• Cytokine · Jan 2006

    Plasma interleukin (IL)-18 (interferon-gamma-inducing factor) and other inflammatory cytokines in patients with gouty arthritis and monosodium urate monohydrate crystal-induced secretion of IL-18.

    • Taku Inokuchi, Yuji Moriwaki, Hiroko Tsutsui, Asako Yamamoto, Sumio Takahashi, Zenta Tsutsumi, Tuneyoshi Ka, Kenji Nakanishi, and Tetsuya Yamamoto.
    • Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan.
    • Cytokine. 2006 Jan 7; 33 (1): 21-7.

    AbstractTo determine whether levels of interleukin (IL)-18, together with those of IL-1beta, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, IL-6, and IL-8, are elevated in the plasma of patients with gouty arthritis, the plasma concentrations of those cytokines were measured in 31 males with gouty arthritis. Further, CD14+ cells were obtained from human blood and thioglycolate medium-induced peritoneal cells obtained from caspase 1-deficient mice, and then separately cultured in the presence of monosodium urate monohydrate (MSU) crystals. In addition, in an animal in vivo experiment, MSU crystals were injected into subcutaneous air pouches of IL-18-deficient mice. The plasma concentrations of IL-18, IL-6, and IL-8 were elevated in the presence of gouty arthritis in the gout patients. In the in vitro study, the presence of MSU crystals stimulated CD14+ cells (monocytes) to secrete IL-18 and increased the activity of caspase 1 in CD14+ cells, whereas there was no significant effect on IL-18 messenger RNA in CD14+ cells and only a slight induction of IL-18 secretion from thioglycolate medium-induced caspase 1-deficient peritoneal cells. In the in vivo experiment, MSU crystals injected into the air pouch promoted neutrophil accumulation along with an increase in concentrations of keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC) and macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha in air-pouch fluids in both IL-18-deficient and wild-type mice. However, there was no increase in the concentration of IL-18 in air-pouch fluids in either mouse strain. Our results suggest that plasma IL-18, IL-6, IL-8, and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels reflect local inflammation associated with gouty arthritis, though IL-18 does not play an important role in neutrophil accumulation. Further, they suggest that MSU crystals accelerate the processing of IL-18 from an inactive to active form via the activation of caspase 1.

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