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Williams KA, Huang AH, Belzberg M, Kwatra SG. Prurigo nodularis: Pathogenesis and management. J Am Acad Dermatol 2020; 83:1567-1575. [PMID: 32461078 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.04.182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Prurigo nodularis is a chronic skin condition characterized by severely pruritic nodules that cause a profound negative impact on quality of life. The second article in this 2-part continuing medical education series focuses on reviewing the pathogenesis of prurigo nodularis and exploring management algorithms for this condition. In addition, we discuss some emerging and novel therapies for treating prurigo nodularis. The first article in this 2-part series describes the broader epidemiology, patient demographics, physical examination findings, and symptoms to aid in the timely recognition and diagnosis of prurigo nodularis.
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- Kyle A Williams
- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Zachs DP, Offutt SJ, Graham RS, Kim Y, Mueller J, Auger JL, Schuldt NJ, Kaiser CRW, Heiller AP, Dutta R, Guo H, Alford JK, Binstadt BA, Lim HH. Noninvasive ultrasound stimulation of the spleen to treat inflammatory arthritis. Nat Commun 2019; 10:951. [PMID: 30862842 PMCID: PMC6414603 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08721-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Targeted noninvasive control of the nervous system and end-organs may enable safer and more effective treatment of multiple diseases compared to invasive devices or systemic medications. One target is the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway that consists of the vagus nerve to spleen circuit, which has been stimulated with implantable devices to improve autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. Here we report that daily noninvasive ultrasound (US) stimulation targeting the spleen significantly reduces disease severity in a mouse model of inflammatory arthritis. Improvements are observed only with specific parameters, in which US can provide both protective and therapeutic effects. Single cell RNA sequencing of splenocytes and experiments in genetically-immunodeficient mice reveal the importance of both T and B cell populations in the anti-inflammatory pathway. These findings demonstrate the potential for US stimulation of the spleen to treat inflammatory diseases.
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- Daniel P Zachs
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA.
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- Restorative Therapies Group, Medtronic plc, Minneapolis, 55432, MN, USA
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- Center for Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Restorative Therapies Group, Medtronic plc, Minneapolis, 55432, MN, USA
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- Restorative Therapies Group, Medtronic plc, Minneapolis, 55432, MN, USA
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- Center for Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Center for Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Center for Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Restorative Therapies Group, Medtronic plc, Minneapolis, 55432, MN, USA
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- Center for Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA.
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA.
- Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, MN, USA.
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Duh K, Funaro MG, DeGouveia W, Bahlani S, Pappas D, Najjar S, Tabansky I, Moldwin R, Stern JNH. Crosstalk between the immune system and neural pathways in interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. Discov Med 2018; 25:243-250. [PMID: 29906407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) is a condition causing intense pelvic pain and urinary symptoms. While it is thought to affect millions of people and significantly impair quality of life, difficulty with diagnosis and a lack of reliably effective treatment options leave much progress to be made in managing this condition. We describe what is currently known about the immunological and neurological basis of this disease, focusing on the interactions between the immune and nervous system. Evidence for immune involvement in IC/BPS comes from its high co-occurrence with known autoimmune diseases, altered cytokine profiles, and immune cell infiltration in patients. These cytokines have the ability to cross-talk with the nervous system via NGF signaling, resulting in hyper-sensitization of pain receptors, causing them to release substance P and creating a positive feedback loop of neuroinflammation. While it seems that the crosstalk between the immune and nervous system in IC is understood, much of the information comes from studying other diseases or from animal models, and it remains to be confirmed in patients with the disease. Identifying biomarkers and confirming the mechanism of IC/BPS are ultimately important for selecting drug targets and for improving the lives of patients with this disease.
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- Kevin Duh
- Departments of Neurology, Surgery, Molecular Medicine, and Science Education, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- Department of Autoimmunity, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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- Departments of Neurology, Surgery, Molecular Medicine, and Science Education, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- Department of Autoimmunity, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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- Departments of Neurology, Surgery, Molecular Medicine, and Science Education, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- Department of Autoimmunity, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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- Department of Urology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology, Northwell Health, Lake Success, NY 11042, USA
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- Departments of Neurology, Surgery, Molecular Medicine, and Science Education, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- Department of Autoimmunity, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health, New York, NY 10075, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
- These authors share co-senior authorship
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- Department of Urology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology, Northwell Health, Lake Success, NY 11042, USA
- These authors share co-senior authorship
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- Departments of Neurology, Surgery, Molecular Medicine, and Science Education, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
- Department of Autoimmunity, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
- Department of Neurology, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health, New York, NY 10075, USA
- These authors share co-senior authorship
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Buckley MM, O’Mahony SM, O’Malley D. Convergence of neuro-endocrine-immune pathways in the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20:8846-8858. [PMID: 25083058 PMCID: PMC4112880 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i27.8846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 05/29/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Disordered signalling between the brain and the gut are generally accepted to underlie the functional bowel disorder, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, partly due to the lack of disease-defining biomarkers, understanding the aetiology of this complex and multifactorial disease remains elusive. This common gastrointestinal disorder is characterised by alterations in bowel habit such as diarrhoea and/or constipation, bloating and abdominal pain, and symptom exacerbation has been linked with periods of stress, both psychosocial and infection-related. Indeed, a high level of comorbidity exists between IBS and stress-related mood disorders such as anxiety and depression. Moreover, studies have observed alterations in autonomic output and neuro-endocrine signalling in IBS patients. Accumulating evidence indicates that a maladaptive stress response, probably mediated by the stress hormone, corticotropin-releasing factor contributes to the initiation, persistence and severity of symptom flares. Other risk factors for developing IBS include a positive family history, childhood trauma, dietary factors and prior gastrointestinal infection. An emerging role has been attributed to the importance of immune factors in the pathophysiology of IBS with evidence of altered cytokine profiles and increased levels of mucosal immune cells. These factors have also been shown to have direct effects on neural signalling. This review discusses how pathological changes in neural, immune and endocrine pathways, and communication between these systems, contribute to symptom flares in IBS.
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Erickson MA, Dohi K, Banks WA. Neuroinflammation: a common pathway in CNS diseases as mediated at the blood-brain barrier. Neuroimmunomodulation 2012; 19:121-30. [PMID: 22248728 PMCID: PMC3707010 DOI: 10.1159/000330247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2011] [Accepted: 06/22/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is not simply a physical barrier but a regulatory interface between the central nervous system (CNS) and immune system. The BBB both affects and is affected by the immune system and connects at many levels with the CNS, including the following: (1) the BBB transports cytokines and secretes various substances with neuroinflammatory properties; (2) transporters are altered in disease states including traumatic injury, Alzheimer's disease and inflammatory processes; (3) cytokines and other immune secretions from the cells comprising the BBB are both constitutive and inducible; (4) immune cells are transported across the BBB by the highly regulated process termed diapedesis, which involves communication and interactions between the brain endothelial cells and the immune cells; (5) the neuroimmune system has various effects on the BBB, including modulation of important transport systems and in extreme pathological conditions even disruption of the BBB, and (6) the brain-to-blood efflux transporter P-glycoprotein is altered in inflammatory conditions, thus affecting drug delivery to the brain. In summary, the BBB is an interactive interface that regulates and defines many of the ways that the CNS and the immune system communicate with one another.
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- Michelle A. Erickson
- Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Wash., USA
- Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., USA
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- Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Wash., USA
- Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash., USA
- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Wash., USA
- Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash., USA
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Gabbay V, Ely BA, Babb J, Liebes L. The possible role of the kynurenine pathway in anhedonia in adolescents. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2011; 119:253-60. [PMID: 21786117 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-011-0685-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2011] [Accepted: 07/02/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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To address the heterogeneous nature of adolescent major depression (MDD), we investigated anhedonia, a core symptom of MDD. We recently reported activation of the kynurenine pathway (KP), a central neuroimmunological pathway which metabolizes tryptophan (TRP) into kynurenine (KYN) en route to several neurotoxins, in a group of highly anhedonic MDD adolescents. In this study, we aimed to extend our prior work and examine the relationship between KP activity and anhedonia, measured quantitatively, in a group of MDD adolescents and in a combined group of MDD and healthy control adolescents. Thirty-six adolescents with MDD (22 medication-free) and 20 controls were included in the analysis. Anhedonia scores were generated based on clinician- and subject-rated assessments and a semi-structured clinician interview. Blood KP metabolites, collected in the AM after an overnight fast, were measured using high-performance liquid chromatography. The rate-limiting enzyme of the KP, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), was estimated by the ratio of KYN/TRP. Pearson correlation tests were used to assess correlations between anhedonia scores and KP measures while controlling for MDD severity. IDO activity and anhedonia scores were positively correlated in the group psychotropic medication-free adolescents with MDD (r = 0.42, P = 0.05) and in a combined group of MDD subjects and healthy controls (including medicated patients: r = 0.30, P = 0.02; excluding medicated patients: r = 0.44, P = 0.004). In conclusions, our findings provide further support for the role for the KP, particularly IDO, in anhedonia in adolescent MDD. These results emphasize the importance of dimensional approaches in the investigation of psychiatric disorders.
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- Vilma Gabbay
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Child Study Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, 577 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Gaykema RPA, Goehler LE. Ascending caudal medullary catecholamine pathways drive sickness-induced deficits in exploratory behavior: brain substrates for fatigue? Brain Behav Immun 2011; 25:443-60. [PMID: 21075199 PMCID: PMC3039108 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2010] [Revised: 11/05/2010] [Accepted: 11/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Immune challenges can lead to marked behavioral changes, including fatigue, reduced social interest, anorexia, and somnolence, but the precise neuronal mechanisms that underlie sickness behavior remain elusive. Part of the neurocircuitry influencing behavior associated with illness likely includes viscerosensory nuclei located in the caudal brainstem, based on findings that inactivation of the dorsal vagal complex (DVC) can prevent social withdrawal. These brainstem nuclei contribute multiple neuronal projections that target different components of autonomic and stress-related neurocircuitry. In particular, catecholaminergic neurons in the ventrolateral medulla (VLM) and DVC target the hypothalamus and drive neuroendocrine responses to immune challenge, but their particular role in sickness behavior is not known. To test whether this catecholamine pathway also mediates sickness behavior, we compared effects of DVC inactivation with targeted lesion of the catecholamine pathway on exploratory behavior, which provides an index of motivation and fatigue, and associated patterns of brain activation assessed by immunohistochemical detection of c-Fos protein. LPS treatment dramatically reduced exploratory behavior, and produced a pattern of increased c-Fos expression in brain regions associated with stress and autonomic adjustments paraventricular hypothalamus (PVN), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST), central amygdala (CEA), whereas activation was reduced in regions involved in exploratory behavior (hippocampus, dorsal striatum, ventral tuberomammillary nucleus, and ventral tegmental area). Both DVC inactivation and catecholamine lesion prevented reductions in exploratory behavior and completely blocked the inhibitory LPS effects on c-Fos expression in the behavior-associated regions. In contrast, LPS-induced activation in the CEA and BST was inhibited by DVC inactivation but not by catecholamine lesion. The findings support the idea that parallel pathways from immune-sensory caudal brainstem sources target distinct populations of forebrain neurons that likely mediate different aspects of sickness. The caudal medullary catecholaminergic projections to the hypothalamus may significantly contribute to brain mechanisms that induce behavioral "fatigue" in the context of physiological stressors.
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- Ronald P A Gaykema
- Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- James M Krueger
- Department of Veterinary and Comparetive Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6520, USA.
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Ito Z, Sakamoto K, Imagama S, Matsuyama Y, Zhang H, Hirano K, Ando K, Yamashita T, Ishiguro N, Kadomatsu K. N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase-1-deficient mice show better functional recovery after spinal cord injury. J Neurosci 2010; 30:5937-47. [PMID: 20427653 PMCID: PMC6632605 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2570-09.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2009] [Revised: 12/15/2009] [Accepted: 03/08/2010] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Neurons in the adult CNS do not spontaneously regenerate after injuries. The glycosaminoglycan keratan sulfate is induced after spinal cord injury, but its biological significance is not well understood. Here we investigated the role of keratan sulfate in functional recovery after spinal cord injury, using mice deficient in N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase-1 that lack 5D4-reactive keratan sulfate in the CNS. We made contusion injuries at the 10th thoracic level. Expressions of N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase-1 and keratan sulfate were induced after injury in wild-type mice, but not in the deficient mice. The wild-type and deficient mice showed similar degrees of chondroitin sulfate induction and of CD11b-positive inflammatory cell recruitment. However, motor function recovery, as assessed by the footfall test, footprint test, and Basso mouse scale locomotor scoring, was significantly better in the deficient mice. Moreover, the deficient mice showed a restoration of neuromuscular system function below the lesion after electrical stimulation at the occipito-cervical area. In addition, axonal regrowth of both the corticospinal and raphespinal tracts was promoted in the deficient mice. In vitro assays using primary cerebellar granule neurons demonstrated that keratan sulfate proteoglycans were required for the proteoglycan-mediated inhibition of neurite outgrowth. These data collectively indicate that keratan sulfate expression is closely associated with functional disturbance after spinal cord injury. N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase-1-deficient mice are a good model to investigate the roles of keratan sulfate in the CNS.
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- Zenya Ito
- Departments of Biochemistry and
- Orthopedics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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- Departments of Biochemistry and
- Orthopedics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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- Orthopedics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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- Orthopedics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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- Orthopedics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, and
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- Orthopedics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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- Departments of Biochemistry and
- Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Schneider D. Relating immune and stress responses to infection resistance and tolerance. Brain Behav Immun 2010; 24:193. [PMID: 19878717 PMCID: PMC4368193 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2009.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2009] [Accepted: 10/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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- David Schneider
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, D333 Fairchild Building, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94315-5124, USA. dschneider@stanford
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During the last two decades, a wealth of animal and human studies has implicated inflammation-derived oxidative stress and cytokine-dependent neurotoxicity in the progressive degeneration of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway, the hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this review, we discuss the various hypotheses regarding the role of microglia and other immune cells in PD pathogenesis and progression, the inflammatory mechanisms implicated in disease progression from pre-clinical and clinical studies, the recent evidence that systemic inflammation can trigger microglia activation in PD-relevant central nervous system regions, the synergism between gene products linked to parkinsonian phenotypes (alpha-synuclein, parkin, Nurr1, and regulator of G-protein signaling-10) and neuroinflammation in promoting neurodegeneration of the nigrostriatal pathway, and the latest update on meta-analysis of epidemiological studies on the risk-lowering effects of anti-inflammatory drug regimens.
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- Jae-Kyung Lee
- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Gaykema RPA, Daniels TE, Shapiro NJ, Thacker GC, Park SM, Goehler LE. Immune challenge and satiety-related activation of both distinct and overlapping neuronal populations in the brainstem indicate parallel pathways for viscerosensory signaling. Brain Res 2009; 1294:61-79. [PMID: 19646973 PMCID: PMC2748103 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2009] [Revised: 07/21/2009] [Accepted: 07/22/2009] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Caudal brainstem viscerosensory nuclei convey information about the body's internal state to forebrain regions implicated in feeding behavior and responses to immune challenge, and may modulate ingestive behavior following immune activation. Illness-induced appetite loss might be attributed to accentuated "satiety" pathways, activation of a distinct "danger channel" separate from satiety pathways, or both. To evaluate neural substrates that could mediate the effects of illness on ingestive behavior, we analyzed the pattern and phenotypes of medullary neurons responsive to consumption of a preferred food, sweetened milk, and to intraperitoneal lipopolysaccharide challenge that reduced sweetened milk intake. Brainstem sections were stained for c-Fos, dopamine beta-hydroxylase, phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase, and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) immunoreactivity. Sweetened milk intake activated many neurons throughout the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), including A2 noradrenergic neurons in the caudal half of the NTS. LPS challenge activated a similar population of neurons in the NTS, in addition to rostral C2 adrenergic and mid-level A2 noradrenergic neurons in the NTS, many C1 and A1 neurons in the ventrolateral medulla, and in GLP-1 neurons in the dorsal medullary reticular nucleus. Increased numbers of activated GLP-1 neurons in the NTS were only associated with sweetened milk ingestion. Evidence for parallel processing was reflected in the parabrachial nucleus, where sweetened milk intake resulted in activation of the inner external lateral, ventrolateral and central medial portions, whereas LPS challenge induced c-Fos expression in the outer external lateral portions. Thus, signals generated in response to potentially dangerous physiological conditions seem to be propagated via specific populations of catecholaminergic neurons in the NTS and VLM, and likely include a pathway through the external lateral PBN. The data indicate that immune challenge engages multiple ascending neural pathways including both a distinct catecholaminergic "danger" pathway, and a possibly multimodal pathway derived from the NTS.
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- Ronald P A Gaykema
- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology and Behavior, Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia School of Nursing, P.O. Box 800782 Charlottesville, VA 22908-0782, USA
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Wu YF, Qiu YH, Cao BB, Wang F, Peng YP. [Involvement of cerebellohypothalamic projections in the modulation of lymphocyte function by cerebellar fastigial nuclei]. Zhongguo Ying Yong Sheng Li Xue Za Zhi 2008; 24:457-462. [PMID: 21158152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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AIM To explore the effect of cerebellar fastigial nuclei (FN)on lymphocyte function and the pathway mediating the effect. METHODS Kainic acid (KA) was microinjected into bilateral FN of rats to destroy neuronal bodies in the FN. On the eighth day after the surgery, lymphocyte percentage in the peripheral blood and level of sheep red blood cell(SRBC)-specific IgM antibody in the serum were measured by using blood corpuscle counter and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), respectively.A technology of electrolytic lesion was used to destroy the projections of cerebellar FN neurons to hypothalamus in decussation of superior cerebellar peduncle(xscp). RESULTS On the eighth day after the microinjection of KA into the bilateral FN of rats, the Nissl-stained neuronal bodies in the FN disappeared and glia could proliferated within the damaged FN. In the nuclei close to FN, the interposed nuclei and the dentate nuclei, Nissl-stained neurons still could be seen. On the control cerebellar sections, in which FN was infused with saline, we could see the normal Nissl-stained neurons in the FN and the other two nuclei.On day 8 following the effective FN lesions, both the lymphocyte percentage in the peripheral blood and the level of anti-SRBC IgM antibody in the serum were significantly increased in comparison with those of control rats infused with saline in the FN. On the eighth day after electrolytic lesion of the fibres in xscp, the FN-hypothalamic projections were damaged and there were no visible BDA-positive endings in hypothalamus. Meanwhile, both the lymphocyte percentage in the peripheral blood and the level of anti-SRBC IgM antibody in the serum were remarkably enhanced relative to those of control rats with sham lesion of xscp. CONCLUSION The electrolytic lesion of the FN-hypothalamic projections in xscp causes an enhancement of lymphocyte function similar to that of KA lesions of neuronal soma in the FN. These findings suggest that the cerebellohypothalamic projections participate in mediating the modulation of lymphocyte function by the cerebellum.
