Macrophage-derived superoxide is not required for nitric oxide mediated tumour cell killing by RAW 264 cells

Nitric oxide, a proposed mediator of macrophage tumour cell killing, can react with superoxide to form peroxynitrite, which is capable of reacting with a variety of biological molecules. The RAW 264 murine macrophage cell line can be stimulated by cytokines and lipopolysaccharide to produce NO by in...

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Published inAnticancer research Vol. 19; no. 1A; p. 553
Main Authors Fricker, S P, Slade, E, Powell, N A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Greece 01.01.1999
Subjects
Animals
Cell Line
Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
Macrophages - immunology
Mast-Cell Sarcoma - pathology
Mice
Nitric Oxide - physiology
omega-N-Methylarginine - pharmacology
Superoxides - metabolism
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - physiology
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Summary:Nitric oxide, a proposed mediator of macrophage tumour cell killing, can react with superoxide to form peroxynitrite, which is capable of reacting with a variety of biological molecules. The RAW 264 murine macrophage cell line can be stimulated by cytokines and lipopolysaccharide to produce NO by induction of the inducible nitric oxide synthase. We have shown that activated RAW 264 cells are cytotoxic towards P815 murine mastocytoma cells, and that addition of a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor exerts a concentration dependent protective effect. Addition of superoxide dismutase had no effect on either RAW 264 NO production or cell killing. It was shown that RAW 264 cells do not undergo an oxidative burst. These results indicate that RAW 264 tumour cell killing is primarily a nitric oxide mediated event and does not involve macrophage-derived superoxide.
ISSN:0250-7005