Autocrine regulation of rheumatoid arthritis synovial cell growth in vitro

Cytokine
D H GoddardM E Moore

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and not osteoarthritis (OA) synovial cells proliferate in serum-free medium, a finding that suggests that, in vitro, RA synovial cells may be stimulated to grow by the continuous autocrine production of at least one polypeptide growth factor. Adding monoclonal antibody 1D11.16, or rabbit polyclonal anti-tumor growth factor beta (anti-TGF-beta) antibodies (both neutralizing antibodies to TGF-beta 1 and TGF-beta 2) to RA synovial cells, in culture, caused a significant reduction in cell growth, an effect not seen when other growth factor antibodies (platelet-derived growth factor [PDGF], epidermal growth factor [EGF], or EGF receptor) were added to the culture medium. Taken together, these data are consistent with the concept that RA synovial cell growth in vitro is driven endogenous TGF-beta. Moreover, when EGF was added to the culture medium, this caused the numbers of RA, and not OA, synovial cells to increase significantly. This finding suggests that RA synovial cells are in G1 phase of the cell cycle; an effect that could be mediated by endogenous TGF-beta.

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