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- Ya-fang Wu
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong 226001, China
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW In the century since the discovery of anaphylaxis, research has yet to identify the mechanisms that cause a localized allergic response to become rapidly generalized, and particularly why only some sensitized individuals develop the clinical reaction on exposure. The possible components and steps in the process (proven and hypothetical) are reviewed with respect to their variation and regulation and their potential for therapeutic intervention. RECENT FINDINGS Studies of insect sting allergy have revealed some of the gaps in our understanding, the relatively poor predictive value of our diagnostic tests, and more recently the early evidence for 'priming' of basophils and mast cells as a precursor or predictor of clinical reactivity. Recent literature has elucidated some of the products and regulatory pathways of the cells involved in the initiation of the anaphylactic response, the role of neurologic pathways, and the possible 'on-off switches' at the level of the immunoglobulin E receptors and their related signaling pathways. SUMMARY This review incorporates old and new observations that may be related to the puzzling characteristics of anaphylaxis. Recognizing the gaps in our understanding helps to identify many areas that require further study and presents promising targets for future treatment and prevention of anaphylaxis.
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- David Bk Golden
- Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA.
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Getts DR, Matsumoto I, Müller M, Getts MT, Radford J, Shrestha B, Campbell IL, King NJC. Role of IFN-gamma in an experimental murine model of West Nile virus-induced seizures. J Neurochem 2007; 103:1019-30. [PMID: 17854352 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04798.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Seizures are a major complication of viral encephalitis. However, the mechanisms of seizure-associated neuronal dysfunction remain poorly understood. We report that intranasal inoculation with West Nile virus (WNV) (Sarafend) causes limbic seizures in C57BL/6 mice, but not in interferon (IFN)-gamma-deficient (IFN-gamma-/-) mice. Both strains showed similar levels of virus in the brain, as well as similar concentrations of the cytokines, tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-6, both of which can alter neuronal excitability. Experiments in chimeric IFN-gamma-/- mice reconstituted with IFN-gamma-producing leukocytes showed that IFN-gamma is not required during central nervous system infection for limbic seizure development, suggesting a role for IFN-gamma in the developing brain. This was supported responses to pentylenetetrazole, kainic acid (KA), and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA). Both strains of mice exhibited similar behavior after pentylenetetrazole challenge. However, while NMDA and KA treatment resulted in characteristic seizures in C57BL/6 mice, these responses were diminished (NMDA treatment) or absent (KA treatment) in IFN-gamma-/- mice. Furthermore, NMDA-receptor blockade with MK-801 in WNV-infected C57BL/6 mice abrogated seizures and prolonged survival. Our data show that IFN-gamma plays an important role in the development of the excitatory seizure pathways in the brain and that these cascades become pathogenic in encephalitic WNV infection.
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- Daniel R Getts
- The Discipline of Pathology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Deak T. From hippocampus to dorsal horn: the pervasive impact of IL-1 on learning and memory spans the length of the neuroaxis. Brain Behav Immun 2007; 21:746-7. [PMID: 17493784 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2007.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2007] [Accepted: 04/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Terrence Deak
- Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA.
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Lowry CA, Hollis JH, de Vries A, Pan B, Brunet LR, Hunt JRF, Paton JFR, van Kampen E, Knight DM, Evans AK, Rook GAW, Lightman SL. Identification of an immune-responsive mesolimbocortical serotonergic system: potential role in regulation of emotional behavior. Neuroscience 2007; 146:756-72. [PMID: 17367941 PMCID: PMC1868963 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.01.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2006] [Revised: 01/30/2007] [Accepted: 01/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Peripheral immune activation can have profound physiological and behavioral effects including induction of fever and sickness behavior. One mechanism through which immune activation or immunomodulation may affect physiology and behavior is via actions on brainstem neuromodulatory systems, such as serotonergic systems. We have found that peripheral immune activation with antigens derived from the nonpathogenic, saprophytic bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, activated a specific subset of serotonergic neurons in the interfascicular part of the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRI) of mice, as measured by quantification of c-Fos expression following intratracheal (12 h) or s.c. (6 h) administration of heat-killed, ultrasonically disrupted M. vaccae, or heat-killed, intact M. vaccae, respectively. These effects were apparent after immune activation by M. vaccae or its components but not by ovalbumin, which induces a qualitatively different immune response. The effects of immune activation were associated with increases in serotonin metabolism within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, consistent with an effect of immune activation on mesolimbocortical serotonergic systems. The effects of M. vaccae administration on serotonergic systems were temporally associated with reductions in immobility in the forced swim test, consistent with the hypothesis that the stimulation of mesolimbocortical serotonergic systems by peripheral immune activation alters stress-related emotional behavior. These findings suggest that the immune-responsive subpopulation of serotonergic neurons in the DRI is likely to play an important role in the neural mechanisms underlying regulation of the physiological and pathophysiological responses to both acute and chronic immune activation, including regulation of mood during health and disease states. Together with previous studies, these findings also raise the possibility that immune stimulation activates a functionally and anatomically distinct subset of serotonergic neurons, different from the subset of serotonergic neurons activated by anxiogenic stimuli or uncontrollable stressors. Consequently, selective activation of specific subsets of serotonergic neurons may have distinct behavioral outcomes.
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- C A Lowry
- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Dorothy Hodgkin Building, Bristol BS1 3NY, UK.
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Mogi M, Kondo T, Mizuno Y, Nagatsu T. p53 protein, interferon-γ, and NF-κB levels are elevated in the parkinsonian brain. Neurosci Lett 2007; 414:94-7. [PMID: 17196747 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2006] [Revised: 10/21/2006] [Accepted: 12/05/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We and other workers found markedly increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines and apoptosis-related proteins in parkinsonian brain. Although the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains enigmatic, apoptosis might be involved in the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in PD. To investigate the possible presence of other inflammatory cytokines and/or apoptosis-related protein, the levels of p53 protein, interferon-gamma, and NF-kappaB were measured for the first time in the brain (substantia nigra, caudate nucleus, putamen, cerebellum, and frontal cortex) from control and parkinsonian patients by a highly sensitive sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The p53 protein level in the caudate nucleus was significantly higher in parkinsonian patients than in controls (P<0.05), whereas this protein in the substantia nigra, putamen, and cerebral cortex showed no significant difference between parkinsonian and control subjects. The interferon-gamma level was significantly higher in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic regions (substantia nigra, caudate nucleus, and putamen) in parkinsonian patients than in the controls (P<0.05), but was not significantly different in the cerebellum or frontal cortex between the two groups. In accordance with previous immunohistochemical analysis, the NF-kappaB level in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic regions was significantly higher in parkinsonian patients than in the controls (P<0.05). These data suggest that the significant increase in the levels of p53 protein, interferon-gamma, and NF-kappaB reflect apoptosis and the inflammatory state in the parkinsonian brain and that their elevation is involved in the degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons.
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- Makio Mogi
- Department of Medicinal Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy, Aichi-Gakuin University, Nagoya 464-8650, Japan.
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Ciesielska A, Joniec I, Kurkowska-Jastrzebska I, Przybyłkowski A, Gromadzka G, Członkowska A, Członkowski A. Influence of age and gender on cytokine expression in a murine model of Parkinson's disease. Neuroimmunomodulation 2007; 14:255-65. [PMID: 18196934 DOI: 10.1159/000113432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2007] [Accepted: 10/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The neuroinflammatory reaction has been linked with Parkinson's disease. One of the hypotheses to explain the significance of age and gender (male predominance) effects on neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease may result from a link between these risk factors and the inflammatory processes. Here, we investigated the expression of inflammatory mediators in relation to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropiridine (MPTP)-induced neurodegenerative processes in nigrostriatal pathway in young and aged male and female mice. METHODS AND RESULTS We simultaneously assessed striatal tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) protein concentrations (Western blotting) and cytokine (TNFalpha, IFNgamma, IL-1beta, IL-6 and TGFbeta(1)) mRNA levels (RT-PCR) in young and aged (2- and 12-month-old) C57BL/6 male and female mice after 6 h, 1, 3, 7, 14, 21 days after MPTP intoxication. Western blotting analysis showed that at the early time points, males showed a greater reduction in striatal TH versus females. Additionally, in contrast to the aged mice, in young males and females the TH concentration gradually increased between the 7th and the 21st day after intoxication. The increases in TNFalpha, IL-1beta and IFNgamma after intoxication were faster in both young and aged males than females. In males (both ages), we observed an increase in TGFbeta(1) at the early time points. In contrast, in females (both ages) TGFbeta(1) was elevated at later time points. MPTP caused an increase in IL-6 in males and females, but this increase was significantly higher in females. CONCLUSIONS A gender and age skewing of the cytokine gene expression in the striatum after intoxication may be related to the greater susceptibility in males as well as older animals to the detrimental effects of MPTP.
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- Agnieszka Ciesielska
- Second Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
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Gaykema RPA, Chen CC, Goehler LE. Organization of immune-responsive medullary projections to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, central amygdala, and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: evidence for parallel viscerosensory pathways in the rat brain. Brain Res 2006; 1130:130-45. [PMID: 17169348 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2006] [Revised: 10/03/2006] [Accepted: 10/12/2006] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Immune-responsive neurons in the brainstem, primarily in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and ventrolateral medulla (VLM), contribute to a significant drive on forebrain nuclei responsible for brain-mediated host defense responses. The current study investigated the relative contribution of brainstem-derived ascending pathways to forebrain immune-responsive nuclei in the rat by means of retrograde tract tracing and c-Fos immunohistochemistry. Fluorogold was iontophoresed into the bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BST), central nucleus of the amygdala (CEA), paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN), and the pontine lateral parabrachial nucleus (PBL; an important component of ascending viscerosensensory pathways) followed 2 weeks later by intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 0.1 mg/kg) or saline. The NTS and VLM provide immune-responsive input to all four regions, via direct, predominantly catecholaminergic, projections to the PVN, the lateral BST, and the CEA, and mostly non-catecholaminergic projections to the PBL. The PBL provides a major LPS-activated input to the BST and CEA. The pattern of LPS-activated catecholaminergic projections from the VLM and NTS to the forebrain is characterized by a strong predominance of VLM input to the PVN, whereas the NTS provides a greater contribution to the BST. These findings indicate that direct and indirect pathways originate in the caudal brainstem that propagate immune-related information from the periphery with multiple levels of processing en route to the forebrain nuclei, which may allow for integration of brain responses to infection.
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- Ronald P A Gaykema
- Program in Sensory and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 400400, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA
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Mathew RM, Vandenberghe R, Garcia-Merino A, Yamamoto T, Landolfi JC, Rosenfeld MR, Rossi JE, Thiessen B, Dropcho EJ, Dalmau J. Orchiectomy for suspected microscopic tumor in patients with anti-Ma2-associated encephalitis. Neurology 2006; 68:900-5. [PMID: 17151337 PMCID: PMC1909749 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000252379.81933.80] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To report the presence of microscopic neoplasms of the testis in men with anti-Ma2-associated encephalitis (Ma2-encephalitis) and to discuss the clinical implications. METHODS Orchiectomy specimens were examined using immunohistochemistry with Ma2 and Oct4 antibodies. RESULTS Among 25 patients with Ma2-encephalitis younger than 50 years, 19 had germ-cell tumors, and 6 had no evidence of cancer. These 6 patients underwent orchiectomy because they fulfilled five criteria: 1) demonstration of anti-Ma2 antibodies in association with MRI or clinical features compatible with Ma2-encephalitis, 2) life-threatening or progressive neurologic deficits, 3) age < 50 years, 4) absence of other tumors, and 5) new testicular enlargement or risk factors for germ-cell tumors, mainly cryptorchidism or ultrasound evidence of testicular microcalcifications. All orchiectomy specimens showed intratubular-germ cell neoplasms unclassified type (IGCNU) and other abnormalities including microcalcifications, atrophy, fibrosis, inflammatory infiltrates, or hypospermatogenesis. Ma2 was expressed by neoplastic cells in three of three patients examined. Even though most patients had severe neurologic deficits at the time of orchiectomy (median progression of symptoms, 10 months), 4 had partial improvement and prolonged stabilization (8 to 84 months, median 22.5 months) and two did not improve after the procedure. CONCLUSIONS In young men with Ma2-encephalitis, 1) the disorder should be attributed to a germ-cell neoplasm of the testis unless another Ma2-expressing tumor is found, 2) negative tumor markers, ultrasound, body CT, or PET do not exclude an intratubular germ-cell neoplasm of the testis, and 3) if no tumor is found, the presence of the five indicated criteria should prompt consideration of orchiectomy.
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- R M Mathew
- Department of Neurology, Division Neuro-oncology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Recent studies have suggested an important relationship linking cytokines, immunity and aggressive behavior. Clinical reports describe increasing levels of hostility, anger, and irritability in patients who receive cytokine immunotherapy, and there are reports of a positive correlation between cytokine levels and aggressive behavior in non-patient populations. On the basis of these reports and others describing the presence or actions of different cytokines in regions of the brain associated with aggressive behavior, our laboratory embarked upon a program of research designed to identify and characterize the role of IL-1 and IL-2 in the hypothalamus and midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG)--two regions functionally linked through reciprocal anatomical connections--in the regulation of feline defensive rage. A paradigm involved cytokine microinjections into either medial hypothalamus and elicitation of defensive rage behavior from the PAG or vice versa. These studies have revealed that both cytokines have potent effects in modulating defensive rage behavior. With respect to IL-1, this cytokine facilitates defensive rage when microinjected into either the medial hypothalamus or PAG and these potentiating effects are mediated through 5-HT2 receptors. In contrast, the effects of IL-2 are dependent upon the anatomical locus. IL-2 microinjected into the medial hypothalamus suppresses defensive rage and this suppression is mediated through GABA(A) receptors, while microinjections of IL-2 in the PAG potentiate defensive rage, in which these effects are mediated through NK-1 receptors. Present research is designed to further delineate the roles of cytokines in aggressive behavior and to begin to unravel the possible signaling pathways involved this process.
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- Steven S Zalcman
- Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
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Mravec B, Gidron Y, Kukanova B, Bizik J, Kiss A, Hulin I. Neural-endocrine-immune complex in the central modulation of tumorigenesis: facts, assumptions, and hypotheses. J Neuroimmunol 2006; 180:104-16. [PMID: 16945428 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2006.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2006] [Revised: 07/07/2006] [Accepted: 07/07/2006] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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For the precise coordination of systemic functions, the nervous system uses a variety of peripherally and centrally localized receptors, which transmit information from internal and external environments to the central nervous system. Tight interconnections between the immune, nervous, and endocrine systems provide a base for monitoring and consequent modulation of immune system functions by the brain and vice versa. The immune system plays an important role in tumorigenesis. On the basis of rich interconnections between the immune, nervous and endocrine systems, the possibility that the brain may be informed about tumorigenesis is discussed in this review article. Moreover, the eventual modulation of tumorigenesis by central nervous system is also considered. Prospective consequences of the interactions between tumor and brain for diagnosis and therapy of cancer are emphasized.
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- Boris Mravec
- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Sasinkova 4, 811 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Dénes A, Boldogkoi Z, Hornyák A, Palkovits M, Kovács KJ. Attenuated pseudorabies virus-evoked rapid innate immune response in the rat brain. J Neuroimmunol 2006; 180:88-103. [PMID: 16930726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2006.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2006] [Revised: 07/06/2006] [Accepted: 07/07/2006] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Ba-DupGreen (BDG) is a highly attenuated, Bartha-derived pseudorabies virus (PRV) expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) with immediate-early kinetics. Innate immune mechanisms underlying the low infectivity of the virus and the disappearance of infected neurons from the brain were studied at cellular level following injection of BDG into the spleen. The temporal shift in the expression between GFP and viral structural proteins allowed us to discriminate three stages of viral infection in the compromised neurons in correlation with the ongoing local inflammatory response. Iba1/lectin/OX42-positive microglia were recruited to infected neurons within 4-6 h following the initiation of virus replication, incorporated BrdU, isolated the infected cells before the disintegration of their membranes and phagocytosed collapsed neurons. Ex vivo-labeled blood and bone marrow-derived leukocytes, including ED-1-positive macrophages were involved in the immune cell assembly around compromised neurons, which resulted in the complete clearance of infected neurons from the early-infected brain regions.
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- Adám Dénes
- Laboratory of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Szigony u. 43. Budapest, H-1083, Hungary.
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Serrats J, Sawchenko PE. CNS activational responses to staphylococcal enterotoxin B: T-lymphocyte-dependent immune challenge effects on stress-related circuitry. J Comp Neurol 2006; 495:236-54. [PMID: 16435288 DOI: 10.1002/cne.20872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is a bacterial superantigen that engages the immune system in a T-lymphocyte-dependent manner and induces a cytokine profile distinct from that elicited by the better-studied bacterial pathogen analog, lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Because of reports of SEB recruiting central nervous system (CNS) host defense mechanisms via pathways in common with LPS, we sought to further characterize central systems impacted by this agent. Rats were treated with SEB at doses of 50-5,000 mug/kg, and killed 0.5-6 hours thereafter. SEB injection produced a discrete pattern of Fos induction in brain that peaked at 2-3 hours postinjection and whose strength was dose-related. Induced Fos expression was predominantly subcortical and focused in a set of interconnected central autonomic structures, including aspects of the bed n. of the stria terminalis, central amygdala and lateral parabrachial nuclei; functionally related (and LPS-responsive) cell groups in the n. solitary tract, ventrolateral medulla, and paraventricular hypothalamic n. (PVH) were, by contrast, weakly responsive. SEB also activated cell groups in the limbic forebrain (lateral septal n, medial prefrontal cortex) and hypothalamic GABAergic neurons, which could account for its failure to elicit reliable increases in Fos-ir or corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) mRNA in the PVH. SEB nevertheless did provoke reliable pituitary-adrenal secretory responses. The identification of subsets of central autonomic and limbic forebrain structures that are sensitive to SEB provides a basis for a systems-level understanding of the physiological and behavioral effects attributed to the superantigen. Core SEB-responsive cell groups exclude a medullary-PVH circuit implicated in pituitary-adrenal responses to LPS.
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- Jordi Serrats
- Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and The Foundation for Medical Research, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Nakamura Y, Nakamura K, Matsumura K, Kobayashi S, Kaneko T, Morrison SF. Direct pyrogenic input from prostaglandin EP3 receptor-expressing preoptic neurons to the dorsomedial hypothalamus. Eur J Neurosci 2006; 22:3137-46. [PMID: 16367780 PMCID: PMC2441892 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04515.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Fever is induced by a neuronal mechanism in the brain. Prostaglandin (PG) E2 acts as a pyrogenic mediator in the preoptic area (POA) probably through the EP3 subtype of PGE receptor expressed on GABAergic neurons, and this PGE2 action triggers neuronal pathways for sympathetic thermogenesis in peripheral effector organs including brown adipose tissue (BAT). To explore pyrogenic efferent pathways from the POA, we determined projection targets of EP3 receptor-expressing POA neurons with a special focus on rat hypothalamic regions including the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus (DMH), which is known as a center for autonomic responses to stress. Among injections of cholera toxin b-subunit (CTb), a retrograde tracer, into hypothalamic regions at the rostrocaudal level of the DMH, injections into the DMH, lateral hypothalamic area (LH) and dorsal hypothalamic area (DH) resulted in EP3 receptor immunolabelling in substantial populations of CTb-labeled neurons in the POA. Bilateral microinjections of muscimol, a GABA(A) receptor agonist, into the DMH and a ventral region of the DH, but not those into the LH, inhibited thermogenic (BAT sympathetic nerve activity, BAT temperature, core body temperature and expired CO2) and cardiovascular (arterial pressure and heart rate) responses to an intra-POA PGE2 microinjection. Further immunohistochemical observations revealed a close association of POA-derived GABAergic axon swellings with DMH neurons projecting to the medullary raphe regions where sympathetic premotor neurons for febrile and thermoregulatory responses are localized. These results suggest that a direct projection of EP3 receptor-expressing POA neurons to the DMH/DH region mediates febrile responses via a GABAergic mechanism.
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- Yoshiko Nakamura
- Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 505 NW 185th Avenue, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA.
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Kerr DA, Calabresi PA. 2004 Pathogenesis of rare neuroimmunologic disorders, Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD, August 19th 2004-August 20th 2004. J Neuroimmunol 2005; 159:3-11. [PMID: 15762022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Douglas A Kerr
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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We report a paraneoplastic neuropathy with severe motor involvement following sensory-ataxic disturbance. Anti-disialosyl immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody was detected in the course of malignant lymphoma of diffuse large B-cell type, which usually spares the motor system. Onset was subacute, with relapsing and remitting sensory ataxia, muscle weakness, bulbar palsy, respiratory paralysis, and ophthalmoplegia; only neck rotation was retained in the terminal stage. Autopsy showed no lymphoma cells infiltrating the nervous system. Motor neurons survived in the spinal cord, but mean diameter of the ventral spinal nerve roots was reduced considerably. The gracile fasciculus and the sural nerve were more markedly degenerated than proximal portions. Morphometric study showed that most of the proximal motor and sensory axons did not extend distally. This autopsy report provides further definition of a neuropathy associated with malignant lymphoma and IgM antibodies against disialosyl residues.
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- Michio Kobayashi
- Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1, Hondo, Akita 010-8543, Japan
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Allergy is a systemic disorder that can affect the nose, lungs, eyes, skin, and gastrointestinal tract, simultaneously or in succession, during the course of a patient's life. The reason for the variety in clinical expression of allergic disease is not known. Genetic predisposition, as well as environmental factors, contribute to the development of the allergic phenotype. Local and systemic inflammatory processes also seem to play a role; however, their exact contribution to the clinical manifestation of airway allergy still remains to be clarified. Although it is clear that allergen exposure of a sensitized target organ is associated with immunopathologic changes at the level of other target organs, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are far from being resolved. Today, most data suggest a systemic link between mucosal sites, involving the bloodstream, bone marrow, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue. This review will focus on the interaction between the nose and lungs in allergic disease and the possible implications for the gastrointestinal mucosa.
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- Gert-Jan Braunstahl
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Vallières N, Berard JL, David S, Lacroix S. Systemic injections of lipopolysaccharide accelerates myelin phagocytosis during Wallerian degeneration in the injured mouse spinal cord. Glia 2005; 53:103-13. [PMID: 16206158 DOI: 10.1002/glia.20266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The phagocytic cell response within the injured spinal cord is inefficient, allowing myelin debris to remain for prolonged periods of time within white matter tracts distal to the injury. Several proteins associated with this degenerating myelin are inhibitory to axon growth and therefore prevent severed axons from regenerating. Inflammatory agents such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) can stimulate both the migration and phagocytic activity of macrophages. Using in situ hybridization, we found that the expression of the LPS membrane receptor, CD14, was enhanced in the mouse dorsal column following a dorsal hemisection. Double labeling studies showed that microglia and macrophages are the two major cell types expressing CD14 mRNA following spinal cord injury (SCI). We therefore tested whether systemic injections of LPS would increase the number and phagocytic activity of macrophages/microglia in the ascending sensory tract (AST) of the mouse dorsal column following a dorsal hemisection. Mice were treated daily via intraperitoneal injections of either LPS or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). At 7 days post-SCI, greater numbers of activated mononuclear phagocytes were present in the AST undergoing Wallerian degeneration (WD) in LPS-treated animals compared with controls. Animals treated with LPS also exhibited greater Oil Red O staining, which is specific for degenerating myelin and macrophages phagocytosing myelin debris. Myelin clearance was confirmed at 7 days using Luxol Fast Blue staining and on toluidine blue-stained semi-thin sections. These results indicate that it is possible to manipulate the innate immune response to accelerate myelin clearance during WD in the injured mouse spinal cord.
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- Nicolas Vallières
- Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada
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Loum-Ribot E, Lafon P, Chaigniau M, Pape JR, Tramu G, Corio M. Paraventricular nucleus neurons producing neurotensin after lipopolysaccharide treatment project to the median eminence. Brain Res 2004; 1030:294-6. [PMID: 15571678 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Inflammation consists in secretion of cytokines that stimulate the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to release the anti-inflammatory corticosterone. Upstream in this axis are corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) whose multipeptidergic phenotype changes: both corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNAs and neurotensin mRNAs are up-regulated. Combining in situ hybridization with a retrograde neuronal marker, we demonstrated that neurotensin-containing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus project to the median eminence.
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- Elodie Loum-Ribot
- Laboratoire des Régulations Neuroendocriniennes, EA2972, Université Bordeaux 1, avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France.
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Wrona D, Klejbor I, Trojniar W. Chronic electric stimulation of the midbrain ventral tegmental area increases spleen but not blood natural killer cell cytotoxicity in rats. J Neuroimmunol 2004; 155:85-93. [PMID: 15342199 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2004] [Revised: 05/12/2004] [Accepted: 06/04/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Previously we found that in conscious, freely behaving rats chronic electric stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus (LH) caused significant augmentation of natural killer cell cytotoxicity (NKCC) and a large granular lymphocyte (LGL) number more pronounced in the spleen than in the peripheral blood. The LH belongs to the so-called "brain reward system", a collection of the central structures whose activation produce positive emotions. The midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA) is another prominent reward-relevant structure. In the present work, chronic electric stimulation of VTA (constant current 0.1 ms duration cathodal pulses delivered at frequency 50 Hz during 60 min daily session for 14 consecutive days) caused in rats an increase in the spleen but not in the peripheral blood NKCC (chromium release assay) without simultaneous effect on the number of large granular lymphocytes (LGL) (morphological method) and plasma level of prolactin (PRL), growth hormone (GH), corticosterone (COR), and testosterone (TST). This effect was anatomically specific as no influence of analogous thalamic stimulation on immune and endocrine response was found. The results obtained indicate that both reward-related areas VTA and LH enhance the cell-mediated immune response, represented by natural killer cytotoxicity, especially in the spleen. However, the effect pronounced by VTA is weaker than that of LH, possibly due to additional connections of LH with the hormonal and/or autonomic control systems.
