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Kitamura, M. et al.

Transforming growth factor-beta 1 is the predominant paracrine inhibitor of macrophage cytokine synthesis produced by glomerular mesangial cells .

Cross-communication between glomerular cells and infiltrating mononuclear cells plays an important role in the generation of or recovery from glomerular diseases. We found that cultured mesangial cells secrete a factor that inhibits production of proinflammatory cytokines by activated macrophages. Treatment of J774.2 macrophages with conditioned media from rat mesangial cells blunted the transcriptional induction of IL-1 beta, IL-6, and TNF-alpha by LPS. None of the media conditioned by other fibroblastic, epithelial, or endothelial cell lines exhibited the inhibitory effect. Media conditioned by normal rat glomeruli contained a similar inhibitory activity, which was enhanced in an acute model of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis. To identify the active component involved, we examined the expression of known macrophage deactivators IL-10, IL-13, and TGF-beta 1 in mesangial cells. Under the basal culture conditions, strong expression of TGF-beta 1 mRNA was observed, whereas expression of neither IL-10 nor IL-13 was detected. Immunoblot analysis and a specific bioassay detected the active form of TGF-beta 1 exclusively in the mesangial cell conditioned media. The inhibitory activity was enhanced by heat treatment, consistent with the known property of TGF-beta. A specific anti-TGF-beta 1 neutralizing Ab abolished the inhibitory effect exerted by the mesangial cell media, and exogenously added TGF-beta1 suppressed macrophage cytokine expression in a dose-dependent manner. These findings demonstrate that mesangial cells and isolated glomeruli secrete a factor which suppresses cytokine expression by activated macrophages, the active entity being identified as TGF-beta 1.[1]

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Transforming growth factor-beta 1 is the predominant paracrine inhibitor of macrophage cytokine synthesis produced by glomerular mesangial cells . Kitamura, M., Sütö, T., Yokoo, T., Shimizu, F., Fine, L.G. J. Immunol. (1996) [Pubmed]

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