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  • Title: Interleukin 10 and interleukin 13 synergize to inhibit vascular permeability factor release by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with lipoid nephrosis.
    Author: Matsumoto K, Ohi H, Kanmatsuse K.
    Journal: Nephron; 1997; 77(2):212-8. PubMed ID: 9346389.
    Abstract:
    It has been proposed that a vascular permeability factor (VPF) is involved in the pathogenesis of lipoid nephrosis (LN). There is now increasing evidence that interleukin 10 (IL-10) and interleukin 13 (IL-13) have regulatory effects on cytokine production by activated macrophages. These results prompted us to study the effects of recombinant human IL-10 and IL-13 on VPF secretion in LN. In the present study, we demonstrate that the regulatory cytokines IL-10 and IL-13 are potent inhibitors of the VPF activity of activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Each cytokine was found to suppress VPF secretion in a dose-dependent fashion. More importantly, the combination of the cytokines was found to give a potent synergistic suppression of VPF by concanavalin A activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with LN. When both anti-IL-10 and anti-IL-13 antibodies were added together to the peripheral blood mononuclear cells, a further increase of concanavalin A enhanced secretion of VPF occurred. These data establish IL-10 and IL-13 as potent inhibitors of VPF activity and suggest their utility in controlling deleterious VPF-mediated responses such as occur in LN patients with nephrotic syndrome.
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