Ethanol stimulates superoxide production and inhibits phorbol ester induced superoxide production in alveolar macrophages

Conference · Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986 · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)

OSTI ID:7022305

Dorio, R J; Hoek, J B; Forman, H J; Rubin, E

Ethanol stimulates superoxide (O/sub 2//sup -/) production in rat alveolar macrophages. Increasing the ethanol concentration from 75 to 500 mM produces a linear dose response curve, generating between 10 and 30 pmol O/sub 2//sup -//min/10/sup 6/ cells. Thus, ethanol is a weak agonist of O/sub 2//sup -/ in these cells. Pretreatment with ethanol in the same concentration range results in a dose and time dependent inhibition of O/sub 2//sup -/ production by phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA). 100 mM ethanol inhibits PMA (100 ng/ml)-induced O/sub 2//sup -/ production by 60% after 5 minutes and by 80% after 30 minutes of preincubation. At lower concentrations (10-25 mM), however, ethanol causes a synergistic stimulation of PMA-induced O/sub 2//sup -/ production. Preincubation for 15 minutes with 10 mM ethanol results in a 20% increase in PMA-induced O/sub 2//sup -/ production. Synergism between PMA and ethanol is seen at ethanol concentrations which do not result in O/sub 2//sup -/ production by ethanol alone. This synergism is abolished by a 15 minute preincubation of the cells in EGTA. Thus, ethanol acts as a weak agonist for O/sub 2//sup -/ production and interacts significantly with PMA-induced stimulation of O/sub 2//sup -/ production.

• Research Organization: Hahnemann, Univ., Philadelphia, PA
• OSTI ID: 7022305
• Report Number(s): CONF-8606151-
• Journal Information: Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:6; Conference: 76. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, Washington, DC, USA, 8 Jun 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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