Increased capillary permeability in rat brain induced by factors secreted by cultured C6 glioma cells: Role in peritumoral brain edema Journal Article
| Authors: | Ohnishi, T.; Sher, P. B.; Posner, J. B.; Shapiro, W. R. |
| Article Title: | Increased capillary permeability in rat brain induced by factors secreted by cultured C6 glioma cells: Role in peritumoral brain edema |
| Abstract: | To investigate whether brain tumors secrete a factor(s) responsible for peritumoral brain edema, we studied the effect of conditioned medium from cultured C6 glioma cells on rat brain capillary permeability. Three different fractions of conditioned medium were obtained. SUP-N was a culture supernatant incubated 4 hours in serum-free medium. SUP-C was the 60-100 fold concentrated fraction obtained by dialysis-concentration of SUP-N; it contained 950 μ g/ml of protein > 10 k-daltons from 3 × 108 cells. SUP-L was a water-dispersible lipid fraction from SUP-N; the major components of SUP-L were neutral lipids and free fatty acids. The supernatant fractions and their corresponding control solutions were infused into normal rat brain, and capillary permeability was determined using quantitative autoradiography by measuring the unidirectional entry constant, K (μ 1/g · min), of 14C-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (14C-AlB) into brain tissue. SUP-C and SUP-L significantly increased capillary permeability of normal brain; the effect of SUP-C was more intense and extensive than that of SUP-L. The highest mean K value (Kmax) of SUP-C was 10.83 ± 0.99 and that of the control was 2.53 ± 0.22 (p < 0.001). The Km. of SUP-L was 5.61 ± 0.23 and that of the control was 2.67 ± 0.36 (p < 0.01). A time-course study after infusion of SUP-C demonstrated that more than 1.5 hours is required for the supernatant fraction to open the barrier and that the effect of SUP-C was reversible. The increase of capillary permeability induced by SUP-C was significantly inhibited by pretreatment of rats with dexamethasone (10 mg/kg, ip) 1 hour before intracerebral infusion of SUP-C (Kmax (untreated): 8.30 ± 0.82, Kmax (treated): 1.33 ± 0.64, p < 0.001). These results indicate that experimental brain tumors secrete at least two different diffusible factors responsible for capillary endothelial leakage in normal brain. One is a protein of molecular weight greater than 10 k-daltons, whose effect is inhibited by glucocorticoids, and the other is a waterdispersible lipid. © 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers. |
| Keywords: | nonhuman; glioma; brain neoplasms; animal; animal tissue; edema; animal experiment; dexamethasone; tumor cells, cultured; time factors; tumors; rat; blood brain barrier; blood-brain barrier; rats; cerebrovascular circulation; culture media; brain edema; capillary permeability; rats, inbred strains; male; article; support, non-u.s. gov't; support, u.s. gov't, p.h.s. |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Neuro-Oncology |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 0167-594X |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Date Published: | 1991-02-01 |
| Start Page: | 13 |
| End Page: | 25 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf00151243 |
| PUBMED: | 2022971 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Article -- Export Date: 27 September 2019 -- Source: Scopus |
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