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BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 218-231Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.05.018
Keywords
Anxiety; Interleukin-1; Caspase-1; Adenosine receptor
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- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA/ILLU)
- National Institutes of Health [DK064862, NS058525, AA019357, MH083767, DK59802]
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Anxiety is one of the most commonly reported psychiatric conditions, but its pathogenesis is poorly understood. Ailments associated with activation of the innate immune system, however, are increasingly linked to anxiety disorders. In adult male mice, we found that adenosine doubled caspase-1 activity in brain by a pathway reliant on ATP-sensitive potassium (K-ATP) channels, protein kinase A (PKA) and the A2A adenosine receptor (AR). In addition, adenosine-dependent activation of caspase-1 increased interleukin (IL)-1 beta in the brain by 2-fold. Peripheral administration of adenosine in wild-type (WT) mice led to a 2.3-fold increase in caspase-1 activity in the amygdala and to a 33% and 42% reduction in spontaneous locomotor activity and food intake, respectively, that were not observed in caspase-1 knockout (1(0), IL-1 receptor type 1 (IL-1R1) MO and A2A AR MO mice or in mice administered a caspase-1 inhibitor centrally. Finally, adenosine administration increased anxiety-like behaviors in WT mice by 28% in the open field test and by 55% in the elevated zero-maze. Caspase-1 MO mice, IL-1R1 KO mice, A2A AR MO mice and WT mice treated with the K-ATP channel blocker, glyburide, were resistant to adenosine-induced anxiety-like behaviors. Thus, our results indicate that adenosine can act as an anxiogenic by activating caspase-1 and increasing IL-1 beta in the brain. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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