@Article{,
AUTHOR = {Sabrina Devos, Rosette Van Den Heuvel, Robert Hooghe, Elisabeth L. Hooghe-Peters},
TITLE = {Limited effect of selected organic pollutants on cytokine production by peripheral blood leukocytes},
JOURNAL = {European Cytokine Network},
VOLUME = {15},
YEAR = {2004},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {145--151},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/ECN/v15n2/66394},
ISSN = {1952-4005},
ABSTRACT = {To test the hypothesis that some persistent organic pollutants contribute to the increased prevalence
of allergic disease, the effects of selected compounds on cytokine production by PBMC from control and allergic
donors were evaluated. Cells were cultured for six days in the presence of a xenobiotic (PCB 153, hexachloroben-zene,
pentachlorobenzene, pentachlorophenol, lindane, atrazine or DMSO vehicle) with phytohemagglutinin
(PHA) or <i>Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus</i> extract, then for one day in the presence of PHA + phorbol
12-myristate 13-acetate. PCB 153 reduced the levels of IL-10, IFN-γ and TNF-α. Hexachlorobenzene reduced the
levels of IL-5, IL-10 and IFN-γ. Pentachlorobenzene reduced IL-6 levels. Pentachlorophenol reduced IL-5 levels.
Lindane and atrazine reduced both IL-5 and IFN-γ. In addition, lindane reduced TNF-α levels. As these
compounds had similar effects on cells from allergic and non-allergic donors, and as these effects were, in all cases,
very limited indeed, the potential deleterious impact of the xenobiotics tested on the allergic response seems
unlikely.},
DOI = {}
}