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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on January 16, 2003; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-09-2853.
HEMOSTASIS, THROMBOSIS, AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
From the Institute of Environmental Medicine,
Department of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Department of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA; and the Department of Physiology, Louisiana State
University, Shreveport, LA.
Drug targeting to a highly expressed, noninternalizable
determinant up-regulated on the perturbed endothelium may help to manage inflammation and thrombosis. We tested whether inter-cellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) targeting is suitable to deliver antithrombotic drugs to the pulmonary vascular lumen. ICAM-1 antibodies bind to the surface of endothelial cells in culture, in perfused lungs,
and in vivo. Proinflammatory cytokines enhance anti-ICAM binding to the
endothelium without inducing internalization. 125I-labeled
anti-ICAM and a reporter enzyme ( Thrombosis and inflammation are often intertwined
processes that contribute to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In many cases, the pulmonary vasculature is the major site of
vascular inflammation and thrombosis, and considerable efforts have
been expended to develop strategies to target drugs to this site.
Yet current methods to manage inflammation-related thrombosis remain suboptimal.1-3 For example, targeting fibrin and activated
platelets promotes the delivery of antithrombotic agents to
existing blood clots, for example, in coronary vessels.4,5
However, targeting components of preformed clots has afforded only
modest improvements in experimental models, likely due to limited
penetration,6 and such clot-targeting strategies are
unlikely to be useful for thromboprophylaxis.
Targeted delivery of antithrombotic drugs to the vascular lumen,
including those involved by inflammation, prior to clot formation may
permit thromboprophylaxis in patients with a high propensity for
thrombosis. Theoretically, overexpression of certain antithrombotic proteins by vascular endothelial cells themselves would help to achieve
this goal.7-9 However, gene therapies currently are not suitable to manage acute conditions.10
Immunotargeting of therapeutic proteins may provide a complementary
strategy suitable for more immediate interventions. Antibodies to
diverse determinants are being explored as affinity carriers for drug
targeting to endothelium.11-15 A poorly internalizable, high-density, and stably exposed determinant on the endothelial surface, up-regulated and functionally involved in vascular thrombosis and inflammation, would provide an ideal target for antithrombotic proteins. Previous data indirectly suggest that inter-cellular adhesion
molecule-1 (ICAM) may provide such a target to deliver anti-inflammatory and, perhaps, antithrombotic
agents.16-20 However, neither the endothelial
internalization of ICAM antibodies (anti-ICAM) nor the tissue
distribution, localization, activity, and effects of
ICAM-targeted therapeutics have been characterized.
In this work we studied ICAM-directed immunotargeting to endothelium in
cell cultures, perfused lungs, and animals, and found that (1)
anti-ICAM is not internalized efficiently by the endothelium, (2)
cytokine up-regulation of ICAM expression augments surface targeting,
but not internalization, of anti-ICAM, (3) anti-ICAM can be used to
produce either internalizable (100-200 nm diameter) or
noninternalizable (approximately 1 µm) conjugates, and (4) ICAM
targeting delivers active tPA to the pulmonary vascular lumen and
facilitates intravascular fibrinolysis.
