Effect of Transmitters and Co-Transmitters of the Sympathetic Nervous System on Interleukin-6 Synthesis in Thymic Epithelial Cells

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In the thymus, sympathetic nerves run in septa in close connection to subcapsular/perivascular thymic epithelial cells (TEC). Since TEC are supposed to create a microenvironment of cytokines necessary for the development of thymocytes to T cells, we investigated the influence of sympathetic transmitters and co-transmitters on interleukin-6 (IL-6) synthesis in cultivated rat TEC that express markers of perivascular/subcapsular TEC. Noradrenaline and ATP stimulated IL-6 production in the culture supernatants 14- and 23-fold over basal values after 24 h. Co-stimulation with noradrenaline and ATP yielded an additive effect. Synthesis of IL-6 was concentration-dependent upon ATP and appeared to be mediated by P<sub>2</sub> purinoceptors. During 24 h stimulation with 1 mM ATP, two thirds of the ligand was degraded mainly to ADP, production of AMP and adenosine was minor or negligible. Thus, in TEC, transmitters and co-transmitters of the sympathetic nervous system have a co-stimulatory effect on synthesis of IL-6 that is an important factor for thymocyte differentiation and proliferation.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NIM

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Neuroimmunomodulation

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1021-7401

Title: Neuroimmunomodulation

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISBN: 978-3-8055-6769-5

ISBN: 978-3-318-00356-7

ISSN (Print): 1021-7401

ISSN (Electronic): 1423-0216

Publication date Subscription-year: 1999

Publication date (Print): April 1999

Publication date (Electronic): 08 January 1999

Volume: 6

Issue: 1-2

Pages: 45-50

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Universität Kiel, Anatomisches Institut, Kiel, Deutschland

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Publisher ID: 26363 Other ID: Neuroimmunomodulation 1999;6:45–50

DOI: 10.1159/000026363

PubMed ID: 9876234

SO-VID: 6ceafc0e-fd9d-4efa-a86d-e5a85fcc27ce

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