Journal article
Comparison of acute phase responses induced in rabbits by lipopolysaccharide and double-stranded RNA
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, Vol.267(6), pp.R1596-R1605
12/01/1994
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/114356
PMID: 7810770
Abstract
Infection of injury results in several systemic and central reactions termed the acute phase response (APR). Substantial evidence suggests that cytokines induced by microbes initiate the APR. We compared the APR induced in rabbits by a model bacterial stimulus, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), to that induced by a model viral stimulus, polyriboinosinic:polyribocytidylic acid (poly I:C). The cytokine mRNA responses in a mouse macrophage cell line (RAW 264.7) to LPS or poly I:C were also determined. Rabbits were injected intravenously or intracerebroventricularly with different doses of LPS or poly I:C. Colonic temperatures (Tco) and blood samples were taken at the time of injection and at 3, 6, and 24 h after injection. Leukocyte numbers, serum antiviral activity, serum ceruloplasmin, and plasma fibrinogen were analyzed. Both intravenously injected LPS and poly I:C increased Tco, decreased leukocytes, and increased ceruloplasmin. Only LPS by the intravenous route increased fibrinogen, whereas only intravenously injected poly I:C induced antiviral activity. Intracerebroventricular injections of LPS and poly I:C also elicited dose-dependent febrile responses but did not change the hematologic APR significantly except for fibrinogen. The primary distinctions between LPS and poly I:C with respect to cytokine induction in the RAW 264.7 macrophage cell line were that LPS failed to induce interferon (IFN)-alpha, poly I:C induced interleukin (IL)-6 mRNA minimally and for a shorter time period than did LPS, and LPS induced IL-1 alpha and IFN-beta more rapidly than did poly I:C.
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- Title
- Comparison of acute phase responses induced in rabbits by lipopolysaccharide and double-stranded RNA
- Creators
- M Kimura - Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis38163L. A Toth - Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis38163H Agostini - Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis38163A. B Cady - Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis38163J. A Majde - Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis38163J. M Krueger - Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis38163
- Publication Details
- American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, Vol.267(6), pp.R1596-R1605
- Academic Unit
- Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900547793701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article