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Contrasting effects of long-term treatment with IFN-gamma in endothelial cells: increase in IL-6 secretion versus
1Institute of Medical Microbiology, Eberhard-Karl-University of Tübingen, Germany. Stefan.Borgmann@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Abstract:
The benefit of neutrophil exclusion from type 1 T helper cell (TH1) inflammatory processes was demonstrated in clinical studies. Increased recruitment of lymphocytes and monocytes to endothelium and impaired recruitment of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) following interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) treatment were described. The present study demonstrates that a 24 h treatment with IFN-gamma increases interleukin (IL)-6 release but reduces IL-8 secretion of both untreated and of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-stimulated endothelial cells (ECs), favoring the attraction of lymphocytes but not of neutrophils. Alteration of cytokine release was accompanied by reduced basal and TNF-alpha-stimulated nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) and activator protein-1 (AP-1) activity. However, IFN-gamma application neither altered gene expression of both TNF-alpha receptors (p55 and p75) nor cellular density of TNF-alpha receptor-2 (p75). Therefore, immune-modulatory action of IFN-gamma seems to be mediated by signal transduction molecules.
