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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 133, Issue 2 764-768, Copyright © 1984 by American Association of Immunologists

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Interferon-gamma reduces macrophage-suppressive activity by inhibiting prostaglandin E2 release and inducing interleukin 1 production

D Boraschi, S Censini and A Tagliabue

Normal peritoneal M phi of C3H/HeN mice were able to suppress lymphocyte proliferation in a dose-dependent fashion when added to Con A-pulsed spleen cell cultures. However, M phi-suppressive activity could be partially or completely reduced by in vitro pre-exposure to nonimmune IFN-alpha or immune recombinant IFN-gamma. For both IFN-alpha and IFN-gamma, reduction of M phi suppression was marginal at 10(1) U/ml and became highly significant at 10(2) to 10(3)/ml. The ability of IFN-alpha and IFN-gamma to modulate M phi suppression appears to be related to distinct mechanisms. In fact, impairment of M phi suppression by IFN-alpha occurred in parallel to the decrease of M phi capacity to produce PGE2 and the oxygen intermediate O2-, two molecules responsible for M phi-suppressive activity. In contrast, M phi exposed to IFN-gamma showed only impairment of PGE2 production, whereas O2- release was not significantly affected. Furthermore, at variance with IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma directly stimulated M phi to synthesize and release IL 1, a monokine known to promote lymphocyte proliferation.


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