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1Department of Medicine and Physical Therapy, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Japan.
Abstract:
It has been suggested that a variety of cytokines may play important roles in the regulation of immune and inflammatory responses in the lung. The purpose of this study was to determine whether interleukin 6 (IL-6) could affect the cell growth of human bronchial epithelial cells via a specific receptor for IL-6. Human recombinant IL-6 inhibited the cell proliferation in a dose-dependent manner. Binding assay with radiolabelled IL-6 demonstrated that human bronchial epithelial cells had specific receptors for IL-6. Moreover, Northern blot analysis using digoxigenin-labelled IL-6R mRNA expression in these cells. Interestingly, proinflammatory cytokines IL-1 alpha and IL-6 upregulated IL-6R mRNA levels. These results suggest that IL-6 may affect the functions of bronchial epithelial cells via a specific receptor, and that its activity on cells may be regulated at the level of receptor-cytokine binding.
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