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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 142, 1831-1840, Copyright © 1993 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Immunohistochemical localization of transforming growth factor-beta 1 in rats with experimental silicosis, alveolar type II hyperplasia, and lung cancer

AO Williams, KC Flanders and U Saffiotti
Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Immunohistochemical localization of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) was studied in the lungs of rats given crystalline silica or ferric oxide by single intratracheal instillation. Ferric oxide elicited no progressive granulomatous reaction, no epithelial hyperplasia, and no lung tumors; no demonstrable reactivity to TGF-beta 1 was observed. Silica induced a granulomatous reaction with progressive fibrosis, adjacent alveolar type II hyperplasia, and alveolar carcinomas. Rabbit polyclonal antibodies to synthetic peptides corresponding to the first 30 amino acids of mature TGF-beta 1, anti-LC (1-30), and anti-CC (1-30) were used for the localization of intracellular and extracellular TGF-beta 1. An antibody to a peptide corresponding to amino acids 266-278 of the TGF-beta 1 precursor sequence, anti-Pre (266-278), was used to detect the TGF-beta precursor and the latency-associated peptide. Intracellular mature TGF-beta (anti- LC) was demonstrated in fibroblasts and macrophages located at the periphery of silicotic granulomas and in fibroblasts adjacent to hyperplastic type II cells. Extracellular mature TGF-beta 1 was localized in the connective tissue matrix of the granulomas and in the stroma of both hyperplastic type II cells and well-differentiated adenocarcinomas. Immunoreactivity to anti-Pre was localized, intracellularly, in hyperplastic alveolar type II cells and their proliferative lesions adjacent to granulomas, in adenomas, but not in adenocarcinomas. The hyperplastic type II cells appear to be the sites of production and secretion of TGF-beta 1, which may regulate their own growth and differentiation and mediate the production of extracellular TGF-beta 1-associated matrix. The lack of reactivity to TGF-beta 1 precursor in the adenocarcinomas is consistent with the loss of normal cellular differentiation and function. TGF-beta 1 appears to have a pathogenetic role in silica-induced mesenchymal and epithelial lesions. The role of TGF-beta 1 and other cytokines in silica-induced carcinogenesis requires further investigation.

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