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Query: UNIPROT:P05231 (interleukin-6)
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To better understand the effects of freezing on various immunocompetent cell functions, the interleukin-6 (IL-6)-producing activities of frozen peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from healthy subjects were determined. Frozen, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated PBMCs produced significantly larger quantities of IL-6 than fresh cells. Although elimination of radiosensitive, CD8+ suppressor T cells had no significant effect on PHA-induced IL-6 production by T cells, elimination of CD4+ Leu-8+ suppressor T cell subsets resulted in a significantly enhanced IL-6 secretion. Exogenous addition of prostaglandin E-2 to frozen PBMCs and monocytes inhibited LPS-induced IL-6 production. The results suggest that functional inactivation of a subset of cryosensitive, PGE-2-secreting monocytes is associated with an increase in IL-6 production by the other subset. They also indicate that a subset of CD4+ Leu-8+ T cells might be involved in feedback inhibition of PHA-induced T cell-mediated IL-6 production. The results provide further evidence that the presence of larger quantities of IL-6 in conjunction with increased amounts of IL-1 and IL-2 secreted by the frozen cells may be responsible for the previously reported enhanced immunoglobulin-producing abilities of frozen cells from clinically healthy subjects and from patients with lung cancer.
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PMID:Effects of cryopreservation on immune responses: VII. Freezing induced enhancement of IL-6 production in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. 798 56

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) functions in part by regulating osteoblast cytokine expression. We recently demonstrated that PTH induced a rapid and transient increase in interleukin-6 (IL-6) mRNA expression in rat bones in vivo. To determine the molecular basis of this effect, we analyzed the human IL-6 promoter fused (-1,179 to +9) with the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter gene in stable transfections into human osteoblast-like osteosarcoma SaOS-2 cells. We compared the effects of PTH on IL-6 expression with adenylate cyclase activator forskolin, PKC activator phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), calcium ionophore A23187, interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), prostaglandin E-2 (PGE-2), RS-66271 (a parathyroid hormone-related peptide analog), and platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB). Analyses of cell clones showed that IL-6 promoter expression was extremely low in the unstimulated state. Exposure to PTH (0.001-100 nM) for 12 h stimulated CAT expression in a dose-dependent manner (200-500% of control). Treatment with IL-1 alpha was more potent than PTH in inducing transcription of the IL-6 promoter (900-1,000%). Activation of the cAMP-PKA pathway by treatment with forskolin induced a comparable level of induction with PTH. Together, the effects of PTH and forskolin were additive. RS-66271, previously shown to have PTH-like effects, induced a comparable level of IL-6 promoter expression. When examined together, PTH+RS-66271 effects were comparable to PTH effects alone. Exposure to PGE-2, PMA, PDGF-BB, or A23187 for 12 h did not significantly alter IL-6 promoter expression. These results demonstrate PTH, forskolin, the PTHrP analog RS-66271, and IL-1 alpha stimulate IL-6 expression by stimulating gene transcription. The response to forskolin suggests that the messenger system mediated by PKA is sufficient to induce IL-6 expression.
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PMID:Parathyroid hormone (1-34)-mediated interleukin-6 induction. 932 32

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder of upper and lower motorneurons, leading to death in 3 to 5 years. Respiratory insufficiency and hypoxemia are closely linked during the clinical course of ALS. Chronic respiratory insufficiency and hypoxemia generally occur late in the disease course but rapid episodes of intermittent hypoxemia followed by reoxygenation can occur early and insidiously. Two pathways are involved in the response to hypoxemia: (i) hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) and VEGF/HIF-2 and an erythropoietin (EPO) mediated pathway, in response to prolonged hypoxemia; and (ii) nuclear factor kappa-B (NFkappa-B) during acute hypoxemia followed by reoxygenation episodes, inducing inflammatory mediators: interleukin-6 (IL-6), TNF-alpha, cyclo oxygenase-2 (COX-2) and prostaglandin E-2 (PGE-2). Our aim was to specify the role of the different functional pathways of response to hypoxemia in sporadic ALS patients, compared with neurological controls and according to the level of hypoxemia. We report the results of several studies of hypoxemic and/or inflammatory mediators in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from ALS patients, according to their respiratory status, showing a selective defect of HIF-1 mediated angiogenic factors (VEGF and angiogenin [ANG]) during chronic hypoxia in sporadic ALS patients, compared to hypoxemic neurological controls; contrasting with an early activation of the NFkappa-B pathway since the isolated desaturation stage (IL-6, TNF-alpha, PGE-2, angiopoietin-2) in the same cohort of sporadic ALS patients. All these results are consistent with a selective impairment of the HIF-1 pathway during chronic hypoxemia in ALS patients. Inflammatory mediators were strongly elevated, since the early stage of the disease until chronic hypoxemia, suggesting a compensatory mechanism.
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PMID:[Mechanisms of deregulated response to hypoxia in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a clinical study]. 1966 Jul 77