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INFLAMMATION/IMMUNITY/MEDIATORS
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Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Submitted 28 April 2006 ; accepted in final form 23 July 2006
Acinar cell injury early in acute pancreatitis leads to a local inflammatory reaction and to the subsequent systemic inflammatory response, which may result in multiple organ dysfunction and death. Inflammatory mediators, including chemokines and substance P (SP), are known to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis. It has been shown that pancreatic acinar cells produce the chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in response to caerulein hyperstimulation, demonstrating that acinar-derived MCP-1 is an early mediator of inflammation in acute pancreatitis. Similarly, SP levels in the pancreas and pancreatic acinar cell expression of neurokinin-1 receptor, the primary receptor for SP, are both increased during secretagogue-induced experimental pancreatitis. This study aims to examine the functional consequences of exposing mouse pancreatic acinar cells to SP and to determine whether it leads to proinflammatory signaling, such as production of chemokines. Exposure of mouse pancreatic acini to SP significantly increased synthesis of MCP-1, macrophage inflammatory protein-1
(MIP-1), as well as MIP-2. Furthermore, SP also increased NF-
B activation. The stimulatory effect of SP was specific to chemokine synthesis through the NF-B pathway, since the increase in chemokine production was completely attenuated when pancreatic acini were pretreated with the selective NF-B inhibitor NF-B essential modulator-binding domain peptide. This study shows that SP-induced chemokine synthesis in mouse pancreatic acinar cells is NF-B dependent.
pancreatitis; monocyte chemoattractant protein-1; macrophage inflammatory protein-1; macrophage inflammatory protein-2; neurokinin-1 receptor
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