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Macrolide antibiotics broadly and distinctively inhibit cytokine and chemokine production by COPD sputum cells in vitro.
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PMID:  21315154     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Macrolide antibiotics are known to exert anti-inflammatory actions in vivo, including certain effects in COPD patients. In order to investigate the immunomodulatory profile of activity of macrolide antibiotics, we have studied the effects of azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin and roxithromycin on the in vitro production of a panel of inflammatory mediators from cells isolated from human, steroid-naïve, COPD sputum samples. Macrolide effects were compared to three other commonly used anti-inflammatory compounds, the corticosteroid dexamethasone, the PDE4 inhibitor, roflumilast and the p38 kinase inhibitor, SB203580. Three of the four tested macrolides, azithromycin, clarithromycin and roxithromycin, exhibited pronounced, concentration-related reduction of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, TNF-α, CCL3, CCL5, CCL20, CCL22, CXCL1, CXCL5, and G-CSF release. Further slight inhibitory effects on IL-1α, CXCL8, GM-CSF, and PAI-1 production were also observed. Erythromycin was very weakly active. Qualitatively and quantitatively, macrolides exerted distinctive and, compared to other tested classes of compounds, more pronounced immunomodulatory effects, particularly in terms of chemokine (CCL3, CCL5, CCL20, CCL22, and CXCL5), IL-1β, G-CSF and PAI-1 release. The described modulation of inflammatory mediators could potentially contribute to further definition of biomarkers of macrolide anti-inflammatory activity in COPD.
Authors:
Nikola Marjanović; Martina Bosnar; Francesca Michielin; David R Willé; Tatjana Anić-Milić; Ognjen Culić; Sanja Popović-Grle; Mile Bogdan; Michael J Parnham; Vesna Eraković Haber
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-2-8
Journal Detail:
Title:  Pharmacological research : the official journal of the Italian Pharmacological Society     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1096-1186     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-2-14     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8907422     Medline TA:  Pharmacol Res     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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GlaxoSmithKline Research Centre Zagreb Limited, Zagreb, Croatia.
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