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- Danuta Wrona
- Department of Animal Physiology, University of Gdańsk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland.
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Richlin VA, Arevalo JMG, Zack JA, Cole SW. Stress-induced enhancement of NF-kappaB DNA-binding in the peripheral blood leukocyte pool: effects of lymphocyte redistribution. Brain Behav Immun 2004; 18:231-7. [PMID: 15050650 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2003.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2003] [Revised: 07/21/2003] [Accepted: 08/04/2003] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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To identify signaling pathways by which the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) might alter gene expression in the immune system, we assayed activation of the inflammatory transcription factor NF-kappaB in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 13 healthy young adults at rest and following 5 min of intense exercise. SNS activation was verified by changes in cardiovascular parameters and mobilization of NK cells into circulating blood. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) of nuclear protein extracts confirmed previous findings that SNS activation increased NF-kappaB DNA-binding activity in bulk PBMC. However, analyses of isolated leukocyte subsets failed to indicate any increase on a per-cell basis in NK cells (the major carriers of NF-kappaB activity in circulating PBMC), in the residual CD56- leukocyte pool, or in CD14+ monocytes. Regression analyses indicated a strong correlation between increasing NK cell prevalence and changes in NF-kappaB DNA-binding activity in bulk PBMC, and suggested that no change in EMSA activity would be observed in the absence of NK cell mobilization. Such results imply that SNS-induced mobilization of NK cells can rapidly (< 10 min) alter NF-kappaB DNA-binding activity in the circulating PBMC pool without generating any true change in NF-kappaB activity on a per-cell basis. Implications for future efforts to analyze stress effects on leukocyte gene expression are considered.
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- Vanessa A Richlin
- Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1678, USA
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Hébert G, Arsaut J, Dantzer R, Demotes-Mainard J. Time-course of the expression of inflammatory cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases in the striatum and mesencephalon of mice injected with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine, a dopaminergic neurotoxin. Neurosci Lett 2003; 349:191-5. [PMID: 12951201 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(03)00832-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Injection of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) in mice results in a retrograde nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway denervation and subsequent tissue reorganization. Since the role of inflammatory mediators after MPTP remains unclear, proinflammatory cytokine and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) expression were evaluated by comparative RT-PCR during denervation and tissue reorganization following a single-dose of MPTP (40 mg/kg, s.c.) in young (8-week-old) mice. The time-course of denervation/reorganization was assessed through [(3)H]GBR-12935 binding on dopamine transporter and tyrosine hydroxylase immunohistochemistry. In the striatum, TNF-alpha, IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, IL-6 and MMP-9 mRNA expression peaked on day 1. In the ventral mesencephalon, cytokines (TNF-alpha, IL-1alpha, IL-1beta) and MMP-9 mRNA expression peaked on day 3. During tissue reorganization (day 6 through 16), the only change observed in the striatum consisted of IL-1alpha mRNA and protein overexpression together with MMP-2 downregulation. Whereas the early expression of proinflammatory cytokines and MMP might participate in the retrograde nigrostriatal denervation, the late component of IL-1alpha expression suggests a possible role for this cytokine in the subsequent striatal reorganization.
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- Guillaume Hébert
- INSERM U-394 "Neurobiologie Intégrative", Institut François Magendie, Bordeaux, France.
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Harzsch S. Evolution of identified arthropod neurons: the serotonergic system in relation to engrailed-expressing cells in the embryonic ventral nerve cord of the american lobster homarus americanus milne edwards, 1873 (malacostraca, pleocyemata, homarida). Dev Biol 2003; 258:44-56. [PMID: 12781681 DOI: 10.1016/s0012-1606(03)00113-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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One of the long-standing questions in zoology is that on the phylogenetic relationships within the Arthropoda. Comparative studies on structure and development of the nervous system can contribute important arguments to this discussion. In the present report, the arrangement of serotonin- and engrailed-expressing cells was examined in the embryonic ventral nerve cord of the American lobster Homarus americanus Milne Edwards, 1873 (Malacostraca, Pleocyemata, Homarida), and the spatial relationship of these two cell classes was explored by a double-labelling approach. The goal of this study was to determine whether the lobster serotonergic neurons are homologous to similar cells present in representatives of the Hexapoda and other Arthropoda. The results indicate that, in fact, these neurons in the lobster ventral nerve cord have corresponding counterparts in many other mandibulate taxa. Based on the finding of these homologies, the arrangement of serotonergic neurons in a model trunk ganglion of the mandibulate ground pattern was reconstructed as comprising an anterior and a posterior pair of serotonergic neurons per hemiganglion, each cell with both an ipsilateral and a contralateral neurite. Starting from this ground pattern, the evolutionary diversification of this class of neurons within the Mandibulata is discussed.
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- Steffen Harzsch
- Universität Ulm, Sektion Biosystematische Dokumentation and Abteilung Neurobiologie, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
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Dong J, Mrabet O, Moze E, Li K, Neveu PJ. Lateralization and catecholaminergic neuroimmunomodulation: prazosin, an alpha1/alpha2-adrenergic receptor antagonist, suppresses interleukin-1 and increases interleukin-10 production induced by lipopolysaccharides. Neuroimmunomodulation 2003; 10:163-8. [PMID: 12481156 DOI: 10.1159/000067178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE The brain has previously been shown to asymmetrically modulate neurochemical, neuroendocrine and immune responses to lipopolysaccharides (LPS). As these responses are reversed by a chemical sympathectomy, it can be hypothesized that the asymmetry in the functioning of the sympathetic nervous system may be one of the mechanisms by which the brain hemispheres asymmetrically modulate immune reactivity. METHODS The effects of prazosin, an alpha1/alpha2-adrenergic receptor antagonist, on the production of interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL-10 induced by LPS was studied in mice selected for their paw preference. RESULTS Two hours after intraperitoneal injection of 5 microg of LPS, plasma levels of IL-1beta were higher in right-pawed mice as compared to left-pawed or ambidextrous animals. No lateralization effect was observed for LPS-induced plasma IL-10 levels. Prazosin, 10 mg/kg, injected intraperitoneally half an hour before LPS, reduced plasma levels of IL-1beta and abolished the effect of lateralization. By contrast, prazosin drastically increased plasma levels of IL-10 in response to LPS and the production of corticosterone in untreated controls. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the catecholaminergic modulation of immune reactivity depends on lateralization. This work further demonstrates that prazosin is endowed with anti-inflammatory properties that may be considered side effects of this drug, which is widely prescribed in the treatment of hypertension.
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- Jing Dong
- Neurobiologie Intégrative U394, Institut François Magendie, Bordeaux, France
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Numerous mechanisms contribute to neural damage following central nervous system (CNS) injury. Inflammatory response has emerged as an important interaction between the CNS and the immune system in spinal cord injury that can have beneficial as well as detrimental consequences. This relationship has important implications for the development of therapeutic interventions for injuries and diseases of the spinal cord. This article details the innate and adaptive arms of the immune response, including cell-mediated and humoral pathways, and describes their relevance to the processes of degeneration and regeneration.
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- Aileen J Anderson
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, University of California, Irvine 92697-4540, USA.
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The nervous system and the immune system share several functional molecules involved in various cell-cell interaction events. In this study, we used in situ hybridization to identify immune molecules that are expressed by a restricted population of neurons in the mouse brain and found that mRNA for the beta subunit of T-cell receptor (TCRbeta) was predominantly and strongly localized to neurons in deep layers of the cerebral neocortex and weakly expressed in the thalamus. Developmentally, TCRbeta mRNA expression started at embryonic day 15 in the thalamic nuclei and at postnatal day 1 in the cerebral neocortex. The level of TCRbeta mRNA in the neocortex subsequently increased until postnatal day 21, and it remained high in the adult. Detailed analysis revealed that only the Cbeta2 segment of TCRbeta, not the Cbeta1 or Vbeta segments, was expressed by the brain neurons. By the 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends method, we determined a brain-specific transcription start site in the Jbeta2 region locus, not in the Vbeta region locus. Furthermore, we confirmed that the aberrant transcription around the Jbeta2 region took place only in neurons and lymphocytes in transgenic mice. These results demonstrate that the transcriptional machinery for unrearranged TCRbeta expression is shared by the nervous and immune systems and raise a possibility of gene rearrangement in neurons under certain circumstances.
