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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue 8, Pages 4991-4997Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.8.4991
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DDK064862] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH071349] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS046227] Funding Source: Medline
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Chronic inflammation appears to play a critical role in type 2 diabetes and its complications. Here we tested the hypothesis that this inflammatory dysregulation affects the IL-1 beta system and has functional consequences in the brain. Diabetic, db/db, and nondiabetic, db/+, mice were administered i.p. LPS, a potent cytokine inducer, at a dose of 100 mu g/kg/mouse. db/db mouse innate immune-associated sickness behavior was 14.8, 33, 44.7, and 34 % greater than that of db/+ mice at 2, 4, 8, and 12 h, respectively. When a fixed dose of LPS was used (5 mu g/mouse), db/db mouse sickness was again enhanced 18.4, 22.2, and 14.5 % at 4, 8, and 12 h as compared with db/+ mice. In diabetic mice, peritoneal macrophages produced more IL-1 beta in response to LPS, and peritoneal levels of IL-1 beta induced by LPS were increased. Importantly, IL-1R antagonist and type 2 IL-1 receptor (IL-1R2) failed to up-regulate in response to LPS in db/db mice. Finally, both peripheral and central administration of IL-1 beta, itself, induced sickness in db/db mice that mimicked the effects of peripheral LPS and was significantly greater than that seen in db/+ mice. Taken together, these results indicate that IL-1 beta-mediated innate immunity is augmented in db/db mice both at the periphery and in the brain, and the mechanism is due to diabetes-associated loss of IL-1 beta counterregulation.
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