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Query: UNIPROT:P04141 (granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor)
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Blastocysts were flushed from CD1 mice and were cultured in plastic or laminin-coated plates as an in vitro model of implantation. The purified cytokines epidermal growth factor (EGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) markedly stimulated 3H-thymidine incorporation; but recombinant murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), which might be produced by alloantigen-stimulated T cells at the feto-maternal interface, had no growth-stimulating effect. Indeed, higher nonphysiological concentrations of GM-CSF manifested a toxic inhibition. Surprisingly, a purified nonrecombinant murine GM-CSF preparation induced proliferation of both blastocyst and ectoplacental cone trophoblast whereas recombinant murine (and human) GM-CSF had no effect, indicating that the growth stimulation may have been due to a contaminant. Decidual supernatants prepared on Days 5.5-6.5 of pregnancy from mice with high abortion rates (DBA/2-mated CBA/J) had no toxic or stimulating effect on blastocyst trophoblast outgrowth compared to similarly prepared supernatants from low-abortion-rate DBA/2-mated C3H/HeJ mice. These data suggest that it is not GM-CSF that is crucial for the trophoblast proliferation that determines the success of pregnancy.
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PMID:Effects of decidual cell supernatants and lymphokines on murine trophoblast growth in vitro. 848 59

Chlamydia psittaci is an obligate intracellular pathogen that causes abortion in both sheep and humans. The disease in sheep (but not humans) is characterized by a long-term persistent phase that appears to be under the control of interferon-gamma. However, nothing is known about cytokine induction that precedes the persistent phase in sheep. Primary alveolar lavage cells recovered from normal adult sheep were used to study cytokine production in the first 72 h of infection with C. psittaci. These cells were phenotypically characteristic of macrophages, being adherent, phagocytic, CD14+ and staining positive for non-specific esterase. In vitro infection of the macrophages with C. psittaci resulted in the release of IL-1beta, IL-8 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) as measured by ovine-specific ELISAs. Heat-treated chlamydiae (1 h at 65 degrees C) did not induce the release of IL-1beta, but the release of IL-8 was similar to that induced by untreated organisms. The cells from different sheep varied most notably in their patterns of GM-CSF release in response to heat-treated and untreated organisms.
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PMID:Cytokine release by ovine macrophages following infection with Chlamydia psittaci. 1044 63