The materials used were Na125I and
Na131I from Perkin-Elmer (Boston, MA), iodogen,
streptavidin (SA), and 6-biotinylaminocaproic acid N-hydroxysuccinimide
ester from Pierce (Rockford, IL), human recombinant tPA from Genentech
(San Francisco, CA), Conjugation and size determination
Cell culture experiments
Suspended control or TNF Cellular localization of anti-ICAM was visualized using
immunofluorescence at magnification × 60 or × 40. TNF Experiments in isolated perfused rat lungs (IPL) Lungs were isolated from anesthetized male 170-200 g Sprague-Dawley rats following protocols approved by the University of Pennsylvania Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and were ventilated and perfused for 1 hour at 37°C or 4°C with Krebs ringer buffer (KRB)-BSA buffer containing 125I-labeled antibodies (1 µg, unless indicated otherwise), followed by nonrecirculating perfusion with KRB-BSA, as described.29,30 In separate experiments, 100 µg nonradiolabeled, biotinylated anti-ICAM or anti-ACE was perfused for 1 hour at 37°C. 125I-labeled streptavidin (125I-SA) was added to the perfusate immediately after washing the unbound antibody or after an additional 60 minutes of nonrecycling perfusion to measure surface-accessible b-anti-ICAM.125I-anti-ICAM biodistribution in rats Anesthetized rats and mice were killed 1 hour after a tail-vein injection of a mixture of 125I-anti-ICAM and 131I-IgG (10 µg each), and the radioactivity in blood and major organs (washed with saline, blotted dry, and weighed) was measured to calculate the parameters of targeting: percent of injected dose per organ (%ID) or per gram (%ID/g), organ-to-blood ratio (localization ratio, LR), and immunospecificity index (ISI) (see Murciano et al29 and Danilov et al31 for details).Biodistribution and tissue localization of anti-ICAM and
anti-ICAM/  -Gal 1 hour after the tail-vein injection of 100 µg
conjugate in BALB/c mice was visualized by histological analysis of
X-Gal staining in the tissues, as described previously for
anti-PECAM/-Gal conjugate.26 In a similar experiment,
lungs were processed for electron microscopy and developed using a
gold-conjugated secondary antibody, as described.26
Characterization of tPA activity in lung tissue Anti-ICAM/tPA conjugate or control preparations (IgG/tPA and tPA) were perfused in IPL for 1 hour; unbound materials were eliminated by a 5-minute nonrecycling perfusion. In one series, lungs were perfused with 3 µg 125I-labeled tPA conjugated to either anti-ICAM or IgG, and the radioactivity was measured. In the next series, aliquots of lung homogenates obtained after perfusion of 100 µg of unlabeled tPA conjugates were added to 125I-labeled fibrin clots, formed as described previously,30 and the release of 125Iodine into the supernatant at 37°C was measured. In the next series, 750 µL of a 0.4 mM/L solution of a chromogenic tPA substrate was infused into the lung via the pulmonary artery for 20 minutes, and the optical density at 405 nm in the outflow perfusate was measured. In the last series, a suspension of 125I-labeled fibrin microemboli (125I-ME, 3-10 micron diameter), prepared as described previously,32 was infused into the common pulmonary artery after perfusion with either anti-ICAM/tPA or IgG/tPA. 125I-ME lodge and degrade slowly in intact isolated perfused rat lungs.30 The lungs were perfused for 1 hour with buffer containing 20% plasma as a source of plasminogen, and the residual radioactivity in the lungs was measured.Statistics A t test or a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) (SigmaStat 2.0) was used to determine statistically significant differences (P < .05) between groups. Post hoc testing was performed with Fisher Least Square difference test. Data are shown as mean ± SEM unless otherwise stated.
Endothelial cells internalize anti-ICAM inefficiently 125I-anti-ICAM, but not control IgG, bound specifically to unstimulated endothelial cells (HUVECs) (Figure 1A). Eighty-five percent of the 125I-anti-ICAM bound to cells at 37°C was eluted by glycine one hour later, compared with 90%-95% bound at 4°C (not shown). Consistent with this, approximately 10% of bound anti-ICAM was internalized by 60 minutes at 37°C versus approximately 60% of 125I-anti-ACE and 125I-anti-TM (Figure 1B). Therefore, resting endothelial cells internalize anti-ICAM inefficiently, leaving approximately 90% of the antibody on the cell surface.
Anti-ICAM uptake in the perfused rat lungs (IPL) We then asked whether anti-ICAM was handled similarly by intact vascular endothelium under flow. Rat IPLs were perfused with 125I-anti-ICAM or control 125I-IgG in a blood-free buffer. 125I-anti-ICAM bound specifically to the lungs (Figure 2A), reaching saturation at approximately 10 µg per gram of tissue. Scatchard analysis (inset) revealed that rat lungs contain approximately 5 × 1013 anti-ICAM binding sites per gram (approximately 1.5-2.5 × 105 binding sites per endothelial cell).
