.F., 1983. Rating neurological impairment in multiple sclerosis: an expanded disability scale (EDSS). Neurology 33, 1444-1452]. Both plasma and CSF in patients with relapsing/remitting MS and marked gadolinium enhancement contained the two major molecular species of PAF: 1-0-hexadecyl- (C16:O) and 1-0-octadecyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (C18:O). The ratio of the two molecular species was different in the two biological fluids, being PAF C18:0 more abundant in CSF and PAF C16:0 in plasma, indicating a different cellular origin of PAF or different enzymatic processing. These findings suggest that PAF is a significant mediator of BBB injury in the early stages of MS, rather than a marker of its progression and severity. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Blood-brain barrier; Multiple sclerosis; PAF
Settore MED/26 - Neurologia
1999
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