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Tissue-specific increase in norepinephrine turnover by central interleukin-1, but not by interleukin-6, in rats

A. Terao, M. Oikawa and M. Saito
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

To examine the effects of brain cytokines on the sympathetic nervous system, norepinephrine (NE) turnover in peripheral organs (spleen, lung, diaphragm, pancreas, heart, liver, kidney, and interscapular brown adipose tissue) was assessed after intraperitoneal or intracerbroventricular administrations of human recombinant interleukin (IL)-1 beta and IL-6 in rats. An intraperitoneal injection of IL-1 (1 microgram/rat) accelerated NE turnover in the spleen, lung, diaphragm, and pancreas without appreciable effects in other organs examined. When IL-1 was injected intracerebroventricularly at much lower doses (1-100 ng/rat), a dose-dependent increase in NE turnover was observed in the spleen, lung, diaphragm, and pancreas. IL-6 did not affect NE turnover in every organ examined, even when it was given at much higher doses, 100 micrograms/rat and 100 ng/rat for intraperitoneal and intracerebroventricular injections, respectively. In contrast to tissue NE turnover, plasma corticosterone level was increased after the administration of IL-6 as well as IL-1, regardless of the site of administration. These results suggest that central IL-1, but not IL-6, increases sympathetic nerve activity in some specific organs, whereas both cytokines are effective for adrenocortical activation. A possible role of the sympathetic nervous system in physiological and immune responses to central IL-1 was discussed.

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