In vitro regulation of human phagocyte cytochrome b heavy and light chain gene expression by bacterial lipopolysaccharide and recombinant human cytokines

We examined the effects of bacterial lipopolysaccharide and several recombinant human cytokines (tumor necrosis factor alpha and granulocyte-, macrophage-, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors) on the expression of the genes for the phagocyte cytochrome b, an essential component of the superoxide-generating oxidase. In vitro treatment with lipopolysaccharide, tumor necrosis factor alpha, or macrophage- or granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors increased the levels of transcripts for the cytochrome b heavy chain (gp91phox) 9- to 22-fold and transcripts for the light chain (p22phox) 2- to 5-fold in cultured human monocyte-derived macrophages. The same agents, except for macrophage colony-stimulating factor, induced the expression of the cytochrome b heavy chain gene 2- to 12-fold and light chain gene 2- to 6-fold in human granulocytes. The expression of the cytochrome b heavy and light chain genes was coordinated in both macrophages and neutrophils with regard to stimulus specificity and dose-response pattern. The time course for induction of the two genes was parallel in both cell types for all stimuli. The macrophage response to lipopolysaccharide occurred at least in part at the transcriptional level. These results show that a variety of physiological regulators modulate the coordinated expression of the cytochrome b genes.

[Statistical analysis of 1016 cases of nervous system tumors in different nationalities in Xinjiang]

1016 cases of tumors of the nervous system in different nationalities in Xinjiang were collected from biopsies and autopsies from 1956 to 1985. The distribution of these tumors by nationalities were 78.93% in Han, 11.02% in Uygur, 5.42% in Hazak and 3.65% in Hui, respectively. Of 1016 cases, 644 were intracranial tumors (63.38%) with a similar distribution as showed above (80.74%, 11.33%, 4.20%, and 3.27%, respectively). Glioma was predominant in the intracranial tumors (46.11%). It was showed that there was a high incidence of tumors of the nervous system in Han and Hazak as compared with the size of their populations. There were some differences in histologic type in different nationalities.