We then examined the internalization of anti-ICAM and anti-ACE in IPL. Pulmonary uptake of 125I-anti-ACE was markedly lower at 6°C than at 37°C, likely due to inhibition of the energy-dependent uptake of antibody. In contrast, practically the same uptake of 125I-anti-ICAM was seen at 6°C and at 37°C (Figure 2B). This result reflects minor, if any, contribution of an energy-dependent internalization pathway for anti-ICAM in IPL. The IPL setting permits sequential perfusion of 125I-SA immediately or 1 hour after biotinylated antibodies, to test the accessibility of endothelium-bound antibodies to the circulation. Binding of 125I-SA in the lungs was reduced by 70% when biotinylated anti-ACE was allowed to remain in the vasculature for 1 hour at 37°C, indicating antibody disappearance from the lumen. In contrast, binding of 125I-SA after perfusion of biotinylated anti-ICAM did not diminish with time, indicating that the endothelium-bound anti-ICAM remains accessible from the lumen at 37°C (Figure 2C). Therefore, pulmonary endothelium under flow conditions avidly binds but internalizes anti-ICAM poorly. TNF  augmented anti-ICAM binding to HUVECs but inhibited anti-TM
binding, while REN cells, which do not express thrombomodulin, bound
anti-ICAM constitutively at a relatively high level that was augmented
further by TNF (FACS analysis, Figure
3A).
FACS results were confirmed by 125Iodine tracing studies
using HUVEC monolayers. TNF These radiotracer data showing minimal (no more than 10%)
internalization of anti-ICAM by cytokine-stimulated cells were
confirmed by immunofluorescence microscopy. Figure 3C shows typical
images of TNF Biodistribution of radiolabeled anti-ICAM in vivo 125I-anti-ICAM, but not 131I-IgG, accumulated in the lungs after intravenous injection in rats (Figure 4) and in mice (not shown). Significant uptake also was seen in the liver and spleen, but anti-ICAM uptake per gram of tissue was always greatest in the lungs. Pulmonary uptake of anti-ICAM was 20%-30% lower after intra-arterial injection (not shown).
We analyzed the specificity of anti-ICAM targeting to pulmonary tissue. In rats, the pulmonary uptake of 125I-anti-ICAM was approximately 17% ID/g (Figure 4A), an immunospecificity index (ISI%ID/g, ratio of %ID/g of anti-ICAM to that of IgG) of approximately 25, 10-fold higher than that in the liver and spleen (Figure 4B). The blood level of anti-ICAM was lower than that of control IgG, likely due to depletion of the circulating pool. The anti-ICAM pulmonary localization ratio (LR, tissue-to-blood ratio) was approximately 50 (Figure 4C), while the IgG LR was approximately 0.2. Therefore, the pulmonary ISILR calculated using anti-ICAM and IgG LR, thereby correcting for the blood level, was approximately 250 (Figure 4D). Effects of proinflammatory challenges on anti-ICAM targeting Endotoxin facilitated pulmonary uptake of 125I-anti-ICAM, likely due to up-regulation of endothelial ICAM in response to cytokines. In rats, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) caused a 30% increase in the pulmonary uptake of 125I-anti-ICAM (Figure 5), with a concomitant reduction in the blood level (pulmonary LR almost doubled from 50 to 85). In contrast, LPS suppressed pulmonary uptake of 125I-anti-ACE in rats by 50% (pulmonary LR reduced from 14 to 7). Therefore, anti-ICAM targeting in LPS-treated rats was 10 times more robust than that of anti-ACE (LR 85 vs 7). Pulmonary targeting of 125I-anti-ICAM was stably enhanced at 5 and 24 hours after LPS injection (LR 77 and 85). A similar elevation of 125I-anti-ICAM pulmonary targeting was seen in LPS-treated mice (not shown). The 125I-anti-ICAM pulmonary uptake was doubled in mice exposed to 98% O2 atmosphere, in contrast with a 50% decrease in the 125I-anti-TM uptake (not shown). Therefore, proinflammatory factors suppress anti-ACE and anti-TM but augment anti-ICAM targeting.
