title: Mechanism that regulates nitric oxide production by lipopolysaccharide-stimulated rat Kupffer cells.
abstract: Mechanism that regulates nitric oxide (NO) production by stimulated Kupffer cells was studied. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulated NO production by primary-cultured Kupffer cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Twenty-four h after incubation with 1 microgram/ml of LPS, the nitrite concentration in the culture medium increased from 2.87 +/- 1.4 to 73.6 +/- 6.9 nmol/ml. NO production started to increase around 6 h after adding LPS and reached a maximum within 24 h. NO production was inhibited by 0.3 mM of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine and was reversed by adding 3 mM of L-arginine. When incubated with 1 microgram/ml of LPS for 24 h, NO synthase activity in Kupffer cells increased from 0.164 +/- 0.035 to 3.16 +/- 0.11 nmol/min/mg protein. Dexamethasone and prednisolone significantly inhibited the induction of NO synthase and NO production in Kupffer cells. Expression of mRNA for inducible type of NO synthase (iNOS) started to increase around 4 h after adding LPS (1 microgram/ml) and reached a maximum by about 20 h. The enhanced expression of iNOS mRNA was also suppressed by 1 microM dexamethasone. On the other hand, calcium ionophore A23187 significantly enhanced the induction of NO synthase and iNOS mRNA expression in LPS-stimulated Kupffer cells. In addition, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, genistein (100 microM), significantly inhibited NO production by LPS-stimulated Kupffer cells. Neither phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, dibutyryl cAMP, indomethacin nor a protein kinase C inhibitor H-7 affected NO production by Kupffer cells. These results suggested that iNOS mRNA expression, NO synthase activity and NO production increased in LPS-stimulated Kupffer cells by a glucocorticoid-inhibitable mechanism and that Ca2+ and tyrosine phosphorylation might play important roles in LPS-dependent induction of NO synthase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirohashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaneda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawada
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inoue
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019446:Endotoxemia / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004790:Enzyme Induction / Q000187:drug effects; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000494:pharmacology; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester / Q000494:pharmacology; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004768:Enterotoxins; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005938:Glucocorticoids; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D009569:Nitric Oxide; C027538:heat-labile enterotoxin, E coli; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester