PMID: 7541951Jun 1, 1995Paper

Differential effects of in vivo ethanol on LPS-induced TNF and nitric oxide production in the lung

The American Journal of Physiology
J K KollsS Nelson

Abstract

Alcohol (EtOH) has been shown to suppress lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitric oxide (NO) generation and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production in the lung in vivo. We have previously reported that EtOH suppressed gene expression for inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) with a subsequent decrease in release of reactive nitrogen intermediates by alveolar macrophages and recruited lung neutrophils. We hypothesized that a similar mechanism may be involved in EtOH-induced suppression of LPS-stimulated TNF production. In contrast to what we found with iNOS, EtOH had no effect on TNF mRNA in alveolar macrophages or recruited lung neutrophils. However, immunoreactive and bioactive TNF was reduced by 72%. EtOH treatment resulted in an increased level of the membrane-bound 26-kDa form of TNF, which suggested that proteolytic cleavage of this prohormone was affected by EtOH. Experiments with t-butyl alcohol, a tertiary alcohol that is not metabolized to acetaldehyde, yielded similar results. Thus EtOH appears to be the active substance in suppression of TNF in the lung in vivo. Pretreatment with intratracheal interferon-gamma 24 h before intratracheal LPS increased TNF bioactivity partly due to increased TNF mRNA and by increasing T...Continue Reading

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Oct 26, 2005·Respiratory Research·Kejing SongJay K Kolls
Sep 10, 2009·American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology·Gayathriy BalamayooranSamithamby Jeyaseelan
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Apr 15, 2003·Clinical Microbiology Reviews·Herman FriedmanThomas W Klein
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