Abstract
Lithium carbonate therapy is associated with polymorphonuclear leukocytosis. In vitro studies have shown that lithium ions stimulate formation of granulocytic colonies. In a study undertaken to determine how lithium acts, colony-forming cells uncontaminated by monocytes (which elaborate colony-stimulating factor [CSF] in vitro) were obtained by means of a two-step cell separation procedure. The effects of lithium on colony formation were then studied in (a) cultures stimulated by humoral CSF, (b) cultures in which monocytes were relied upon to synthesize CSF de novo and (c) unstimulated cultures. Lithium enhanced the action of CSF but did not stimulate colony formation in the absence of CSF. In monocyte-stimulated cultures, colony formation increased with lithium concentrations up to 1 mmol/L but this increase paralleled that in CSF-stimulated cultures and therefore was not due to increased CSF production by monocytes. At higher concentrations of lithium, colony formation decreased in the monocyte-stimulated cultures but increased in the CSF-stimulated cultures. A lithium concentration of 4 mmol/L gave the greatest enhancing effect on colony formation in CSF-stimulated cultures and a concentration greater than 1 mmol/L inhibited de novo synthesis of CSF by monocytes.
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