Visualization of ICAM-directed vascular immunotargeting in animals We visualized the pulmonary localization of anti-ICAM in mice by electron microscopy. Specific binding of the secondary gold-labeled antibody was evident in lungs harvested 4 hours after anti-ICAM injection (Figure 6A). Semiquantitative analysis after anti-ICAM injection revealed 16 ± 3 endothelium-associated particles/field versus 3 ± 1 particles/field associated with alveolar epithelium and interstitium (M ± SEM, 10 fields). Anti-ICAM was primarily localized along the luminal surface of the endothelium (arrows in Figure 6Ai). Noteworthy, we did not see endocytic vacuoles containing gold particles, the hallmark of endothelial uptake of internalizable conjugates in the lungs.26
To test whether anti-ICAM delivers an active enzyme cargo to
endothelium, we conjugated a reporter enzyme, However, injection of anti-ICAM/ Effect of anti-ICAM conjugate size on endothelial internalization Streptavidin was cross-linked to biotinylated anti-ICAM and biotinylated tPA at varying molar ratios of reactants, as previously studied with other proteins.25-27 Analysis using dynamic light scattering analysis showed that conjugates ranging in size from 100 nm to several microns were generated, depending on the molar ratio between SA and biotinylated anti-ICAM (Figure 7A). Double staining of fluorescent-labeled anti-ICAM conjugates revealed that rat microvascular endothelial cells internalized those anti-ICAM conjugates having a diameter of 100-200 nm but did not internalize large conjugates around 1 µm (Figure 7B). In fact, after a 1-hour incubation at 37°C, the large, 1-2 micron double-labeled anti-ICAM conjugates (the preparation that corresponds to the peak farthest to the right in Figure 7A) decorated the entire cell surface (Figure 7C). Control IgG conjugates did not bind to endothelium irrespective of size and did not accumulate in the isolated rat lungs (not shown).
ICAM-directed targeting of tPA to the pulmonary vasculature We then tested whether anti-ICAM would target an antithrombotic drug to sites of inflammation susceptible to thrombosis. To do so, we prepared large (approximately 1 µm), poorly internalizable anti-ICAM/125I-tPA and IgG/125I-tPA conjugates. One hour after intravenous injection, 7% of the injected anti-ICAM/125I-tPA had accumulated in the rat lungs, compared with less than 0.3% for IgG/125I-tPA (Figure 8A), a pulmonary ISI%ID/g of 25 (Figure 8B). The blood level of anti-ICAM/125I-tPA showed a corresponding decrease compared to IgG/125I-tPA. Therefore, the pulmonary LR of anti-ICAM/125I-tPA exceeded 20 (Figure 8C), with a calculated ISILR of approximately 80 (Figure 8D). Anti-ICAM/125I-tPA was retained in the lungs for at least several hours after injection (not shown). Similar results were obtained in mice (not shown).
Anti-ICAM/tPA bound to the pulmonary endothelium surface retains plasminogen activity and dissolves intravascular clots To test whether anti-ICAM can be used to deliver enzymatically active tPA to the endothelial lumen, we perfused anti-ICAM/tPA or IgG/tPA in IPL. In all experiments, the vasculature was washed free of unbound conjugates prior to measuring tPA uptake and activity. Anti-ICAM but not the control IgG carriage led to pulmonary accumulation of 125I-tPA (Figure 9A).
Aliquots of lung homogenates obtained after perfusion of anti-ICAM/tPA or IgG/tPA were then incubated with 125I-fibrin clots at 37°C in vitro. Homogenates of lungs perfused with anti-ICAM/tPA caused 10-fold more fibrinolysis, measured by release of 125I, than lungs perfused with IgG/tPA (Figure 9B). We then infused a chromogenic tPA substrate into IPL. Enzymatic conversion of the substrate leading to appearance of a colored product was detected in the perfusate outflow of lungs preperfused with anti-ICAM/tPA but not those preperfused with IgG/tPA (Figure 9C). Therefore, the anti-ICAM/tPA associated with the luminal surface of the pulmonary endothelium retains its enzymatic activity. Accessibility to a small synthetic substrate (mol wt < 500 D) does not prove that the anti-ICAM/tPA is accessible to convert its protein substrate, plasminogen. To examine this issue, a suspension of 125I-microemboli was infused into the pulmonary artery 1 hour after perfusion with either anti-ICAM/tPA or IgG/tPA. The radioactivity in the lungs was determined 1 hour later as a measure of residual unlysed fibrin clots. Lungs preperfused with anti-ICAM/tPA practically completely dissolved the radiolabeled fibrin clots, whereas fibrinolysis in the lungs perfused with IgG/tPA did not differ significantly from the basal level measured in control lungs (Figure 9D). Therefore, anti-ICAM/tPA accumulates in the lungs, resides in enzymatically active form on the luminal endothelial surface, and thereby markedly facilitates fibrinolysis in the pulmonary vasculature.
