| Literature DB >> 2458043 |
A Suwabe1, K Takahashi, S Yasui, S Arai, F Sendo.
Abstract
The capacity of alveolar macrophages (AM) of bleomycin-instilled hamsters to proliferate mouse thymocytes (interleukin-1 activity) and hamster fibroblasts (fibroblast proliferation (FP) activity was studied. Using bleomycin-instilled hamsters, the FP activity of AM culture supernatants was increased significantly on days 1, 5, and 10 after instillation of bleomycin. The interleukin-1 (IL-1) activity, however, was increased significantly on day 1 only as compared with saline-treated hamsters. Next, normal AM were stimulated in vitro by bleomycin. After being fractionated by chromatography, their culture supernatant showed IL-1 activity, which also indicated FP activity. These results suggest that bleomycin directly stimulates AM to release IL-1 in the fibrogenic responses.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 2458043 PMCID: PMC1880746
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Pathol ISSN: 0002-9440 Impact factor: 4.307