Secretion of Epidermal Growth Factor-Like Molecular Species by Lung Parenchymal Macrophages: Induction by Interferon-γ
作者:
KumarRakesh K.,
O'gradyRoslynn,
LiWei,
RajkovicIvan,
期刊:
Growth Factors
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 3
页码: 223-230
ISSN:0897-7194
年代: 1993
DOI:10.3109/08977199309010834
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: interstitial macrophages;pulmonary fibrosis;epidermal growth factor;heparin-bindmg growth factors;macrophage activation;interferon-γ
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractA population of cells enriched for pulmonary interstitial macrophages was obtained by differential adherence of lung parenchymal cells released by dissociation with trypsin. These cells secreted a molecule or molecules that bound to epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptors expressed on pulmonary fibroblasts. Secretion was reprodudbly stimulated by exposure of the macrophages to interferon-y. Binding to EGF receptors could be blocked by a polyclonal antibody to EGF. It could also be partially blocked by incubation with heparin, suggesting that at least a component of the activity might be due to a member of the heparin-binding subgroup of the EGF family of growth factors. Because pulmonary fibrosis is consistently associated with inflammatory accumulation of activated T-lymphocytes, induction by interferon-y of growth factor secretion by macrophages could have pathoge-netic importance. We speculate that similar cellular interactions may play a role in the progression of other chronic inflammatory lesions to fibrosis.
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