期刊
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
卷 18, 期 9, 页码 1006-1017出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.131
关键词
cytokine; depression; hippocampus; HPA axis; hypothalamus; thermoregulation
资金
- NIH (National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH))
- NIH (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA))
- Henry M Jackson Foundation (Bethesda, MD, USA)
- Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA)
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM [ZIAAA000375] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Endogenous glucocorticoids are essential for mobilizing energy resources, restraining inflammatory responses and coordinating behavior to an immune challenge. Impaired glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function has been associated with impaired metabolic processes, enhanced inflammation and exaggerated sickness and depressive-like behaviors. To discern the molecular mechanisms underlying GR regulation of physiologic and behavioral responses to a systemic immune challenge, GR(dim) mice, in which absent GR dimerization leads to impaired GR-DNA-binding-dependent mechanisms but intact GR protein-protein interactions, were administered low-dose lipopolysaccharide (LPS). GR(dim)-LPS mice exhibited elevated and prolonged levels of plasma corticosterone (CORT), interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-10 (but not plasma tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF alpha)), enhanced early expression of brain TNF alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-6 mRNA levels, and impaired later central TNFa mRNA expression. Exaggerated sickness behavior (lethargy, piloerection, ptosis) in the GR(dim)-LPS mice was associated with increased early brain proinflammatory cytokine expression and late plasma CORT levels, but decreased late brain TNF alpha expression. GR(dim)-LPS mice also exhibited sustained locomotor impairment in the open field, body weight loss and metabolic alterations measured by indirect calorimetry, as well as impaired thermoregulation. Taken together, these data indicate that GR dimerization-dependent DNA-binding mechanisms differentially regulate systemic and central cytokine expression in a cytokine-and time-specific manner, and are essential for the proper regulation and recovery of multiple physiologic responses to low-dose endotoxin. Moreover, these results support the concept that GR protein-protein interactions are not sufficient for glucocorticoids to exert their full anti-inflammatory effects and suggest that glucocorticoid responses limited to GR monomer-mediated transcriptional effects could predispose individuals to prolonged behavioral and metabolic sequelae of an enhanced inflammatory state.
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