To support the data obtained from patient samples , the levels of IL-1beta and IL-18 mRNA and protein , pulmonary inflammation , and lung fibrosis were examined in mouse models of bleomycin-induced lung injury.
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) , a nuclear enzyme activated by strand breaks in DNA , plays an important role in the tissue injury associated with inflammation.
The activity of DNA topoisomerase I present in the nuclear extract of yeast , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , was inhibited by additions of NAD , the substrate of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase.
The tritiated NAD prepared by this method can be used in the quantitative assay of the chromatin enzyme poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase.