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Departments of 1 Internal Medicine and 2 Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104; and 3 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Induction of the inducible cyclooxygenase isoform COX-2 is likely to be an important mechanism for increased prostaglandin production in renal inflammation. We examined the effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on regional renal COX-2 expression in the rat. In the inner medulla, LPS injection (4 mg/kg ip) induced a twofold and 2.5-fold increase in the levels of COX-2 mRNA and COX-2 protein, respectively. In contrast, COX-2 expression in the renal cortex was not significantly altered. COX-2 promoter transgenic mice were created using the 2.7-kb flanking region of the rat COX-2 gene. In these animals, LPS injection induced reporter gene expression predominately in the inner medulla. The LPS receptor CD14, usually regarded as a monocyte/macrophage-specific marker, was found to be abundantly expressed in the inner medulla and in dissected inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells, suggesting that it may mediate medullary COX-2 induction. CD14 was present only at low levels in cortex and cortical segments, including glomeruli. In cultured cells, it was abundant in mouse IMCD (mIMCD-K2) cells and renal medullary interstitial cells, but largely undetectable in mesangial cells and M1 cells, a cell line derived from mouse cortical collecting ducts. In the mIMCD-K2 cell line, LPS significantly induced COX-2 mRNA expression, with concomitant induction of CD14. LPS-stimulated COX-2 expression was reduced by the addition of an anti-CD14 monoclonal antibody to the culture medium. These results demonstrate that LPS selectively stimulates COX-2 expression in the renal inner medulla through a CD14-dependent mechanism.
cyclooxygenase-2; renal inner medulla; transgenic mice
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