Tolerance and sensitization to endotoxin in Kupffer cells caused by acute ethanol involve interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Ethanol changes sensitivity of Kupffer cells to endotoxin. Here, the hypothesis that interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK), a downstream signaling molecule of toll-like receptors, regulates the response to LPS in Kupffer cells after ethanol treatment was evaluated. C57BL/6 mice were given ethanol intragastrically, and LPS was injected 1 or 21 h later. One hour after ethanol treatment, serum transaminases after LPS were 60% of control, while ethanol increased these parameters about 3-fold 21 h after ethanol. Pretreatment with antibiotics blocked these effects of ethanol. In Kupffer cells from mice treated with ethanol 1 h earlier, LPS-induced TNFalpha production, and IRAK expression and activity and NFkappaB were decreased 50-60% of control. In contrast, in Kupffer cells from mice treated with ethanol 21 h earlier, LPS-induced TNFalpha production, expression and activity of IRAK were increased 1.5-fold over controls, while NFkappaB was elevated 3-fold. These data indicate that ethanol-induced tolerance and sensitization of Kupffer cells to endotoxin in mice involve IRAK.

published proceedings

  • Biochem Biophys Res Commun

author list (cited authors)

  • Yamashina, S., Wheeler, M. D., Rusyn, I., Ikejima, K., Sato, N., & Thurman, R. G.

citation count

  • 40

complete list of authors

  • Yamashina, S||Wheeler, MD||Rusyn, I||Ikejima, K||Sato, N||Thurman, RG

publication date

  • November 2000