An attenuated strain of Salmonella typhimurium was used as a vehicle for oral gene therapy against murine tumor. Eukaryotic expression vectors containing genes of human interleukin-12 (hIL-12), human granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF), mouse (m)IL-12, mGM-CSF and green fluorescent protein (GFP) were used to transform attenuated Salmonella (SL3261), and such transformants...

Recombinant murine granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rGM-CSF) has been produced in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. GM-CSF has an established role as an in vitro regulator of granulocyte and macrophage colony formation. We have determined that rGM-CSF also has intrinsic activity as a megakaryocyte colony-stimulating factor and that rGM-CSF augments the effect of int...

Highly purified murine granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells (CFU-GM) were used as target cells to assess the possible direct effects of purified preparations of recombinant murine 7-intcrferon, prostaglandin E, recombinant human heavy chain (acidic) ferritin, and recombinant human tumor necrosis factor a (TNF-a) on progenitor cells in vitro. Target CFU-GM, with cloning efficiencies of up to ...

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a protein produced by activated macrophages in response to endotoxin. The effect of recombinant murine TNF (rMuTNF) on the growth of murine tissue-derived macrophage colony-forming units (CFU-M) which are responsive to both macrophage and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors (M-CSF and GM-CSF), was studied. TNF alone did not stimulate macrophage proli...

The high-affinity human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor (GMR) consists of an alpha (GMRalpha) and a common beta (betac) subunit. The intracellular domain of betac has been extensively characterized and has been shown to be critical for the activation of both the JAK/STAT and MAP kinase pathways. The function of the intracellular domain of GMRalpha, however, is...

WEHI-274.3 is a cell line isolated from an in vivo-derived, murine myelomonocytic leukemia. Although the survival and growth of WEHI-274.3 cells in vitro is absolutely dependent on the addition of exogenous growth factors such as interleukin-3 (IL-3), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), or colony-stimulating factor-I, when injected into syngeneic mice the cell line is tum...

Peripheral monocytes are short-lived and are replenished from hematopoietic stem cells whose proliferation is believed to be confined to the bone marrow. Human peripheral monocytes are assumed not to be able to proliferate. In this study we show that CD137 (ILA/4-1BB), a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family, induces a widespread and profound proliferation of human peripheral mono...

OBJECTIVES To elucidate the potential role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy and myocarditis. BACKGROUND Experimental studies show that certain cytokines depress myocardial contractility and that tumour necrosis factor-alpha plays an important part in the pathogenesis of myocardial injury in animal models of viral and autoimmune myocarditis. METHODS Plasma interleukin 1-alp...

BACKGROUND An adenovirus that expresses both interleukin (IL)-12 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating-factor (GM-CSF) has been proven to be very effective in treating several tumors, but causes serious normal tissue toxicities. METHODS In this study, a novel adenoviral vector was constructed by placing the human GM-CSF gene under the control of the CMV-IE promoter and human IL-12 gen...

Previously we have shown that the zinc finger transcription factor Egr-1 is essential for and restricts differentiation of hematopoietic cells along the macrophage lineage, raising the possibility that Egr-1 actually plays a deterministic role in governing the development of hematopoietic precursor cells along the monocytic lineage. To test this hypothesis, we have taken advantage of interleuki...