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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-7-27
pubmed:abstractText
Interleukin-33 (IL-33) is thought to be released during cellular death as an alarming cytokine during the acute phase of disease, but its regulation in vivo is poorly understood. We investigated the expression of IL-33 in two mouse models of acute hepatitis by administering either carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4) ) or concanavalin A (ConA). IL-33 was overexpressed in both models but with a stronger induction in ConA-induced hepatitis. IL-33 was weakly expressed in vascular and sinusoidal endothelial cells from normal liver and was clearly induced in CCl(4) -treated mice. Surprisingly, we found that hepatocytes strongly expressed IL-33 exclusively in the ConA model. CD1d knock-out mice, which are deficient in NKT cells and resistant to ConA-induced hepatitis, no longer expressed IL-33 in hepatocytes following ConA administration. Interestingly, invariant NKT (iNKT) cells adoptively transferred into ConA-treated CD1d KO mouse restored IL-33 expression in hepatocytes. This strongly suggests that NKT cells are responsible for the induction of IL-33 in hepatocytes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1521-4141
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2341-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Acute Disease, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Adoptive Transfer, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Antigens, CD1d, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Carbon Tetrachloride, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Concanavalin A, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Hepatitis, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Hepatocytes, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Interleukin-1beta, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Interleukin-6, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Interleukins, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Natural Killer T-Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:21557213-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
NKT cells are required to induce high IL-33 expression in hepatocytes during ConA-induced acute hepatitis.
pubmed:affiliation
Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't