Fig. 7.
MCP-1–induced MonoMac6 cells chemotaxis or transendothelial migration are sensitive to SAPK pharmacologic inhibitors and to PTX.
[3H]-methyl thymidine labeled MonoMac6 cells were washed and pretreated for 2 hours with 40 μM of PD98059, SB203580, or SB202190, 4 hours with 10 μg/mL cholera toxin (CTX) or 16 hours with 100 ng/mL pertussis toxin (PTX) before being tested for their ability to migrate across fibronectin (▩) or TNF-α–activated HUVECs (▨) toward 6 nM MCP-1. Migrated cells, collected after 4 hours in the lower reservoir, were counted by liquid scintillation as described in “Materials and methods.” Results are presented as means ± SD of triplicate samples from 5 separate experiments.