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J Appl Physiol (May 2, 2003). doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00140.2003
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Submitted on February 10, 2003
Accepted on April 16, 2003

TNF{alpha} modulates Murine Tracheal Rings responsiveness to G-protein coupled receptor agonists and KCL

Hang Chen1, Omar Tliba1, Christopher R Van Besien1, Reynold A Panettieri1, and Yassine Amrani1*

1 Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: amrani{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.

Although the mechanisms that underlie airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) in asthma are complex and involve a variety of factors, evidence now suggests that intrinsic abnormalities in airway smooth muscle (ASM) may play an important role. We previously reported that TNF{alpha}, a cytokine involved in asthma, augments G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) agonist-evoked calcium responses in cultured ASM cells. Here we have extended our previous studies by investigating whether TNF{alpha} also modulates the contractile and relaxant responses to GPCR activation using cultured murine tracheal rings. We found that in tracheal rings treated with 50 ng/ml TNF{alpha}, carbachol-induced isometric force was significantly increased by 30% as compared with those treated with diluent alone (p < 0.05). TNF{alpha} also augmented KCl-induced force generation by 70% as compared with those treated with diluent alone (p < 0.01). The enhancing effect of TNF{alpha} on carbachol-induced isometric force generation was completely abrogated in the tracheal rings obtained from TNFR1-deficient mice and in control rings treated with a TNF{alpha} mutant that solely activates TNFR2. TNFa also attenuated relaxation responsiveness to isoproterenol but not to PGE2 or forskolin. TNF{alpha} modulatory effects on GPCR-induced ASM responsiveness were completely abrogated by pertussis toxin, an inhibitor of Gai proteins. Taken together, these data suggest that TNF{alpha} may participate in the development of AHR in asthma via the modulation of ASM responsiveness to both contractile and {beta}-adrenoceptor GPCR agonists.




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