Excessive in vitro bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced production of monokines in cirrhosis
| Autor: | Jacques Devière, Jean Content, Chantal Denys, Paul Vandenbussche, Liliane Schandene, Joseph Wybran, Etienne Dupont |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Lipopolysaccharides
medicine.medical_specialty Peripheral blood mononuclear cell Liver Cirrhosis Alcoholic Internal medicine medicine Escherichia coli Humans Interleukin 6 Interleukin 5 Cells Cultured Hepatology biology business.industry Interleukin-6 Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Monokines Interleukin Interleukin-1 beta secretion Monokine Endotoxins Endocrinology Immunology biology.protein Leukocytes Mononuclear Cytokine secretion Tumor necrosis factor alpha business Interleukin-1 |
| Zdroj: | Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 11(4) |
| ISSN: | 0270-9139 |
| Popis: | The objective of this study was to analyze monokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. The capacity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and purified monocytes from these patients to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 1 beta, and interleukin 6 was investigated. Spontaneous production of tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 6 and interleukin 1 beta was similar in cirrhotic and healthy subjects, but serum levels of interleukin 6 (less than 2 U/ml vs. 9.5 +/- 3 U/ml) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (3.1 +/- 1.2 pg/ml vs. 12.0 +/- 1.2 pg/ml) were significantly higher in cirrhotic patients. However, peripheral blood mononuclear cells or purified monocytes from patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis, stimulated in vitro with Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide, displayed a marked increase of tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 1 beta and interleukin 6 secretions compared with healthy controls. A striking feature of this overproduction was its reversibility as assessed by allowing cells to rest in vitro without lipopolysaccharide for 1 to 7 days before stimulation. In such conditions, tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 6 secretions declined to levels present in healthy subjects in whom production remained stable, whereas interleukin 1 beta secretion markedly decreased in both groups to the point where no difference could be seen. This reversible oversecretion of cytokines after lipopolysaccharide stimulation, along with the lack of abnormality of spontaneous cytokine secretion, suggests that monocytes in these patients may have undergone an in vivo activation process analogous to a priming phenomenon. The in vitro activation with lipopolysaccharide may represent the correlate of in vivo endotoxemia observed during acute events such as sepsis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
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