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Divergent splanchnic sympathetic efferent nerve pathways regulate interleukin-10 and tumour necrosis factor-α responses to endotoxaemia

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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 600, Issue 20, Pages 4521-4536

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/JP283217

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  1. National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1186384, 1098887]
  2. Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program

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This study investigated the splanchnic sympathetic nerves' role in enhancing interleukin-10 (IL-10) and suppressing tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) levels in the reflex response to systemic immune challenge. The findings demonstrated that the endogenous anti-inflammatory reflex is mediated by sympathetic efferent fibres running in the splanchnic nerves and controlled by divergent pathways for IL-10 and TNF responses, with neurally driven adrenaline regulating IL-10 and sympathetic nerves acting on abdominal organs restraining TNF.
The efferent branches of the splanchnic sympathetic nerves that enhance interleukin-10 (IL-10) and suppress tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) levels in the reflex response to systemic immune challenge were investigated in anaesthetized, ventilated rats. Plasma levels of TNF and IL-10 were measured 90 min after intravenous lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 60 mu g/kg). Splanchnic nerve section, ganglionic blockade with pentolinium tartrate or beta(2) adrenoreceptor antagonism with ICI 118551 all blocked IL-10 responses. Restoring plasma adrenaline after splanchnic denervation rescued IL-10 responses. TNF responses were disinhibited by splanchnic denervation or pentolinium treatment, but not by ICI 118551. Splanchnic nerve branches were cut individually or in combination in vagotomized rats, ruling out any vagal influence on results. Distal splanchnic denervation, sparing the adrenal nerves, disinhibited TNF but did not reduce IL-10 responses. Selective adrenal denervation depressed IL-10 but did not disinhibit TNF responses. Selective denervation of either spleen or liver did not affect IL-10 or TNF responses, but combined splenic and adrenal denervation did so. Finally, combined section of the cervical and lumbar sympathetic nerves did not affect cytokine responses to LPS. Together, these results show that the endogenous anti-inflammatory reflex is mediated by sympathetic efferent fibres that run in the splanchnic, but not other sympathetic nerves, nor the vagus. Within the splanchnic nerves, divergent pathways control these two cytokine responses: neurally driven adrenaline, acting via beta(2) adrenoreceptors, regulates IL-10, while TNF is restrained by sympathetic nerves to abdominal organs including the spleen, where non-beta(2) adrenoreceptor mechanisms are dominant.

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