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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 270, 期 1-3, 页码 135-139出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00781-6
关键词
silica; fibroblast; macrophage; tumour necrosis factor alpha TNF-alpha); transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta); interleukin-6 (IL6)
Silica has been reported to directly stimulate cellular proliferation of human lung fibroblasts, and silica-treated macrophage supernatants induce fibroblast proliferation and some of their biosynthetic activities. Alveolar macrophages produce increased amount of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta). Lung fibroblasts are producers of interleukin-6 (IL-6). We investigated the capacity of lung fibroblasts obtained from normal and silicosis subjects to elaborate IL-6 in response to TNF-alpha and to TGF-beta. Our data show that TNF-alpha and TGF-beta are able to stimulate the proliferation of human lung fibroblasts in culture, to increase the collagen production of the cells and are both able tcs increase IL-6 production by lung fibroblasts of patients with silicosis. We hypothesise that silica is able to stimulate lung fibroblast both directly, increasing the cell proliferation, and indirectly stimulating the release of factors las TNF-alpha and TGF-beta) from activated alveolar macrophages, that are able to increase proliferative and biosynthetic activities of fibroblast. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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