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. 1985 Nov;76(5):2003–2011. doi: 10.1172/JCI112200

Interleukin 1 acts on cultured human vascular endothelium to increase the adhesion of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, monocytes, and related leukocyte cell lines.

M P Bevilacqua, J S Pober, M E Wheeler, R S Cotran, M A Gimbrone Jr
PMCID: PMC424265  PMID: 3877078

Abstract

Increased leukocyte adhesion to the endothelial lining of blood vessels is an essential event in inflammation and the pathogenesis of certain vascular diseases. We have studied the effect of interleukin 1 (IL-1), an inflammatory/immune mediator, on endothelial-leukocyte adhesion using quantitative in vitro assays. Selective pretreatment of cultured human umbilical vein endothelial monolayers with IL-1 (5 U/ml, 4 h) resulted in an 18.3 +/- 2.6-fold increase in human peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) adhesion (mean +/- SEM, n = 16) and a 2.6 +/- 0.3-fold increase in monocyte adhesion (n = 7) over basal levels. IL-1-treated endothelial monolayers also supported increased adhesion of the promyelocytic cell line HL-60 and the monocytelike cell line U937 (33.0 +/- 6.0-fold, n = 6 and 4.9 +/- 0.5-fold, n = 15, respectively). In contrast, selective IL-1 pretreatment of leukocytes, or the addition of IL-1 during the adhesion assay, did not alter endothelial-leukocyte adhesion. Conditioned medium from IL-1-treated endothelial cultures also did not promote leukocyte adhesion to untreated monolayers. IL-1 induction of endothelial adhesivity was concentration dependent (maximum, 10 U/ml), time dependent (peak, 4-6 h), and reversible, was blocked by cycloheximide (10 micrograms/ml) or actinomycin D (5 micrograms/ml) but not by acetylsalicylic acid (100 microM), and occurred without detectable endothelial cell damage. IL-1 treatment of SV40-transformed human endothelial cells and dermal fibroblasts did not increase their adhesivity for leukocytes. These data suggest that IL-1 can act selectively on human vascular endothelium to increase its adhesivity for circulating blood leukocytes, and thus to localize leukocyte-vessel wall interactions at sites of inflammation in vivo.

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