scholarly journals Monocyte-conditioned medium, interleukin-1, and tumor necrosis factor stimulate the acute phase response in human hepatoma cells in vitro.

1986 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
G J Darlington ◽  
D R Wilson ◽  
L B Lachman
Keyword(s):  
Acute Phase ◽  
Acute Phase Response ◽  
Tumor Necrosis ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
Phase Response ◽  
Human Hepatoma Cells ◽  
The Third ◽  
Necrosis Factor ◽  
Third Component Of Complement

Human hepatoma cells mimic the acute phase response after treatment with monocyte-conditioned medium. Levels of secreted fibrinogen, alpha-1 acid glycoprotein, C-reactive protein, haptoglobin, and the third component of complement were elevated compared with control levels after 48 h of incubation with conditioned supernatant medium from an enriched fraction of normal peripheral monocytes. Albumin levels declined and alpha-1 antitrypsin remained unchanged. Levels of specific mRNA were measured by hybridization to slot blots and Northern blots and changed in correspondence with protein alterations. Interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor stimulated the third component of complement, but did not elevate any other member of the acute phase group and were therefore only partially active in this system. The identification of an in vitro model of the human acute phase response will permit analysis of the molecular basis for coordinate regulation of this group of facultative genes.

Hormonal and metabolic response to recombinant human tumor necrosis factor in rat: in vitro and in vivo

1988 ◽  
Vol 255 (2) ◽  
pp. E206-E212
Author(s):  
R. S. Warren ◽  
H. F. Starnes ◽  
N. Alcock ◽  
S. Calvano ◽  
M. F. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Necrosis Factor ◽  
Trace Metal ◽  
Acute Phase ◽  
Acute Phase Response ◽  
Tumor Necrosis ◽  
Metabolic Response ◽  
Zinc Transport ◽  
Necrosis Factor

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF; cachectin) has been implicated as a mediator of the toxic manifestations of overwhelming bacterial infection as well as the chronic catabolic state of cancer cachexia. We have examined the acute metabolic and hormonal response after administration of recombinant human TNF in the rat. TNF given by intraperitoneal injection produced dose- and time-related increases in hepatic amino acid uptake, decreases in serum trace metal concentrations, and a pattern of endocrine hormone alterations characteristic of the acute phase response to tissue injury. In vitro zinc transport studies by rat hepatocytes cultured in the presence of TNF alone, or in combination with recombinant human interleukin 1, another mediator of the acute phase response, demonstrated that neither monokine was capable of directly stimulating zinc transport into cells. These findings suggest that TNF may function as an endogenous mediator of the early metabolic response to sepsis and that the trace metal changes induced by TNF in vivo may occur through a secondary mechanism.

Endotoxin-stimulated production of rat hypothalamic interleukin-1β in vivo and in vitro, measured by specific immunoradiometric assay

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Hagan ◽  
S Poole ◽  
A F Bristow
Keyword(s):  
Acute Phase ◽  
Acute Phase Response ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
Phase Response ◽  
Inflammatory Stimuli ◽  
Quantitative Immunoassay ◽  
Time Courses ◽  
A Site

ABSTRACT Regulation of a number of aspects of the acute-phase response, including induction of fever and activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis, occurs within the hypothalamus. The acute-phase response appears to be co-ordinated by the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1). A number of studies using hybridization techniques to measure IL-1 gene expression and immunocyto-chemistry to localize immunoactive IL-1 have established the concept that the central nervous system, and in particular the hypothalamus, is a site of IL-1 production, and that levels increase in response to inflammatory stimuli. In this report we present data on the levels of IL-1β produced in the rat hypothalamus using quantitative immunoassay techniques. Bacterial endotoxin, administered to rats in vivo, evoked increases in hypothalamic IL-1β levels which were significant within 1 h, and reached maximum levels at 5–10 h. The response to endotoxin was dose-related, and levels reached in hypothalamic extracts corresponded to intra-hypothalamic levels of the order of 20 ng/ml. During short-term in-vitro culture of rat hypothalami, endotoxin stimulated a dose-related increase in both the synthesis and the secretion of IL-1β, which reached similar levels to those seen after in-vivo stimulation. Hypothalami obtained from animals stimulated with endotoxin in vivo did not, however, show any evidence of persistent stimulation of IL-1β production when subsequently cultured in vitro. These data support the concept that production of hypothalamic IL-1 is an essential step in regulating the activity of the hypothalamus during the acute-phase response, and provide for the first time quantitative data on the magnitude, dose—response relationships and time-courses of rat hypothalamic IL-1β production in vivo and in vitro.

scholarly journals Tumor Necrosis Factor, Interleukin 6, and the Acute Phase Response Following Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. McCurry ◽  
Darrell A. Campbell ◽  
Wendy E. Scales ◽  
Jeffrey S. Warren ◽  
Daniel G. Remick
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Necrosis Factor ◽  
Acute Phase ◽  
Interleukin 6 ◽  
Acute Phase Response ◽  
Tumor Necrosis ◽  
Ischemia Reperfusion ◽  
Phase Response ◽  
Hepatic Ischemia ◽  
Hepatic Ischemia Reperfusion ◽  
Necrosis Factor

Prostaglandins E2 and F2α are not involved in the monocytic-product (interleukin-1)-induced stimulation of hepatic fibrinogen synthesis in rats

1988 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. W. M. Holtslag ◽  
H. J. Moshage ◽  
J. F. van Pelt ◽  
J. A. G. M. Kleuskens ◽  
F. W. J. Gribnau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Phase ◽  
Acute Phase Response ◽  
Second Messengers ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Phase Response ◽  
Mrna Content ◽  
Stimulation Of

1. Monocytic products, especially interleukin-1 (IL-1), play an important role in the acute-phase response. Prostaglandins have been shown to act as second messengers in several physiological alterations of the acute-phase response, such as fever, muscle wasting and immunoregulation. The present study was undertaken to determine the role of prostaglandins in the monocytic-product-induced stimulation of the hepatic synthesis of fibrinogen, a well-known acute-phase protein. 2. Prostaglandin (PG) E2, PGF2α and 16,16-dimethyl-PGE2 did not stimulate fibrinogen synthesis and fibrinogen polypeptide mRNA content when administered intraperitoneally to rats or when added to monolayer cultures of rat hepatocytes. 3. Cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors did not abolish the stimulation of fibrinogen synthesis and its mRNA content induced by monocytic products in vivo or in vitro. 4. These findings indicate that the enhanced synthesis of fibrinogen induced by monocytic products (including IL-1) during the acute-phase response is not mediated by prostaglandins or other products of the cyclo-oxygenase pathway of arachidonic acid.

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