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Title
Synergism between interleukin-1 and interferon-, an inducer of nitric oxide synthase, in rat lung fibroblasts
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Abstract
An L-arginine-dependent pathway, by which L-arginine is metabolised to citrulline and nitrogen oxides, has been recently identified in some cell types. In cultured rat lung fibroblasts the presence of L-arginine was necessary for the production of nitrite to be induced by rat recombinant interferon-gamma and synergistically enhanced by lipopolysaccharide and interleukin-1beta. Lipopolysaccharide and interleukin-1beta did not induce nitrite biosynthesis by themselves. Biosynthesis was apparently dependent on tetrahydrobiopterin, since it could be blocked by diaminohydroxypyrimidine, an inhibitor of tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis. Dexamethasone blocked nitrite production by a receptor-mediated mechanism. These data indicate that rat lung fibroblasts express an L-arginine-dependent nitric oxide synthase which can be induced by some mediators of inflammation.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European journal of pharmacology. - Amsterdam, 1967, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : North-Holland , 1992
ISSN
0014-2999 [print]
1879-0712 [online]
DOI
10.1016/0014-2999(92)94811-9
Volume/pages
224 :1 (1992) , p. 7-12
ISI
A1992KA02400002
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UAntwerpen
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