Correlation between Endotoxin Tolerance in Human Monocyte Leukemia Cell Line THP-1 with Glucocorticoid Receptor-α / 华中科技大学学报（医学）（英德文版）

ABSTRACT

Human monocyte leukemia cell line THP-1 was stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to simulate the sepsis model and the expression of human glucocorticoid receptor-α (GR-α) mRNA in montocytes with endotoxin tolerance was investigated. THP-1 cells were cultured in serum-free medium, randomly divided into groups A, B, C, D and E, and stimulated with 0, 10, 10,100, 0 ng/mL LPS for 24 h followed with 100, 100, 10, 100, 0 ng/mL LPS for another 24 h respectively. The expression of GR-α mRNA was detected by semi-quantitative reverse transcriptional polymerase chain reaction. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) was determined by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The results showed that the A values of GR-α/β-actin in groups A,B, C, D and E was 0. 607±0. 006, 0. 368±0. 005, 0. 484±0. 008, 0. 509±0. 004 and 0. 564± 0. 014 respectively with the difference being significant among the groups (P＜0. 05). The GR-α mRNA expression was negatively correlated with the TNF-α expression (P＜0.01). It was concluded that the down-regulation of the expression of GR-α mRNA in endotoxin tolerance THP-1 cells might play an important role in the development of endotoxin tolerance in THP-1 cells.