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Cellular Immunology

Volume 181, Issue 1, 10 October 1997, Pages 38-43
Cellular Immunology

Regular Article
Cocaine Inhibits Human Endothelial Cell IL-8 Production: The Role of Transforming Growth Factor-β,☆☆

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Abstract

Cocaine use is associated with modulation of a broad range of biological functions including the capacity to influence cytokine production in murine and human immunoeffector cells. Little is known, however, regarding the effects of cocaine on endothelial cell cytokine production. Because the vascular endothelium actively participates in acute and chronic inflammatory responses and interleukin-8 (IL-8) is one of the key cytokines involved in the inflammatory process, modification of the production of IL-8 by vascular endothelial cells may interfere with the host response to infection or tissue injury. We investigated the effect of cocaine on endothelial cell IL-8 production. Conditioned supernatant from EA.hy 926 cells were evaluated by ELISA followingin vitrococaine exposure. Cocaine decreased IL-8 production in a dose-responsive manner, and this reduction correlated with down-regulation of IL-8 mRNA expression. Cocaine also increased the production of TGF-β by EA.hy 926 cells and anti-TGF-β abrogated the cocaine-mediated decrement of IL-8 production, indicating that cocaine down-regulates endothelial IL-8 production by increasing TGF-β. Our findings suggest that the immunomodulatory effects of cocaine may be mediated, in part, by modification of endothelial-derived cytokine production.

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    This work is supported by NIDA/NIH Grant R01-DA08254 and the Veterans Administration. J.M. and S.S. were supported by NIH Institutional Training Grant in Pulmonary Medicine HL07014. S.S. was also supported by a Parker B. Francis Fellowship. S.D. is a Career Investigator of the American Lung Association.

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    IL, interleukinTGF-β, transforming growth factor-β; IFN-γ, interferon-γ; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; PBL, human peripheral blood lymphocytes; PAF, platelet-activating factor;

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    To whom correspondence should be addressed at Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, WLA VA, W111Q, 11301 Wilshire Blvd; Los Angeles, CA 90073. Fax: (310)268-4712.

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