AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 2 442-R452, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Comparison between effects of interleukin-1 alpha administration and sublethal endotoxemia in primates

E. Fischer, M. A. Marano, A. E. Barber, A. Hudson, K. Lee, C. S. Rock, A. S. Hawes, R. C. Thompson, T. J. Hayes, T. D. Anderson and al. et
Department of Surgery, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021.

Interleukin (IL)-1 is an early mediator of host response to inflammation, although its contribution to individual components of the acute phase reaction is still unclear. To evaluate how the hemodynamic, metabolic, and hormonal responses to sublethal endotoxemia compare with IL-1 administration, baboons received intravenously either lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or 0.1, 10, or 100 micrograms/kg IL-1 alpha. LPS induced an early tachycardia and a fall in mean arterial pressure, as well as lacticacidemia and hypoaminoacidemia. Similar hemodynamic and metabolic changes were seen with 10 or 100 micrograms/kg of IL-1 alpha. An increase in adrenocorticotropic hormone and fall in serum iron were induced by IL-1 alpha but not by LPS. Plasma tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) was not measurable after IL-1 alpha administration, whereas LPS induced a monophasic TNF-alpha response. IL-6 levels were significantly greater after LPS than IL-1 alpha administration. Histopathological lesions, similar in LPS- and 100 micrograms/kg IL-1 alpha-treated groups, were present only in the adrenal cortex. We conclude that many, but not all, of the effects of sublethal endotoxemia can be replicated by IL-1 alpha administration, and these responses are dose dependent.

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