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Acute intrahippocampal injection of human interleukin-1beta stimulates the anterior pituitary POMC transcription and increases plasma levels of ACTH and corticosterone in the male rat.

Abstract：

:It has been well documented that interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) is a major mediator for recruiting the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis following infectious disease. The recent localization of IL-1beta receptors in neurons of the hippocampus provides further support for the role of IL-1beta as a neurotransmitter/neuromodulator in the central nervous system. In this study, we investigated whether an acute intrahippocampal injection of IL-1beta is able to rapidly stimulate HPA activity. Seven days after bilateral implantation of a guide cannula into the hippocampus, human IL-1beta (10 ng/0.5 microliter/side) was injected to freely moving male rats. Following this, animals were sacrificed at times 20, 45 and 90 min postinjection and a kinetic analysis of hIL-1beta action on plasma ACTH and corticosterone (CORT) concentrations and nuclear processing of the anterior pituitary (AP) proopiomelanocortin (POMC) was conducted. Intrahippocampal administration of hIL-1beta significantly increased both plasma ACTH and CORT concentrations at 45 and 90 min postinjection. This increase in ACTH concentration paralleled a rise in AP POMC gene transcription. Moreover, the increase in AP POMC primary transcript was followed by an increase in AP POMC intermediate processing RNA. However, at these times, no significant hIL-1beta effect on the level of AP nuclear POMC mRNA was observed. Almost identical results were obtained after intraperitoneal injection of hIL-1beta. In conclusion, our data demonstrates that the hippocampal IL-1beta/IL-1beta receptor is directly and rapidly implicated in HPA activation, in the same manner as that observed after intraperitoneal administration of hIL-1beta. These results show that IL-1 action in the hippocampus could be of immunoneuroendocrine significance for the HPA axis activation during inflammatory states.

journal_name

Neuroendocrinology

journal_title

Neuroendocrinology

authors

Mélik Parsadaniantz S,Daugé V,Roques BP,Kerdelhué B

doi

10.1159/000054405

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-02-01 00:00:00

pages

77-87

issue

eissn

0028-3835

issn

1423-0194

pii

54405

journal_volume

pub_type

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Acute intrahippocampal injection of human interleukin-1beta stimulates the anterior pituitary POMC transcription and increases plasma levels of ACTH and corticosterone in the male rat.