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Morphological alterations and elevations in tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin (IL)-1alpha, and IL-6 in mixed glia cultures following exposure to trimethyltin: modulation by proinflammatory cytokine recombinant proteins and neutralizing antibodies.

Abstract：

:Trimethyltin (TMT), is a hippocampal neurotoxicant characterized by neuronal degeneration, astrogliosis, and microglia reactivity with an associated elevation in proinflammatory cytokine mRNA levels. To examine the role of proinflammatory cytokines in the TMT-induced glia response, mixed cortical glia cultures were exposed to TMT and morphological and cytokine responses were examined. Morphological changes in the glia monolayer, enlarged, rounded cell bodies and retraction of the monolayer into distinct GFAP+ dense processes, displayed a dose (1, 5, and 10 microM TMT) and temporal response (6-48 h), accompanied by clustering of OX-42+ microglia. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interleukin (IL)-1alpha, and IL-6 mRNA levels were elevated by 3 and 6 h of TMT (10 microM) and proteins by 24 h. Recombinant proteins for IL-1alpha (100 pg/ml) and IL-6 (10 ng/ml) exacerbated the morphological response to TMT while those for TNFalpha (150 pg/ml) did not. Neutralizing antibodies (1:100) to IL-1alpha and IL-6 showed a slight decrease in the severity of the morphological response to TMT while, at 24 h, TNFalpha antibodies (1:100) and an antibody cocktail offered a significant level of protection. At 6 h, the neutralizing antibodies to TNFalpha or IL-1alpha did not elevate basal cytokine mRNA levels, however, IL-6 and the cocktail of antibodies significantly elevated IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-6 mRNA levels. The specific elevation in IL-1alpha and IL-6 mRNA levels induced by TMT remained evident only in cells coexposed to anti-TNFalpha. Similar responses in cytokine mRNA levels were seen in cocultures of hippocampal neurons and glia exposed to TMT. These data suggest a relationship between microglia activation, proinflammatory cytokine release, and glia morphological responses, the significance of which remains to be determined, as well as, the impact on neuronal degeneration.

journal_name

Toxicol Appl Pharmacol

journal_title

Toxicology and applied pharmacology

authors

Harry GJ,Tyler K,d'Hellencourt CL,Tilson HA,Maier WE

doi

10.1006/taap.2002.9390

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-05-01 00:00:00

pages

205-18

issue

eissn

0041-008X

issn

1096-0333

pii

S0041008X02993907

journal_volume

180

pub_type

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Morphological alterations and elevations in tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin (IL)-1alpha, and IL-6 in mixed glia cultures following exposure to trimethyltin: modulation by proinflammatory cytokine recombinant proteins and neutralizing antibodies.