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. 2015 Sep 2;6:184. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2015.00184

TABLE 3.

Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines secreted during tissue repair.

Pro-inflammatory cytokines Cellular sources (immune system) Effects on bone cells (bone resorption) Reference
TNFα Macrophages, T cells, NK cells, neutrophils, mast cells, B cells → Inhibit the differentiation and bone-forming activity of osteoblasts (OB) → Promote stromal cells to express RANKL for OC differentiation → Promote OC differentiation directly Charatcharoenwitthaya et al. (2007), Reinke et al. (2013)
IL1, IL6 T cells, macrophages, monocytes Up-regulate RANKL to promote OC differentiation Greenblatt and Shim (2013), Mori et al. (2013)
IL17 T cells (Th17) → Acts on stromal cells and OB to up-regulate RANKL and OC differentiation Lubberts et al. (2005), Tucci et al. (2013)
IFNγ NK cells, T cells → Inhibit OC differentiation by down-regulating TRAF6 → Indirectly effect TNF and RANKL expression → Block OB differentiation by inhibiting induction of RUNX2, a master regulator of OB differentiation Takayanagi et al. (2000), Mori et al. (2013)
Anti-inflammatory cytokines Cellular sources (immune system) Major effect on bone cells (bone formation)
IL4 T cells (Th2), mast cells, B cells, stromal cells → Inhibit OC differentiation → Inhibition of LPS-induced pro-inflammatory cytokine synthesis → Positively influence OB migration Zaiss et al. (2007), Greenblatt and Shim (2013), Schmidt-Bleek et al. (2015)
IL10 Monocytes, T cells, type 1 regulatory T cells → Inhibit monocyte/macrophage and neutrophil cytokine production → Inhibit Th1-type lymphocyte response → Block NFκB pathway Shouval et al. (2014)
IL35 Regulatory T cells, regulatory B cells → Suppress the proliferation of conventional T cells → Inhibit the differentiation of Th17 cells Egwuagu and Yu (2015), Sun et al. (2015)
TGFβ Constitutively expressed in many cell lines → Inhibit monocyte/macrophage MHC class II expression → Suppress proinflammatory cytokine synthesis MHC class II expression → Suppress pro-inflammatory cytokine synthesis Schmidt-Bleek et al. (2015)