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Interleukin-1 production by polymorphonuclear leukocytes during the course of acute inflammation in rabbits
1Department of Pathology, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
Abstract:
Inflammation-induced immune enhancement was observed when an antigen was introduced during an early period of casein-induced inflammation. An immune potentiation factor was detected at the early inflammatory site of mice and rabbits. This immune potentiation factor of rabbits was identified as interleukin-1 (IL-1) in respect of either its biologic activities or its molecular structure. Expression of IL-1 mRNA was observed only in peritoneal exudate cells from the early inflammatory site in parallel with the generation of the immune potentiation activity. The inflammation-induced immune potentiation was assumed to be mediated by newly synthesized IL-1 at the early inflammatory site. By using immunocytochemical staining, it was definitely proved with respect to a single cell level that the polymorphonuclear leukocytes were the major cells in synthesizing IL-1 at the casein-induced inflammation in rabbits.
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