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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 190, Issue 5, Pages 1026-1032Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/423207
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Human umbilical vein endothelial cells were exposed to free-form and lipid-complexed versions of amphotericin B ( alone or in combination with human recombinant interleukin [IL]-1beta) and to culture medium from the human macrophage cell line THP-1 that had been exposed to amphotericin B. Endothelial cells were then incubated with exogenous-labeled arachidonic acid or were stimulated with histamine. Measurement of the resulting prostanoids indicated that amphotericin B and IL-1beta acted synergistically to increase the ability of endothelial cells to synthesize prostanoids from endogenous and exogenous substrate and to increase expression of cyclooxygenase-2. This resulted in an increase of the ratio of untransformed prostaglandin (PG) H-2 to PGI(2) released by endothelial cells. Culture medium from amphotericin B-activated macrophages caused similar effects in endothelial cells. The synergistic effect with IL-1beta was observed with free-form amphotericin B and, to a lesser extent, with lipid-complexed amphotericin B (Abelcet). Differences between Abelcet and the lipisome carrier (AmBisome) were not significantly different with respect to any of the parameters analyzed.
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