Drug targeting and concurrent blocking of a noninternalized highly expressed pro-inflammatory determinant expressed on the endothelial lumen that is stably up-regulated in the perturbed vasculature may provide a specific and powerful approach for treatment and prophylaxis of vascular inflammation and thrombosis. Our data indicate that ICAM-1 (CD54) fulfills the criteria of an "ideal" target for this specific goal and that anti-ICAM may be used for vascular immunotargeting of antithrombotic drugs. Static human endothelial cells cultured under sterile conditions constitutively express relatively modest levels of ICAM-1 (Figure 1). However, the level of expression is much higher in vivo,34 and anti-ICAM binds to the resting endothelium in intact animals.20,34 Diverse cell types express ICAM-1, but the largest fraction directly accessible to the bloodstream is exposed on the endothelial surface.34 This fact explains anti-ICAM targeting in vascularized organs (Figures 2 and 4) and confinement of the targeted cargoes to the vascular lumen (Figures 2, 6, and 9). The pulmonary vasculature is the first major capillary network encountered by intravenously injected antibodies, contains roughly one-third of the endothelium in the body, is exposed to the entire cardiac output of venous blood, and, therefore, comprises the preferred target for affinity carriers recognizing pan-endothelial determinants.28,31 Importantly, pulmonary uptake of anti-ICAM and anti-ICAM conjugates is not due to a nonspecific binding or mechanical retention in the vasculature, as control IgG counterparts neither bound to HUVECs nor accumulated in the lungs. In fact, the immunospecificity of the anti-ICAM and anti-ICAM/tPA conjugate pulmonary accumulation in normal rats approaches values of 250 and 50, respectively (Figures 4 and 8). Analysis of the quantitative binding data obtained in rat lungs (Figure 2) indicates that binding of approximately 5-50 mg anti-ICAM can be expected in the human pulmonary vasculature. Thus, anti-ICAM carriers are likely to provide robust and preferential targeting to the pulmonary endothelium in intact animals, matching the characteristics of the best candidate carriers tested to date, including antibodies directed against PECAM, ACE, and a caveoli-associated antigen gp90.15,24,28,31,33 Certain pathological conditions suppress targeting to other constitutive endothelial determinants, such as thrombomodulin and ACE.18,35,36 For example, endotoxin inhibits anti-ACE targeting in rats by 50% (Figure 5). In contrast, cytokines, oxidants, abnormal shear stress, and thrombin37 are all known to enhance endothelial ICAM-1 expression34,38 and augment anti-ICAM vascular targeting in vivo.16,20 Up-regulation of endothelial ICAM-1 expression by thrombin37 also makes it a preferred candidate for delivering antithrombotic agents. Our data extend these observations and reveal that (1) cytokine stimulation does not augment anti-ICAM internalization (Figure 3) and (2) pulmonary targeting of anti-ICAM is stably augmented in models of proinflammatory challenge in vivo (eg, Figure 5). This feature distinguishes targeting ICAM from targeting selectins, which are only transiently exposed on the perturbed endothelium.39 Antibodies and conjugates may unintentionally suppress important functions of endothelial proteins with potentially deleterious consequences (eg, thrombosis), making them less suitable for the therapeutic targeting.40 ICAM-1, a counter-receptor for leukocyte integrins, supports cell adhesion on endothelium.34,41 Because anti-ICAM suppresses inflammation by blocking leukocyte adhesion,34,38,41-44 drug targeting to endothelial ICAM-1 is unlikely to have unintended deleterious effects on the host and, indeed, may provide secondary therapeutic benefits against inflammation, thrombosis, and oxidative stress. This feature of anti-ICAM conjugates deserves additional investigation. Published studies on anti-ICAM internalization have yielded inconsistent results: epithelial and blood cells have been reported to internalize ICAM ligands in vitro,45,46 but fragmentary data in other cell types showed the opposite outcome.47,48 Our studies in cell culture, perfused rat lungs, and in animals show that endothelial cells internalize ICAM antibodies poorly (Figures 1, 2, 3, and 6). Thus, ICAM seems to be well suited for drug targeting to the luminal surface. This feature distinguishes ICAM from other similarly prevalent endothelial determinants, all of which are rapidly internalized, including thrombomodulin and ACE (Figures 1 and 2), selectins,47-50 and caveoli-associated antigens.15 A monoclonal antibody against gp85 antigen accumulates in the rat lungs and