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MESH Headings
- Alternative Splicing/genetics
- Alternative Splicing/immunology
- Animals
- Base Sequence/genetics
- Brain/cytology
- Brain/immunology
- Brain/metabolism
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neocortex/cytology
- Neocortex/immunology
- Neocortex/metabolism
- Neural Pathways/cytology
- Neural Pathways/immunology
- Neural Pathways/metabolism
- Neuroimmunomodulation/genetics
- Neuroimmunomodulation/immunology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/immunology
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Thalamus/cytology
- Thalamus/immunology
- Thalamus/metabolism
- Transcription Initiation Site/physiology
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic/immunology
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- Atsushi Nishiyori
- Laboratory for Neurobiology of Synapse, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
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Ichikawa H, Sugimoto T. The difference of osteocalcin-immunoreactive neurons in the rat dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia: co-expression with nociceptive transducers and central projection. Brain Res 2002; 958:459-62. [PMID: 12470885 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(02)03701-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The co-expression of osteocalcin (OC) with the capsaicin receptor (VR1) and vanilloid receptor 1-like receptor (VRL-1) was examined in the dorsal root (DRG) and trigeminal ganglia (TG). Virtually all OC-immunoreactive (ir) DRG neurons were devoid of VR1- and VRL-1-immunoreactivity (ir). In the TG, 14.1% of OC-ir neurons were also immunoreactive for VR1. Only 1.7% of OC-ir TG neurons co-expressed VRL-1-ir. The distribution of OC-ir was also examined in the spinal cord and trigeminal sensory nuclei. In the spinal cord, the superficial laminae of the dorsal horn were devoid of OC-ir. The neuropil was weakly stained in other regions of the spinal horns. The medullary dorsal horn (MDH) contained numerous OC-ir varicose fibers in laminae I and II. These fibers were occasionally observed originating from the spinal trigeminal tract. The neuropil was weakly stained in deeper laminae of the MDH, and the rostral parts of the trigeminal sensory nuclei. The present study suggests that OC-ir TG nociceptors send their unmyelinated axons to the superficial laminae of the MDH.
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- Hiroyuki Ichikawa
- Department of Oral Function and Anatomy, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8525, Japan.
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Physical stressors such as infection, inflammation and tissue injury elicit activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. This response has significant implications for both immune and central nervous system function. Investigations in rats into the neural substrates responsible for HPA axis activation to an immune challenge have predominantly utilized an experimental paradigm involving the acute administration of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin- 1β (IL-1β). It is well recognized that medial parvocellular corticotrophin-releasing factor cells of the paraventricular nucleus (mPVN CRF) are critical in generating HPA axis responses to an immune challenge but little is known about how peripheral immune signals can activate and/or modulate the mPVN CRF cells. Studies that have examined the afferent control of the mPVN CRF cell response to systemic IL-1β have centred largely on the inputs from brainstem catecholamine cells. However, other regulatory neuronal populations also merit attention and one such region is a component of the limbic system, the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA). A large number of CeA cells are recruited following systemic IL-lβ administration and there is a significant body of work indicating that the CeA can influence HPA axis function. However, the contribution of the CeA to HPA axis responses to an immune challenge is only just beginning to be addressed. This review examines three aspects of HPA axis control by systemic IL-1β: (i) whether the CeA has a role in generating HPA axis responses to systemic IL-1β, (ii) the identity of the neural connections between the CeA and mPVN CRF cells that might be important to HPA axis responses and(iii) the mechanisms by which systemic IL-Iβ triggers the recruitment of CeA cells.
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- K M Buller
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
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Although anatomical and biochemical properties of the rat entopeduncular nucleus (EPN) closely resemble those of the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr), the present study shows that, unlike in the SNr, focal cerebral ischemia does not cause trans-synaptic degeneration of EPN neurons, despite striatal infarction and a similar delayed glial activation in both nuclei. In this study, interleukin-6 (IL-6) expression was found within EPN neurons 3 and 7 days after striatal ischemia. Since it has been reported that neuroprotective properties seem to predominate IL-6 function and that distinct SNr regions which demonstrate low trans-synaptic neuronal degeneration show high IL-6 expression and vice versa, IL-6 expression within partially deafferentiated but surviving EPN neurons could represent an intrinsic neuroprotective mechanism.
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- M Dihné
- Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstr.30, D-52057 Aachen, Germany
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Ge X, Yang Z, Duan L, Rao Z. Evidence for involvement of the neural pathway containing the peripheral vagus nerve, medullary visceral zone and central amygdaloid nucleus in neuroimmunomodulation. Brain Res 2001; 914:149-58. [PMID: 11578607 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02789-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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It is now evident that a bidirectional communication network exists between the central nervous system (CNS) and immune system (IS). However, the way in which the IS passes inform to the brain is not quite clear.In the present study, one of the neural pathways involved in the cytokine-to-brain communication was investigated in the rat. This pathway starts at the vagal nerve projecting to the medullary visceral zone (MVZ), an arc-shape band from the dorsomedial to ventrolateral area in the middle-caudal segment of the medulla oblongata, and terminates at the central amygdaloid nucleus (Ce) which receives projections from large catecholaminergic neurons in the MVZ. Animals were randomly divided into two experimental groups. Triple-labeling was used in Group I animals to combine wheat germ aggulutinin-conjugated horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) retrograde tracing with anti-Fos and anti-tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunostaining. WGA-RP was stereotaxically injected into the unilateral Ce of the animals and, after a survival period of 48 h, intraperitoneal (IP) injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was performed. Seven kinds of labeled neurons were observed in the MVZ, namely, HRP-, Fos- or TH-singly-labeled neurons; Fos/HRP-, Fos/TH- or HRP/TH-doubly-labeled neurons; and Fos/HRP/TH-triply-labeled neurons. As for Group II animals, bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (SDV) or sham operation was performed, followed 4 weeks later by IP injection of LPS. The number of Fos-positive neurons within the Ce and MVZ was significantly lower (P<0.01) in rats having SDV when compared with those receiving sham operation. Our results suggest that part of the peripheral immune information can be conveyed through the vagus to the catecholaminergic neurons in the MVZ, where it is transported to the Ce. The MVZ is a neural relay station in the immune-to-brain communication and might play a significant role in neuroimmuno-modulation via the vagus-MVZ-Ce pathway.
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- X Ge
- Institute of Neurosciences, The Fourth Military Medical University, 710032, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
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Tomizawa K, Katayama H, Nakayasu H. A novel monoclonal antibody recognizes a previously unknown subdivision of the habenulo-interpeduncular system in zebrafish. Brain Res 2001; 901:117-27. [PMID: 11368958 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02313-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The habenulo-interpeduncular system is an evolutionarily conserved structure found in the brain of almost all vertebrates. We prepared a monoclonal antibody (6G11) which very specifically recognizes only a part of this system. 6G11 is a monoclonal antibody prepared from a neuronal membrane protein in adult zebrafish brain. In western blot analysis of the adult zebrafish brain, the antibody recognized a 95 kDa protein, and the class of the antibody was determined to be IgM. The 6G11 antigen was not detected in zebrafish muscle, intestine, testis or ovary. A group of neurons stained by the 6G11 antibody was located in the caudomedial part of the zebrafish habenula. The 6G11-immunopositive neurons extended their axons into the fasciculus retroflexus (FR). One group of immunopositive neurons projected toward the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN), especially to the intermediate and the central subnucleus (type 1 neuron). The other group projected to the ventral midline at the level of the raphe nucleus; these axons passed ipsilaterally beside the IPN and converged in the ventral midline under the raphe nucleus (type 2 neuron). Both type 1 and type 2 fibers are relatively minor components of the FR. Little has previously been known about this topological pattern in any species. The 6G11 monoclonal antibody could be a useful tool for expanding knowledge of the habenulo-interpeduncular system.
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- K Tomizawa
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, 700-8530, Okayama, Japan
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The first studies carried out on the mechanisms by which peripheral immune stimuli signal the brain to induce fever, activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and sickness behavior emphasized the importance of fenestrated parts of the blood-brain barrier known as circumventricular organs for allowing blood-borne proinflammatory cytokines to act on brain functions. The discovery in the mid-1990s that subdiaphragmatic section of the vagus nerves attenuates the brain effects of systemic cytokines, together with the demonstration of an inducible brain cytokine compartment shifted the attention from circumventricular organs to neural pathways in the transmission of the immune message to the brain. Since then, neuroanatomical studies have confirmed the existence of a fast route of communication from the immune system to the brain via the vagus nerves. This neural pathway is complemented by a humoral pathway that involves cytokines produced at the level of the circumventricular organs and the choroid plexus and at the origin of a second wave of cytokines produced in the brain parenchyma. Depending on their source, these locally produced cytokines can either activate neurons that project to specific brain areas or diffuse by volume transmission into the brain parenchyma to reach their targets. Activation of neurons by cytokines can be direct or indirect, via prostaglandins. The way the neural pathway of transmission interacts with the humoral pathway remains to be elucidated.
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Mogi M, Togari A, Tanaka K, Ogawa N, Ichinose H, Nagatsu T. Increase in level of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned striatum in rats is suppressed by immunosuppressant FK506. Neurosci Lett 2000; 289:165-8. [PMID: 10961655 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(00)01275-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We compared in rats with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-induced hemiparkinsonism the content of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic region of the control side with that of the 6-OHDA-injected experimental side, and explored the effects of 6-OHDA injection combined with the immunosuppressant FK506 treatment (0.5 or 4 mg/kg per day for 2 weeks). The ratios of the concentration of TNF-alpha in the striatum and substantia nigra on the 6-OHDA injection side to that on the control side in the 6-OHDA hemiparkinsonism rats were significantly higher than those in the control rats without 6-OHDA treatment, whereas those in the rats treated with 6-OHDA and FK506 were not significantly different from those in the control rats. Thus FK506 attenuated increased TNF-alpha level in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic region injured by 6-OHDA treatment.
