Blockade of Kupffer cells prevents the febrile and preoptic prostaglandin E2 responses to intravenous lipopolysaccharide in guinea pigs.
Blockade of Kupffer cells prevents the febrile and preoptic prostaglandin E2 responses to intravenous lipopolysaccharide in guinea pigs.
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库普弗细胞的阻断可防止豚鼠的发热和视前前列腺素 E2 对静脉内脂多糖的反应。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51732.x
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Blatteis,CM
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作者:
Sehic,E;Hunter,WS;Ungar,AL;Blatteis,CM
It is generally believed that fever is mediated by endogenous pyrogens (cytokines; eg, interleukin-lp [IL-lp]) induced peripherally by exogenous pyrogen (eg, bacterial endotoxic lipopolysaccharide [LPSI)-activated immune cells, released into the bloodstream, and transported to the brain. Indeed, abundant evidence indicates that circulating LPS is cleared by various resident macrophages, particularly those in the liver (Kupffer cells), and that these cells produce cytokines. There is no direct evidence to date, however, that the contribution of Kupffer cells is critical to fever production. Because the presence of a blood-brain barrier (BBB) a priori precludes the free passage of cytokines into the brain, it has been hypothesized that they may reach the perivascular spaces of, in particular, the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT), where the BBB is leaky, and bind to receptors distributed therein, thereby inducing new signals that transmit the original pyrogenic message further into the neuropile. However, it has also been speculated that, alternatively, circulating LPS may itself bind to macrophages in these spaces, thereby initiating the local production of cytokines which then could mediate the pyrogenic signal further into the brain. Indeed, macrophages and ramified microglia1* 2 in the OVLT region have been shown to express dosedependently IL-1/3 mRNA after the intravenous (iv) injection of LPS; however, the appearance of this message lags significantly behind the onset of fever. To ascertain whether systemic LPS activates macrophages preponderantly in the OVLT or in the liver to initiate the febrile response, we conducted two experiments. 1) On the assumption that LPS would bind to cells in either or both of these structures and that, therefore, its site of action might be differentiated, we injected fluorescein isothiocyanate (F1TC)-labeled E. coli LPS (Sigma Chemical, St. Louis, MO; 2.5 mg/kg) into the carotid artery of 6 rats, and 15 min later a Supported, in part, by NIH Grants NS 22716 and NS34857. Corresponding author. Tel.:(901) 448-5845; Fax:(901) 448-7126; E-mail: bIatteis@ physiol. utmem. edu.