is not internalized and therefore can be used for surface targeting in this species,29 but the identity, function, and regulation of its human counterpart are not known. The uptake of anti-ICAM conjugates is modified by their size: endothelium internalizes conjugates with a mean diameter of 100-200 nm, but not anti-ICAM conjugates larger than 1 µm (Figure 7). This result indicates that anti-ICAM follows the paradigm observed previously with antibodies directed against another noninternalizable determinant, PECAM-1.26-28 Conjugate size can be readily and stably modulated by varying the molar ratios of the reactants, as measured by dynamic light scattering (Figure 7). In theory, therefore, anti-ICAM represents a carrier that can be modified to facilitate drug delivery to either the endothelial surface (using monomolecular conjugates or conjugates larger than 500 nm) or to the intracellular compartment (using 100-300 nm conjugates). The anti-ICAM/tPA conjugates used in the present study were around 1 µm in size, which exceeds the effective internalizable size. Clearly, anti-ICAM/tPA bound along the cell surface retains enzymatic activity in the pulmonary vascular lumen and augments intravascular fibrinolysis (Figure 9). This result serves as a proof-of-principle that ICAM represents a suitable target to deliver antithrombotic agents to the endothelial lumen. Although anti-ICAM/tPA conjugate itself may represent a useful agent, we anticipate that the strategy can be further optimized by generation of a monomolecular noninternalizable anti-ICAM/tPA fusion protein. To our knowledge this is the first study showing that fibrinolytic agents can be used in a prophylactic mode to protect vital vascular beds, including those in the lungs. Patients are at high risk to develop pulmonary emboli after trauma: (1) when extensive proximal deep venous thrombi are present; (2) after recent pulmonary emboli; (3) in the setting serious respiratory compromise due to diverse cardiopulmonary disease; or (4) when the risk of bleeding after systemic anticoagulation is prohibitive.1,2 Our data suggest that targeted delivery of antithrombotic agents to the pulmonary endothelium itself may be a suitable alternative in some of these settings, although additional studies will be needed to establish the duration and extent of fibrinolytic activity that is delivered. In summary, ICAM possesses a number of highly desirable characteristics as a target for antithrombotic and anti-inflammatory drug delivery. Anti-ICAM targeting may allow a spectrum of novel therapeutic approaches, for example, a strategy to facilitate the antithrombotic potential of the pulmonary vasculature in patients at high risk to develop acute lung injury (ALI/ARDS) and thromboembolism. Future studies in larger animals will define potential therapeutic applicability and limitations of this strategy.
The authors appreciate the gift of anti-ACE from Dr S. Danilov (University of Illinois in Chicago) and anti-TM from Drs C. Esmon (Oklahoma Medial Research Foundation) and S. Kennel (National Oakridge Laboratory).
Submitted September 18, 2002; accepted January 7, 2003.
Prepublished online as Blood First Edition Paper, January 16, 2003; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-09-2853.
Supported by NIH SCOR in Acute Lung Injury (NHLBI HL 60290, Project 4, NHLBI RO1 HL/GM 71175-01) and a Department of Defense Grant (PR 012262) to V.R.M., grants HL60169 and R03 TW01468 to D.B.C., a fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) to J.-C.M., and Fundación Ramón Areces (Spain) (S.M.). M.C.-S. was supported in part by the American Heart Association.
The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. Therefore, and solely to indicate this fact, this article is hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. section 1734.
Presented in part as posters at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Meeting, May 5-10, 2000, Toronto, ON, Canada. Reprints: Vladimir Muzykantov, Institute for Environmental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, 1 John Morgan Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6068; e-mail: muzykant{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.
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Abstract
Introduction
) and in the
cell lysates (
). (B) Percent of internalization of
125I-labeled antibodies against ACE, TM, and ICAM-1 by
HUVECs at either 4°C (
) in the lungs. At 4°C, the pulmonary uptake of
125I-anti-ACE is inhibited, whereas the uptake of
125I-anti-ICAM is not affected (uptake at 4°C is shown
as percent of the 100% control value attained at 37°C). (C)
Disappearance of anti-ICAM (
) or
131I-IgG (
