title: Enhanced DNA synthesis in rat hepatoma cells by conditioned media from Kupffer cells incubated with supernatants of tumor necrosis factor-alpha-pretreated hepatocytes.
abstract: The effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) on DNA synthesis in AH66 rat hepatoma cells and rat hepatocytes were analysed by means of [3H]thymidine incorporation. DNA synthesis in AH66 cells was suppressed when AH66 cells were directly incubated with TNF-alpha. When primary culture of rat Kupffer cells was incubated with hepatocyte conditioned media pretreated with TNF-alpha (0-200 U/ml), and AH66 cells were then treated with these hepatocyte/Kupffer cell-conditioned media, TNF-alpha used in the pretreatment caused a dose-dependent increase in DNA synthesis in AH66 cells with a maximum effect amounting to a more than 10-fold increase. In contrast, DNA synthesis in primary culture of rat hepatocytes was not stimulated by the TNF-alpha-pretreated hepatocyte/Kupffer cell conditioned media. These results suggest that TNF-alpha-mediated hepatocyte-Kupffer cell interaction selectively promotes proliferation of rat hepatoma cells.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsuruta
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gondo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakao
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shima
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koji
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002450:Cell Communication; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002457:Cell Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology; D003470:Culture Media; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D002457:Cell Extracts; D003470:Culture Media; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha