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Enhancement of murine bone marrow macrophage differentiation by beta- endorphin

K Hagi, K Inaba, H Sakuta and S Muramatsu

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.

The present study was performed to investigate the effect of beta- endorphin on macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF)-induced differentiation of macrophages from bone marrow cells in a semisolid culture system. beta-endorphin increased the number of macrophage colonies when bone marrow cells were cultured in the presence of M-CSF plus lipopolysaccharide (LPS). This was not the case with LPS- unresponsive C3H/HeJ mouse bone marrow cells. alpha-endorphin and gamma- endorphin were as effective as beta-endorphin in enhancing the colony formation. Exogenous interleukin-1 (IL-1), but neither IL-6 nor tumor necrosis factor (TNF), collaborated with beta-endorphin even in the absence of LPS, suggesting that IL-1 is a primary mediator of the effect of LPS. Indeed, anti-IL-1 antibody abolished the collaborative effect of beta-endorphin with LPS. Moreover, IL-1 was effective even for C3H/HeJ mouse bone marrow cells. Naloxone, an antagonist of endorphins for opioid-receptors, completely abrogated the effect of beta-endorphin. In a single-cell culture system, the collaboration between beta-endorphin and IL-1 was revealed by the increase in number and size of macrophage colonies, but collaboration between beta- endorphin and LPS did not occur. These results indicate that, in mixed cell culture, beta-endorphin acts in concert with paracrinal IL-1 induced by LPS to enhance M-CSF-dependent macrophage differentiation from immature precursor cells.

Volume 86, Issue 4, pp. 1316-1321, 08/15/1995
Copyright © 1995 by The American Society of Hematology


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