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In vivo expression of monokine and inducible nitric oxide synthase in experimentally induced pulmonary granulomatous inflammation. Evidence for sequential production of interleukin-1, inducible nitric oxide synthase, and tumor necrosis factor.

Abstract
The present study examined the temporal pattern and localization of interleukin-1, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in lung tissue undergoing foreign body granuloma formation. Pulmonary granulomas were induced by the intratracheal injection of dextran beads into genetically high granuloma responder, carrying Bcgs (BALB/c), and low responder, carrying Bcgr (C3H/HeJ and DBA/2), mice. There was a pattern of sequential expression of these molecules in BALB/c mice. Thus, interleukin-1 alpha and inducible nitric oxide synthase were induced mostly in the cells accumulated around the beads and also in some bronchiolar epithelial cells during the early phase (1 to 3 days), whereas tumor necrosis factor-alpha was induced in the cells around the beads at the later resolution phase (3 to 7 days). By contrast, in low responder mice, an increase in the expression of interleukin-1 alpha and inducible nitric oxide synthase was detected in lung macrophages as well as in alveolar cells and bronchiolar epithelial cells on day 1, but that of tumor necrosis factor-alpha was not detected throughout the period. These results together with our previous findings on cytokine activity in granuloma extract suggest that interleukin-1 and nitric oxide produced by recruited macrophages may take part in the early, macrophage-dependent phase of granuloma formation whereas tumor necrosis factor-alpha may be more crucial as a mediator responsible for the difference in innate resistance or susceptibility to granuloma formation.
AuthorsM Tsuji, V B Dimov, T Yoshida
JournalThe American journal of pathology (Am J Pathol) Vol. 147 Issue 4 Pg. 1001-15 (Oct 1995) ISSN: 0002-9440 [Print] United States
PMID7573346 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Dextrans
  • Interleukin-1
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Dextrans
  • Enzyme Induction
  • Female
  • Granuloma (etiology, metabolism)
  • Interleukin-1 (biosynthesis, genetics)
  • Lung Diseases (etiology, metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Mice, Inbred DBA
  • Microspheres
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase (metabolism)
  • RNA, Messenger (metabolism)
  • Rats
  • Time Factors
  • Tissue Distribution
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (biosynthesis, genetics)

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