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Production of interleukin-10 by human bronchogenic carcinoma

D R Smith et al. Am J Pathol. 1994 Jul.

Abstract

Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a recently characterized cytokine with suppressive activity against various aspects of the cellular immune response. Our laboratory has previously demonstrated that another anti-inflammatory cytokine, IL-1 receptor antagonist (IRAP) is produced and secreted by human bronchogenic carcinomas. We speculated that tumor production of IRAP may mitigate host responses and confer increased tumor viability. In this study, we investigated the capacity of human bronchogenic tumors to produce IL-10 as another possible mechanism to attenuate host defenses. We found increased levels of antigenic IL-10 in tissue homogenates of human bronchogenic carcinomas compared with normal lung tissue (13.69 +/- 2.87 versus 5.84 +/- 0.84 ng/mg total protein). Immunohistochemical staining of tumors illustrate primary localization of antigenic IL-10 to individual tumor cells. Analysis of supernatants of several unstimulated human bronchogenic cell lines in vitro demonstrated the ability of tumor cells to constitutively produce IL-10. Functional studies of mononuclear cells, cultured in the presence of conditioned medium from a bronchogenic cell line, demonstrated their increased tumor necrosis factor and IL-6 production with the addition of neutralizing antibodies to IL-10. These findings demonstrate that human bronchogenic carcinomas elaborate functional IL-10, which may significantly impair immune effector cell function and enable the tumor to evade host defenses.

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