[Cytokines and lymphoplasmocytic proliferations: essential role of interleukin 6].
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a major in vitro growth factor for tumoral cells in human multiple myeloma and myeloma cell lines, whose growth is completely dependent on exogenous IL-6, can be reproducibly obtained. IL-6 is overproduced in patients with active myeloma, mainly by the tumoral environment. Injection of anti-IL-6 antibodies to myeloma patients with terminal disease and extramedullary proliferation completely blocked myeloma-cell proliferation in vivo and completely inhibited the C-reactive protein production. Moreover, the serum CRP level is a strong prognostic factor in myeloma, increased serum CRP levels (reflecting an increased IL-6 production) being associated with a poor prognosis. Other cytokines control the IL-6 mediated myeloma cell proliferation. GM-CSF, IL-3 and G-CSF stimulate the IL-6 responsiveness of myeloma cells without affecting the endogenous IL-6 production. Interferon-gamma completely inhibits the IL-6 mediated myeloma-cell proliferation without affecting the endogenous IL-6 production and IFN alpha and TNF alpha stimulate the proliferation of our IL-6 dependent myeloma-cell lines by inducing an autocrine production of IL-6 in these cell lines.
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D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000473:pathology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000166:cytology
D016207:Cytokines; D015850:Interleukin-6
Cytokines et proliférations lymphoplasmocytaires: rôle essentiel de l'interleukine 6.