title: Nicotine- and arecoline-induced interleukin-1 secretion and intercellular adhesion molecular-1 expression in human oral epidermoid carcinoma cells in vitro.
abstract: The purpose was to examine interleukin (IL)-1 concentrations and intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 expression in nicotine/arecoline-exposed oral KB CCL17 cultures. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to quantify IL-1 concentrations in culture supernatants. A repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to identify differences among the groups. IL-1 beta concentrations increased by 2.6, 2.7 and 7.5 times those of the control in groups treated with 1 microM nicotine, arecoline or with both, respectively. IL-1 beta concentrations were more dramatically increased when the agents tested were at 100 microM concentration. Similar, although less dramatic, alterations in IL-1 alpha concentrations were observed. The fluorescence intensity of ICAM-1 (CD54) analysed by flow cytometry was also significantly increased in a dose-dependent manner when the cells were treated with nicotine and/or arecoline. Nicotine and arecoline therefore significantly increased IL-1 alpha and -1 beta secretions and the surface expression of ICAM-1 in KB CCL17 cells.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Tsai
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001115:Arecoline / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D018679:Cholinergic Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005434:Flow Cytometry / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D018799:Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 / Q000032:analysis / Q000187:drug effects*; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009538:Nicotine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018722:Nicotinic Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018679:Cholinergic Agonists; D007375:Interleukin-1; D018722:Nicotinic Agonists; D018799:Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1; D001115:Arecoline; D009538:Nicotine