Korean J Occup Environ Med.
1999 Sep;11(3):332-339.
Effect of Cadmium and Zinc on IL-6 Secretion in a Human Monocytic Cell Line, THP-1
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- 1Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Korea.
- 2Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Korea.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES
This study was performed to investigate effects of cadmium and zinc on IL-6 secretion using human monocyte in a culture system.
METHODS
We have used frypan blue dye exclusion methods to examine the effect of cytotoxicity of CdCl2, ZnCl2 in THP-1 cells. IL-6 was measured by the ELIBA method in the cell culture supernatants and the expression of IL-6 mRNA was examined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.
RESULTS
IL-6 production by THP-1 cells were decreased at 0.1 mM cadmium concentration(p < 0.05) and increased as zinc concentration increased. Zinc prevented cadmiuminduced suppression of IL-6. and the addition of a chelating agent, EDTA, restores IL-6 secretion. The expression of IL-6 mRNA decreased at 0.08 mM and 0.1 mM cadmium concentrations.
CONCLUSION
This results suggests that cadmium depressed production and gene expression of IL-6 in stimulates human monocytes, and zinc prevented cadmium-induced suppression of IL-16.
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