General Pharmacology: The Vascular System 1996-12-01

RU 41740 (Biostim) stimulates the production of granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-8 by human bronchial epithelial cells in vitro.

R Aloui, F Gormand, B Guibert, F Corallo, M Perrin Fayolle, Y Pacheco

文献索引：Gen. Pharmacol. 27(8) , 1351-3, (1996)

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摘要

1. In this study, we observed the effects of RU 41740 (Biostim) on the production of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) in human bronchial epithelial cells in vitro. 2. Cytokine production was assessed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. 3. We report that epithelial cells spontaneously released both cytokines and that RU 41740 induced a significant increase in production of IL-8 and GM-CSF. 4. This is the first observation of a stimulatory effect of an immunostimulating compound used in humans on cytokine production by epithelial cells.