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INCONSISTENCIES BETWEEN CYTOKINE PROFILES, ANTIBODY RESPONSES, AND RESPIRATORY HYPERRESPONSIVENESS FOLLOWING DERMAL EXPOSURE TO ISOCYANATES
Citation:
SELGRADE, M. K., E. BOYKIN, N. HAYKAL-COATES, M. R. WOOLHISER, C. WIESCINSKI, D. L. ANDREWS, A. FARRAJ, D. L. DOERFLER, AND S. H. GAVETT. INCONSISTENCIES BETWEEN CYTOKINE PROFILES, ANTIBODY RESPONSES, AND RESPIRATORY HYPERRESPONSIVENESS FOLLOWING DERMAL EXPOSURE TO ISOCYANATES. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES. Society of Toxicology, RESTON, VA, 94(1):108-117, (2006).
Impact/Purpose:
to examine Cytokine profiling as a simple test to identify chemicals that pose a significant risk of occupational asthma
Description:
Cytokine profiling of local lymph node responses has been proposed as a simple test to identify chemicals, such as low molecular weight diisocyanates, that pose a significant risk of occupational asthma. Previously, we reported cytokine mRNA profiles for dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) and six isocyanates: toluene diisocyanate (TDI), diphenylmethane-4,4¿-diisocyanate (MDI), dicyclohexylmethane-4,4¿diisocyanate (HMDI), isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), p-tolyl(mono)isocyanate (TMI), and meta-tetramethylene xylene diisocyanate (TMXDI). The present study was conducted to test the hypothesis that relative differences in the cytokine profile are predictive of relative differences in total serum IgE and respiratory responses to methacholine (Mch) following dermal exposure to the chemicals. After a preliminary experiment to determine an exposure regimen sufficient to achieve responses to Mch following dermal diisocyanate exposure, BALB/c mice received 10 dermal exposures over a period of 4 wks to one of six isocyanates, DNCB, or vehicle. Mice were then challenged with increasing doses of Mch and responsiveness was assessed using whole body plethysmography. Serum antibody responses and cytokine message in the draining lymph node were also assessed. In separate experiments, cytokine protein assays were performed after 5 dermal exposures over a 2 wk period. The response pattern for IL-4, IL-10, and IL-13 for the different isocyanates was highly reproducible as determined by RNAse protection assay, RT-PCR or cytokine protein levels. However, the relative differences in Th2 cytokine profiles were not predictive of relative differences in either total serum IgE or respiratory responses to Mch following dermal exposure. The data suggest that the cytokine profiling approach needs to be further developed and refined before adoption and that other approaches to hazard identification should be pursued as well. Based on the weight of evidence from all the assays performed, it appears that all 6 isocyanates tested have some potential to cause respiratory hypersensitivity following dermal exposure.