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. 1992 Dec;90(3):483–490. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1992.tb05871.x

Activated T-lymphocytes induce growth inhibition and prostaglandin E2 release from syngeneic glomerular mesangial cells.

H H Radeke 1, B Schwinzer 1, K Resch 1
PMCID: PMC1554577  PMID: 1458686

Abstract

The concept of an active role of T lymphocytes in the initiation and development of autoimmune glomerulonephritis has gradually evolved from recent investigations. In the present study we started in a murine coculture system to directly examine cellular interactions of intrinsic glomerular mesangial cells (MC) and syngeneic T lymphocytes. Lymph node lymphocytes and, moreover, cloned T helper cells specifically affected syngeneic proliferating MC, causing growth inhibition and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) release. The T cell specificity of mesangial cell responses was confirmed by demonstrating (i) that MC cocultured with other cell types showed no reaction and (ii) that additional activation of T lymphocytes by IL-2 or concanavalin A significantly enhanced the MC responses. Subsequently, we confirmed the presence of T cell factors in the supernatants responsible for the observed effects: interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and tumour necrosis factor (TNF). Experiments with combinations of recombinant mouse IFN-gamma and human lymphotoxin or TNF-alpha showed that these lymphokines could substitute for the direct T lymphocyte effects causing a synergistic growth inhibition and PGE2 release from mouse MC. The observed lymphokine activities were not due to mesangiolysis as shown by neutral red uptake of MC. Pointing to the essential role of T helper cell-specific products, IFN-gamma antibodies abolished both the IFN-gamma and the combined IFN-gamma/TNF-alpha effect. Thus, our investigations with syngeneic MC-lymphocyte cocultures demonstrated that cultured MC specifically responded to T lymphocytes and their products.

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