Effect of Elevated Serum Prolactin Concentrations on Cytokine Production and Natural Killer Cell Activity
作者:
Martin Clodi,
Thomas Svoboda,
Harold Kotzmann,
Roman Deyssig,
Wolfgang Woloszczuk,
Christoph C. Zielinski,
Anton Luger,
期刊:
Neuroendocrinology
(Karger Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 56,
issue 6
页码: 775-779
ISSN:0028-3835
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1159/000126307
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Prolactin;Prolactin-immunology;NK-activity;Prolactinomas;Interleukin;Cytokines
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
In vitro and in vivo studies in rodents and human suggested an immunostimulatory effect of prolactin. The aim of the present study was to determine the impact of chronically elevated serum prolactin concentrations on the immune system in patients with prolactinomas. For this purpose parameters of the humoral and cellular immune system were studied in seven patients with prolactinomas on two occasions (1) when their serum prolactin concentration had been normalized through treatment with dopamine agonists and (2) when their serum prolactin concentration was high. Serum concentrations of immunoglobulines, interleukin 1, 3 and 6, TNF-α, interferon-γ and the soluble interleukin 2 receptor, leukocyte subsets and the natural killer cell activity were found to be within the normal range on both occasions, i.e. at normal and at high serum prolactin concentrations. The assumption could be made that long-lasting elevation of serum prolactin concentration induces adaptive changes when the acute stimulatory effects of prolactin on several parameters of the immune system have subside
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