Journal
CYTOKINES CELLULAR & MOLECULAR THERAPY
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 161-164Publisher
MARTIN DUNITZ LTD
DOI: 10.1080/mccm.6.4.161.164
Keywords
cord blood; interleukin-15; interleukin-12; ICAM-1; CD54
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We investigated the effect of two immunoregulatory cytokines, interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-15, alone or in combination, on intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1, CD54) expression on mononuclear cells (MNC) obtained from umbilical cord blood (CB) and adult peripheral blood (APB). We established that (1) ICAM-1 expression was deficient on freshly isolated CB T and natural killer (NK) cells compared with that on adult cells; (2) ICAM-1 expression on T cells (CD3(+)/CD54(+)), but not on NK cells (CD16(+)/CD54(+)), was spontaneously upregulated after 7 days' culture in RPMl with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS) in the absence of cytokines, for CB and APB MNC alike; (3) removal of 10% FCS from the medium did not affect the spontaneous CD3(+)/CD54(+) upregulation on APB MNC; (3) CB NK cells responded more readily to IL-12 and IL-15 than did APB NK cells in terms of ICAM-1 expression, while ICAM-1 expression on APB T cells, but not on CB T cells, could be enhanced with IL-12 plus IL-15; (4) the combination of IL-12 and IL-15 downregulated ICAM-1 expression on both CB and APB NK cells. Thus, we demonstrated the different patterns of ICAM-1 regulation by CB MNC and APB MNC in response to IL-12 and/or IL-15 and the differential effect of cytokines on the regulation of adhesion molecules on neonatal NK and T cells.
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