PLASMA-CLEARANCE, ORGAN DISTRIBUTION AND TARGET-CELLS OF INTERLEUKIN-6 HEPATOCYTE-STIMULATING FACTOR IN THE RAT
PLASMA-CLEARANCE, ORGAN DISTRIBUTION AND TARGET-CELLS OF INTERLEUKIN-6 HEPATOCYTE-STIMULATING FACTOR IN THE RAT
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14384.x
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发表时间:
1988-11-01
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HEINRICH, PC
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CASTELL, JV;GEIGER, T;HEINRICH, PC
The plasma half-life of recombinant human interleukin-6 (rhIL-6) was determined in rats by measuring the disappearance of the biological activity as well as of the radioactivity of 125I-rhIL-6 from the circulation. The kinetics of clearance were biphasic. It consisted of a rapid initial disappearance corresponding to a half-life of 3 min, and of a second slow one corresponding to a half-life of about 55 min. By cellulose-acetate electrophoresis it was shown that rhIL-6 binds to a plasma protein resulting in a complex migrating in the .beta.-.gamma. region; 20 min after intravenous injection, about 80% of the 125I-rhIL-6 that had disappeared from the circulation was found in the liver. 125I-rhIL-6 was exclusively localized on the surface of parenchymal cells suggesting the existence of an interleukin-6 receptor on the hepatocytes.