Endocrinology, Vol 136, 897-902, Copyright © 1995 by Endocrine Society

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Central endotoxin induces different patterns of interleukin (IL)-1 beta and IL-6 messenger ribonucleic acid expression and IL-6 secretion in the brain and periphery

MG De Simoni, R Del Bo, A De Luigi, S Simard and G Forloni
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy.

Centrally injected endotoxin induced high levels of interleukin (IL)-6 in serum, but the mechanisms of this induction and the signal conveying the information from the brain to the periphery are not yet known. To help characterize the pathway of centrally mediated induction of IL-6 in periphery, the cytokine levels were measured in rat serum and cerebrospinal fluid at different times after intracerebro-ventricular endotoxin (LPS, 2.5 micrograms/rat). In the same experiments, IL-6 and IL-1 beta messenger RNA (mRNA) expression, measured by Northern blot analysis, were evaluated in the periphery (adrenals, lymph nodes, and mononuclear cells) and brain (hypothalamus, hippocampus and striatum). In serum, IL-6 levels were highest after 2h; then they rapidly decreased. IL-6 mRNA showed the same time-course in adrenals and lymph nodes. The pattern in the central nervous system was different: in the cerebrospinal fluid, IL-6 was detectable starting from 2h, reaching a plateaux at 4-8h and remaining detectable until 16 h. IL-6 mRNA expression in the brain areas showed a similar time-course, reaching a maximum at 4-8 h. IL-1 beta mRNA induction started at the same time in brain and periphery, i.e. 1 h after LPS, but the maximal effect was reached at 2 h in mononuclear cells, adrenals, and lymph nodes, and at 8 h in brain regions. The results indicate that circulating IL-6 induced by central LPS is produced mainly peripherally and that synthesis of IL-6 and IL-1 beta are regulated differently in the brain and periphery.

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