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BackgroundMacrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) was one of the first lymphokine activities to be discovered and was described almost 30 years ago to be a soluble factor(s) produced by activated T lymphocytes. In more recent studies, MIF has been “rediscovered” to be an abundant, pre-formed constituent of the anterior pituitary gland and the macrophage, and to be a critical component in the host response to septic shock. Pituitary-derived MIF enters the circulation after infectious or stressful stimuli and appears to act to counterregulate glucocorticoid suppression of cytokine production.Materials and MethodsImmunoelectron microscopy utilizing a combination of anti-MIF and anti-pituitary hormone-specific antibodies was used to study the ultrastructural localization of MIF within the anterior pituitary gland. Pituitaries were obtained from resting, unstimulated mice and from mice 16 hr after endotoxin administration. The release of MIF also was investigated in vitro by examining the effect of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) on the AtT-20, corticotrophic cell line.ResultsMIF localizes to granules present exclusively in ACTH and TSH secreting cells. Within each cell type, a subset of granules was found to contain both MIF and ACTH, or MIF and TSH. The pituitary content of MIF-containing granules decreased significantly after experimentally induced endotoxemia. In seven pituitaries examined 16 hr after LPS injection, the number of MIF-positive granules diminished by 38% in corticotrophic cells and by 48% in thyrotrophic cells when compared with controls (p < 0.05). CRH was observed to be a potent MIF secretagogue in vitro, inducing the release of MIF from corticotrophic cells at concentrations lower than that required for ACTH release.ConclusionsThese data provide ultrastructural information that identify MIF to be a novel anterior pituitary hormone, support earlier studies showing a time-dependent release of pituitary MIF during endotoxemia, and suggest an important, systemic role for MIF in the stress response to infection and other stimuli.

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Localization of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) to Secretory Granules within the Corticotrophic and Thyrotrophic Cells of the Pituitary Gland