Increased sensitivity of IL-6-deficient mice to carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity and protection with an IL-6 receptor-IL-6 chimera.

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Interleukin-6 (IL-6)-deficient mice were found to be much more sensitive to liver injury by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) than mice with an intact IL-6 system. At doses of CCl4 ranging from 2 to 3.5 ml/kg body weight, mean mortality in the IL-6 gene knockout (IL-6-/-) mice was 71% at 24 hours versus 12% in normal IL-6+/+ mice. At sublethal doses, there was extensive parenchymal necrosis in the livers of...

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