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ORIGIN OF HETEROGENEITY OF INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6) LEVELS IN MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS

  • Authors:
    • A YOKOYAMA
    • N KOHNO
    • S FUJINO
    • H HAMADA
    • Y INOUE
    • S FUJIOKA
    • K HIWADA

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  • Published online on: May 1, 1994     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.1.3.507
  • Pages: 507-511
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Abstract

We measured interleukin-6 (IL-6) concentrations from 48 malignant pleural effusions by an enzyme immunoassay and found a marked heterogeneity of the concentrations. The histological type of the malignant cells and total counts or differentials of the cells in effusions could not account for the heterogeneity. We newly established five malignant cell lines and found that the amounts of IL-6 produced by them were well correlated with IL-6 concentrations of the effusions from which these lines were derived (r=0.96; p<0.01). These results suggest that a marked heterogeneity of IL-6 concentrations in malignant effusions reflects the differential production of IL-6 by malignant cells in pleural space.

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May 1994
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YOKOYAMA A, KOHNO N, FUJINO S, HAMADA H, INOUE Y, FUJIOKA S and HIWADA K: ORIGIN OF HETEROGENEITY OF INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6) LEVELS IN MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS. Oncol Rep 1: 507-511, 1994
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YOKOYAMA, A., KOHNO, N., FUJINO, S., HAMADA, H., INOUE, Y., FUJIOKA, S., & HIWADA, K. (1994). ORIGIN OF HETEROGENEITY OF INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6) LEVELS IN MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS. Oncology Reports, 1, 507-511. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.1.3.507
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YOKOYAMA, A., KOHNO, N., FUJINO, S., HAMADA, H., INOUE, Y., FUJIOKA, S., HIWADA, K."ORIGIN OF HETEROGENEITY OF INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6) LEVELS IN MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS". Oncology Reports 1.3 (1994): 507-511.
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YOKOYAMA, A., KOHNO, N., FUJINO, S., HAMADA, H., INOUE, Y., FUJIOKA, S., HIWADA, K."ORIGIN OF HETEROGENEITY OF INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6) LEVELS IN MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS". Oncology Reports 1, no. 3 (1994): 507-511. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.1.3.507