TY - JOUR
T1 - Impairment of cytokine production in mice fed a vitamin D3-deficient diet
AU - Kankova, M.
AU - Luini, W.
AU - Pedrazzoni, M.
AU - Riganti, F.
AU - Sironi, M.
AU - Bottazzi, B.
AU - Mantovani, A.
AU - Vecchi, A.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - C57B1/6 female mice fed a Vitamin D (VIT-D)-deficient diet had serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D decreasing with the time of diet exposure (3 and 8 weeks). Cytokine production (IL-6, TNF and IL-1) by peritoneal macrophages cultured in vitro with a standard stimulus, LPS, evaluated in the supernatants as biological activity, was significantly reduced in VIT-D-deficient animals. The defect in monokine production was partial and was evident at suboptimal LPS concentrations and incubation times. I-A antigen expression, induced in macrophages by in vitro exposure to IFN-γ, was not modified in VIT-D-deficient mice, but IFN-γ-inducible macrophage cytotoxicity to tumour target cells was significantly decreased in VIT-D-deficient animals. Moreover, basal and Poly I:C-induced NK activity was not modified by VIT-D deficincy. Thus, macrophage functions, such as cytokine production and tumour cytotoxicity induction, are down-modulated in vitro by VIT-D deprivation. To give more support to the relevance of VIT-D availability for cytokine production, TNF and IL-6 have been evaluated in the sera of control and VIT-D-deficient mice given LPS as a model stimulus. Serum peak levels of both cytokines were at least halved in VIT-D-deprived mice. Thus, VIT-D deficiency may represent a model of partial defect of monokine production.
AB - C57B1/6 female mice fed a Vitamin D (VIT-D)-deficient diet had serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D decreasing with the time of diet exposure (3 and 8 weeks). Cytokine production (IL-6, TNF and IL-1) by peritoneal macrophages cultured in vitro with a standard stimulus, LPS, evaluated in the supernatants as biological activity, was significantly reduced in VIT-D-deficient animals. The defect in monokine production was partial and was evident at suboptimal LPS concentrations and incubation times. I-A antigen expression, induced in macrophages by in vitro exposure to IFN-γ, was not modified in VIT-D-deficient mice, but IFN-γ-inducible macrophage cytotoxicity to tumour target cells was significantly decreased in VIT-D-deficient animals. Moreover, basal and Poly I:C-induced NK activity was not modified by VIT-D deficincy. Thus, macrophage functions, such as cytokine production and tumour cytotoxicity induction, are down-modulated in vitro by VIT-D deprivation. To give more support to the relevance of VIT-D availability for cytokine production, TNF and IL-6 have been evaluated in the sera of control and VIT-D-deficient mice given LPS as a model stimulus. Serum peak levels of both cytokines were at least halved in VIT-D-deprived mice. Thus, VIT-D deficiency may represent a model of partial defect of monokine production.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 1655638
AN - SCOPUS:0025868614
VL - 73
SP - 466
EP - 471
JO - Immunology
JF - Immunology
SN - 0019-2805
IS - 4
ER -