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Ulstrastructural localization of tumour necrosis factor-alpha

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The application of an antibody against tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) to thin sections of plastic-embedded mouse tissue has identified sites of TNF activity in normal and endotoxin-treated C3N/HeN mice. Prior to endotoxin treatment, TNF was observed in the secretory granules of the antibacterial Paneth cell and one type of crypt endocrine cell. Four hours after endotoxin treatment, these two types of intestinal cell were found to have degranulated. In addition, endotoxin treatment resulted in the appearance of TNF in the secretory granules of all eosinophils, neutrophils and monocytes in the bone marrow, spleen, lung and the proximal intestine. TNF was also observed in the internal elastic lamina (IEL) of arterioles. These results suggest that the process of TNF induction specifically targets the immune system and the vasculature. An invasive stimulus, such as circulating endotoxin, can provoke the immune cells to be armed with TNF. That same stimulus may cause arteriole smooth muscle cells to secrete TNF. TNF secretion in the presence of arteriole smooth muscle cells may play a role in the adjustment of arteriole tone. In the venules, TNF may be responsible for platelet and neutrophil accumulation which leads to embolism formation.

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  1. Department of Experimental Hematology, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, 20889-5603, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Elsa A. Schmauder-Chock & Myra L. Patchen

  2. The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard University College of Medicine, 20059, Washington, DC, USA

    Stephen P. Chock

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Schmauder-Chock, E.A., Chock, S.P. & Patchen, M.L. Ulstrastructural localization of tumour necrosis factor-alpha. Histochem J 26, 142–151 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00157963

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