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G Zissel1, J Schlaak, M Schlaak

  • 1Research Centre Borstel, Department of Clinical Medicine, Germany.

European Cytokine Network
|January 1, 1996
PubMed

We evaluate the influence of IL-4, IL-10 and TGF-beta upon the release of IL-1 alpha, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and IL-6 by lipopolisaccharide (LPS, 1 microgram/ml) stimulated alveolar macrophages (AM). IL-4 reduced TNF-alpha release, in a dose dependent manner, to 62% and IL-1 alpha release to 42% of LPS-stimulated AM without IL-4. IL-6 release was also suppressed (61%), however, with a biphasic dose response curve. IL-10 suppressed LPS induced release of IL-alpha and TNF-alpha to approximately 50% of control without affecting IL-6 release. When used at high concentrations, TGF-beta achieved moderate reductions of TNF-alpha and IL-1 alpha release. Low concentrations of LPS (0.1 microgram/ml), allowed a dose-dependent TGF-beta-induced suppression of TNF-alpha-release to approximately 80% of control. The combinations of IL-4 and IL-10 was more effective in suppressing IL-6 release, although the suppression was only weak. Other combinations of cytokines revealed no synergistic inhibitory activities. Our data demonstrate that IL-1 alpha and TNF-alpha release by AMs is down regulated by IL-4, IL-10, and TGF-beta. IL-6 release, however, can only be suppressed to some extent by a combination of IL-4 and IL-10.

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