METHODS : The level of TNF-alpha secretion of PBMC in patients with chronic hepatitis C and Nonalcoholic fatty liver was detected by ELISA after culturing for 72 hours in vitro , as well as patients with chronic hepatitis C and the normal control.
The intrahepatic expression of interleukin (IL) -1 beta and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) - alpha was studied in liver specimens from patients with chronic hepatitis C (n = 29) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC ; n = 12) and from normal controls (n = 19).
We studied the acute phase regulation of murine hepatic PAI-1 in response to systemic toxicity and local tissue injury in both wild-type mice and in mice in which the interleukin (IL) -1 beta gene had been inactivated by gene targeting.
Tumor cells induced the release of interleukin (IL) -1 beta from macrophages , which induced phosphorylation of GSK3beta , stabilized beta-catenin , enhanced T-cell factor (TCF) - dependent gene activation and induced the expression of Wnt target genes in tumor cells.