Journal
NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 141, Issue 2, Pages 745-755Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.04.007
Keywords
cytokine; neonatal; oligodendrocyte; astrocyte; microglia
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD 35496] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS 54278] Funding Source: Medline
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R29HD035496, R01HD035496] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R56NS054278, R01NS054278] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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There are increasing data in support of the hypothesis that inflammatory cytokines are involved in neonatal white matter damage. Despite extensive study of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1 beta, the role of interieukin-6 in the development of white matter damage is largely unknown. In the present study, the role(s) of interleukin-6 in mediating lipopolysaccharide-induced brain injury and behavioral changes was investigated by the intracerebral injection of lipopolysaccharide with interleukin-6 neutralizing antibody in the 5-day-old rat brain. Brain injury was examined in brain sections at postnatal day 8 and postnatal day 21. Behavioral tests including righting reflex, wire hanging maneuver, cliff avoidance, locomotor activity, gait analysis, responses in the elevated plusmaze and passive avoidance were performed from postnatal day 3 to postnatal day 21. Changes in astroglia, microglia and oligodendrocytes were studied using immunohistochemistry in the postnatal day 21 rat brain. Our results show that interleukin-6 antibody attenuated lipopolysaccharide-incluced brain lateral ventricle dilation and improved neurobehavioral performance. Interleukin-6 antibody also suppressed lipopolysaccharide-incluced astrogliosis and microglial activation, and increased the number of oligodendrocytes in white matter. However, no changes of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interieukin- were detected. In contrast, no histopathological changes and glial activation were observed in rats injected with only interleukin-6. The present study indicates that the contribution to brain injury by interleukin-6 depends on its interaction with other lipopolysaccharide-induced agents and not on interleukin-6 alone. (c) 2006 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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