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An IL-1 receptor and an IL-1 receptor antagonist attenuate muramyl dipeptide- and IL-1-induced sleep and fever

L. Imeri, M. R. Opp and J. M. Krueger
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.

It is hypothesized that the somnogenic and pyrogenic effects of muramyl dipeptide (MDP) are mediated via enhanced interleukin-1 (IL-1) production. To test this hypothesis the effects of intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of a recombinant human soluble type I IL-1 receptor (sIL-1r) and of the IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) on MDP-induced sleep and fever were evaluated in rabbits. The sIL-1r recognized rabbit IL-1 beta, but it did not affect sleep or brain temperature across the dose range tested (1-50 micrograms) when injected icv into normal rabbits. Pretreatment of rabbits with 50 micrograms sIL-1r or 10 micrograms IL-1ra blocked human recombinant IL-1-enhanced nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and fever. Thus both the sIL-1r and the IL-1ra were effective antagonists of IL-1 actions. When the animals were pretreated with either 50 micrograms sIL-1r or with 10 or 100 micrograms of the IL-1ra, the somnogenic effects of 150 pmol MDP were attenuated. However, the sIL-1r had little effect on MDP-induced febrile responses. These results suggest that the sIL-1r and the IL-1ra can function as antagonists of IL-1 actions in vivo and that MDP-induced sleep and fever are partially mediated by IL-1.

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