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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 272: L707-L713, 1997;
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AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 4 707-L713, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Endogenous nitric oxide limits cytokine-induced damage of murine lung epithelial cells

A. Burke-Gaffney and P. G. Hellewell
Applied Pharmacology, Imperial College School of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, London, United Kingdom.

This study investigated whether endogenous nitric oxide (NO) limits cytokine-induced damage to the murine lung epithelial cell line LA-4. NO production was assessed as nitrite using the Griess reaction, and cell damage was assessed using ethidium homodimer-1. Cytotoxicity was first detected after a 24-h incubation with a combination of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-1beta, and interferon-gamma (cytomix). Nitrite production increased to 78.0 +/- 0.5 nmol/10(6) cells at 24 h. Coincubation of LA-4 with cytomix and NO synthase inhibitors, aminoguanidine (3-1,000 microM) and N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine (10-1,000 microM), but not N(G)-monomethyl-D-arginine, or a soluble guanylate cyclase inhibitor, 1H-[1,2,4] oxadiazole [4,3-a] quinoxalin-1-one, reduced cytomix-induced nitrite production and increased cytotoxicity up to twofold (24 h). Removal of L-arginine from the medium increased damage; reintroduction of 1,000 microM L-arginine, but not D-arginine, reversed this. In aminoguanidine-treated cells, replacement of NO with an NO donor, S-nitrosoglutathione (30 microM), reversed, in part, the cell damage observed in aminoguanidine/cytomix-treated cells. These results suggest that endogenous NO limits cytokine-induced lung epithelial damage.


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