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Accumulation and adhesion of leukocytes to cardiac myocytes play important roles in the pathogenesis of inflammation-mediated myocardial injury such as ischaemia/reperfusion and myocarditis. The involvement of leukocyte chemotactic factors has been speculated in these processes. We investigated the expression of cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC) in rat cardiac myocytes. CINC is a rat equivalent of human interleukin-8. On exposure to interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes released appreciable levels of CINC both dose- and time-dependently. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and lipopolysaccharide also significantly increased CINC accumulation in the culture supernatant. CINC mRNA expression was not observed in unstimulated myocytes, however, the expression was markedly induced by exposure to IL-1 alpha with a peak elevation at 3 h. Potent chemotactic activity for neutrophils was detected in the supernatant of cultured rat cardiac myocytes by stimulation with IL-1 alpha. This IL-1 alpha-induced chemotactic activity was significantly inhibited by polyclonal anti-CINC antiserum. Addition of dexamethasone, genistein, actinomycin D or cycloheximide significantly suppressed the IL-1 alpha-induced CINC accumulation. Under hypoxia (95%N2 + 5%CO2), CINC accumulation was increased in a time-dependent manner, and reoxygenation after hypoxia further intensified CINC accumulation. This hypoxia reoxygenation-induced CINC expression was significantly inhibited by pretreatment with dexamethasone. In conclusion, inflammatory stimuli induce the expression of CINC in rat cardiac myocytes, which may lead to myocardial injury via accumulation and activation of neutrophils.
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