Acute airsacculitis in turkeys inoculated with phorbol myristate acetate

M. D. Ficken From the Department of Food Animal and Equine Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 4700 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27606.

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H. J. Barnes From the Department of Food Animal and Equine Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 4700 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27606.

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Phorbol myristate acetate (pma), which induces acute pulmonary injury in mammals, induced acute airsacculitis in turkeys after intra-airsac inoculation of 0.1 mg/kg. Grossly, air sacs contained multifocal to diffuse hemorrhage and edema at postinoculation hours (pih) 3 and 6. Microscopically, there was multifocal congestion and small thrombocyte aggregates within small blood vessels by pih 0.5, with a few vessels containing small numbers of marginating heterophils. By pih 1.5, thrombocyte aggregates were larger and more numerous, and moderate numbers of heterophils were located perivascularly. Erythrocytes and proteinaceous fluid were in air sac interstitium. By pih 3 and 6, hemorrhage and exudation of proteinaceous fluid had increased, in some instances severely distending the air sac. Ultrastructurally, changes resulting from pma-induced injury were thrombocyte aggregation and degeneration, air sac epithelial cell vacuolation with separation of interdigitating cell processes, and endothelial cell vacuolar degeneration with loss of vascular integrity. Air sac lavage fluids had mildly increased total cell counts by pih 1.5, but values returned to baseline by the end of the experiment, indicating lack of cell exudation into the air sac lumen. Circulating leukocyte changes included transient lymphopenia at pih 3 and marked heterophilia at pih 6. These results indicate that thrombocytes and/or heterophils are central to the pathogenesis of injury induced in air sacs by pma and that the air sac responds differently to pma than to pathogenic bacteria.

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Phorbol myristate acetate (pma), which induces acute pulmonary injury in mammals, induced acute airsacculitis in turkeys after intra-airsac inoculation of 0.1 mg/kg. Grossly, air sacs contained multifocal to diffuse hemorrhage and edema at postinoculation hours (pih) 3 and 6. Microscopically, there was multifocal congestion and small thrombocyte aggregates within small blood vessels by pih 0.5, with a few vessels containing small numbers of marginating heterophils. By pih 1.5, thrombocyte aggregates were larger and more numerous, and moderate numbers of heterophils were located perivascularly. Erythrocytes and proteinaceous fluid were in air sac interstitium. By pih 3 and 6, hemorrhage and exudation of proteinaceous fluid had increased, in some instances severely distending the air sac. Ultrastructurally, changes resulting from pma-induced injury were thrombocyte aggregation and degeneration, air sac epithelial cell vacuolation with separation of interdigitating cell processes, and endothelial cell vacuolar degeneration with loss of vascular integrity. Air sac lavage fluids had mildly increased total cell counts by pih 1.5, but values returned to baseline by the end of the experiment, indicating lack of cell exudation into the air sac lumen. Circulating leukocyte changes included transient lymphopenia at pih 3 and marked heterophilia at pih 6. These results indicate that thrombocytes and/or heterophils are central to the pathogenesis of injury induced in air sacs by pma and that the air sac responds differently to pma than to pathogenic bacteria.

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