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- M Mogi
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Aichi-Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan
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Saldanha CJ, Tuerk MJ, Kim YH, Fernandes AO, Arnold AP, Schlinger BA. Distribution and regulation of telencephalic aromatase expression in the zebra finch revealed with a specific antibody. J Comp Neurol 2000; 423:619-30. [PMID: 10880992 DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20000807)423:4<619::aid-cne7>3.0.co;2-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 218] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In songbirds, aromatase (estrogen synthase) activity and mRNA are readily detectable in the brain. This neural aromatization presumably provides estrogen to steroid-sensitive targets via autocrine, paracrine, and synaptic mechanisms. The location of immunoreactive protein, however, has been difficult to describe completely, particularly in distal dendrites, axons, and terminals of the forebrain. Here we describe the neuroanatomical distribution of aromatase in the zebra finch by using a novel antibody raised specifically against zebra finch aromatase. The distribution of aromatase-positive somata in the zebra finch brain is in excellent agreement with previous reports. Additionally, this antibody reveals elaborate, spinous dendritic arbors, fine-beaded axons, and punctate terminals of telencephalic neurons that may synthesize estrogen. Some of these axon-like fibers extend into the high vocal center (HVC) and the robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA) in males and females, suggesting a role for presynaptic aromatization in cellular processes within these loci. Adult males have more aromatase-positive fibers in the caudomedial neostriatum (NCM) and the preoptic area (POA) compared to females, despite the lack of detectable sex differences in the number of immunoreactive somata at these loci. Thus, the compartmentalization of aromatase in dendrites and axons may serve a sexually dimorphic function in the songbird. Finally, in adult males, aromatase expression is down-regulated by circulating estradiol in the hippocampus, but not in the NCM or POA. The distribution of aromatase suggests a role for aromatization in the regulation of pre- and postsynaptic function in steroid sensitive areas of the songbird forebrain.
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- C J Saldanha
- Department Physiological Science, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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Ichiyama T, Sakai T, Catania A, Barsh GS, Furukawa S, Lipton JM. Inhibition of peripheral NF-kappaB activation by central action of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone. J Neuroimmunol 1999; 99:211-7. [PMID: 10505977 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(99)00122-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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With the rise in the field of neuroimmunomodulation research, there is increased recognition of the influence of the nervous system and neuropeptides in peripheral disease. The neuropeptide alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) is a neuroimmunomodulatory agent that modulates production of proinflammatory cytokines and inhibits peripheral inflammation via actions on CNS receptors. We examined whether central alpha-MSH operates by inhibiting activation of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) that is essential to the expression of proinflammatory cytokines and development of inflammation in the periphery. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays of nuclear extracts from the murine foot pad injected with TNF-alpha demonstrated that centrally administered alpha-MSH does inhibit NF-kappaB activation. Western blot analysis revealed that this inhibition was linked to central alpha-MSH-induced preservation of expression of IkappaBalpha protein in the peripheral tissue. The NF-kappaB and IkappaBalpha effects were inhibited in mice with spinal cord transection. Intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of the nonspecific beta-adrenergic receptor blocker propranolol, and of a specific beta2-adrenergic receptor antagonist, likewise prevented these effects of central alpha-MSH; blockade of cholinergic, alpha-adrenergic, or beta1-adrenergic receptors did not. Centrally administered alpha-MSH inhibited peripheral NF-kappaB activation and IkappaBalpha degradation even in mice with nonfunctional melanocortin 1 receptors (MC1R). These findings indicate that alpha-MSH can act centrally to inhibit NF-kappaB activation in peripheral acute inflammation via a descending neural pathway. The pathway involves beta2-adrenergic receptors, but does not require activation of MC1R within the brain.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists/pharmacology
- Adrenergic beta-Antagonists/pharmacology
- Animals
- Atenolol/pharmacology
- Atropine/pharmacology
- Blotting, Western
- Brain Chemistry/drug effects
- Brain Chemistry/immunology
- Butoxamine/pharmacology
- DNA-Binding Proteins/analysis
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Encephalitis/immunology
- I-kappa B Proteins
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Muscarinic Antagonists/pharmacology
- NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha
- NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors
- NF-kappa B/immunology
- Neural Pathways/immunology
- Phentolamine/pharmacology
- Propranolol/pharmacology
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1/immunology
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2/immunology
- Receptors, Corticotropin/genetics
- Receptors, Corticotropin/immunology
- Receptors, Melanocortin
- Spinal Cord/surgery
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology
- alpha-MSH/pharmacology
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Affiliation(s)
- T Ichiyama
- Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75235-9040, USA
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PURPOSE Substantia nigra (SN) and locus coeruleus (LC) neurons are implicated in the propagation and suppression of amygdaloid seizures. Both structures are activated concomitant with amygdaloid seizure discharges. Their mechanisms of activation, however, remain to be elucidated. SN firing is not associated with the induction of Fos immunoreactivity (ir), a marker of excitatory neuronal activation. LC has not been studied. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if amygdala-kindled generalized seizures could induce Fos-ir in the LC. METHODS Female Sprague-Dawley rats were killed after generalized seizures induced by amygdala electrical stimulation and stained by using Fos immunocytochemistry. The number of Fos-ir neurons was compared between 15 animals with generalized seizures and four implanted, unstimulated controls. RESULTS LC-ir neurons were significantly (p < 0.05) more prevalent after seizures than in control animals. Their numbers correlated very highly with Fos-ir in the central nucleus of the amygdala (p < 0.0001). No Fos induction was observed in LC in controls or in the SN in either group. CONCLUSIONS Amygdala-induced generalized seizures result in Fos-ir in the LC but not in the SN. This is consistent with different mechanisms of activation possibly involving disinhibition in the SN and direct excitation in the LC.
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- D C Silveira
- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Scott RB, Tan DT, Miampamba M, Sharkey KA. Anaphylaxis-induced alterations in intestinal motility: role of extrinsic neural pathways. Am J Physiol 1998; 275:G812-21. [PMID: 9756513 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1998.275.4.g812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The roles of mast cells and extrinsic and vagal neural pathways in the anaphylaxis-induced alterations in motility observed at sites remote from antigen exposure were explored. Rats were sensitized to egg albumin (EA) and prepared with 1) electrodes to monitor intestinal myoelectric activity, 2) an isolated intestinal loop, and 3) either intact vagal innervation or a subdiaphragmatic vagotomy. Fasting myoelectric activity was recorded before and after challenge of the jejunum in continuity or the isolated loop with EA or BSA. Intestinal segments and the brain stems were processed for mast cell identification (intestine) or Fos immunoreactivity (brain stem). EA but not BSA challenge of the jejunum or the isolated loop induced altered motility at both sites and diarrhea. Granulated mast cells were significantly reduced at the site local to but not remote from challenge. Vagotomy did not inhibit antigen-induced alterations in motility or diarrhea. The number of Fos-immunoreactive nuclei in vagal sensory or motor nuclei was not significantly altered by vagotomy. Thus antigen challenge of sensitized animals causes mast cell degranulation only at the site of direct challenge but alters motility at sites local and remote from challenge. The remote response requires intact extrinsic but not necessarily vagal neural pathways.
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- R B Scott
- Gastrointestinal and Neuroscience Research Groups, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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Dicke U, Wallstein M, Roth G. 5-HT-like immunoreactivity in the brains of plethodontid and salamandrid salamanders (Hydromantes italicus, Hydromantes genei, Plethodon jordani, Desmognathus ochrophaeus, Pleurodeles waltl): an immunohistochemical and biocytin double-labelling study. Cell Tissue Res 1997; 287:513-23. [PMID: 9023082 DOI: 10.1007/s004410050775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The distribution of 5-HT-like-immunoreactive cell bodies and fibres was studied in the brains of the salamanders Hydromantes italicus, H. genei, Plethodon jordani, Desmognathus ochrophaeus (family Plethodontidae), and Pleurodeles waltl (family Salamandridae). In addition, double-labelling experiments with biocytin were carried out to identify the relationship between serotonergic fibres and neurons involved in the processing of sensory and sensorimotor information. In all species, 5-HT-immunopositive somata are found in the ventral thalamus close to the ventricle forming the paraventricular organ. In the hypothalamus, cells are labelled in the ependymal layer around the infundibular recess and at the lateral edge of the periventricular grey. In the pretectum, a few immunoreactive cells are situated dorsolaterally in the grey matter. In the tegmentum and medulla oblongata, cells of the raphe nuclei are regularly distributed along the midline; labelled perikarya are occasionally found in the cervical spinal cord. 5-HT-like-immunoreactive fibres are widely distributed throughout the nervous system. Densely arborizing fibres are found in the olfactory bulb, striatum and amygdala. Distinct fibre projections extend in the ventral thalamus and tectum. Biocytin tracing of striatal and tectal projection neurons and ascending reticular neurons combined with the demonstration of 5-HT suggest that the striatum, the tectum and the ascending activating system are strongly influenced by 5-HT.
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- U Dicke
- Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, FB2, D-28334 Bremen, Germany
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