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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 1998, 18(6):2239-2246
Exposure to Acute Stress Induces Brain
Interleukin-1 Protein in the Rat
Kien T.
Nguyen1,
Terrence
Deak1,
Stephanie
M.
Owens1,
Tadahiko
Kohno3,
Monika
Fleshner2,
Linda R.
Watkins1, and
Steven F.
Maier1
Departments of 1 Psychology and
2 Kinesiology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder,
Colorado 80309, and 3 Amgen-Boulder Inc., Boulder,
Colorado 80301
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ABSTRACT |
Peripheral immune stimulation such as that provided by
lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has been reported to increase brain levels of
IL-1 mRNA, immunoreactivity, and bioactivity. Stressors produce many
of the same neural and endocrine responses as those that follow LPS,
but the impact of stressors on brain interleukin-1 (IL-1) has not
been systematically explored. An ELISA designed to detect IL-1 was
used to measure levels of IL-1 protein in rat brain. Brain IL-1
was explored after exposure to inescapable shock (IS; 100 1.6 mA tail
shocks for 5 sec each) and LPS (1 mg/kg) as a positive control. Rats
were killed either immediately or 2, 7, 24, or 48 hr after IS. Brains
were dissected into hypothalamus, hippocampus, cerebellum, posterior
cortex, and nucleus tractus solitarius regions. LPS produced widespread
increases in brain IL-1, but IS did not. Adrenal glucocorticoids are
known to suppress IL-1 production in both the periphery and brain.
Thus, it was possible that the stressor did provide stimulus input to
the brain IL-1 system(s), but that the production of IL-1 protein
was suppressed by the rapid and prolonged high levels of
glucocorticoids produced by IS. To test this possibility rats were
adrenalectomized or given sham surgery, with half of the
adrenalectomized rats receiving corticosterone replacement to maintain
basal corticosterone levels. IS produced large increases in brain
IL-1 protein in the adrenalectomized subjects 2 hr after stress,
whether basal corticosterone levels had been maintained. Thus
elimination of the stress-induced rise in corticosterone unmasked a
robust and widespread increase in brain IL-1.
Key words:
interleukin-1; stress; brain; glucocorticoids; protein; rat
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INTRODUCTION |
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a cytokine
produced by a number of peripheral cell types and plays a variety of
roles in immune and inflammatory responses (for review, see Fantuzzi
and Dinarello, 1996 ; O'Neill, 1997). IL-1 and , the IL-1
prohormone, IL-1-converting enzyme, the endogenous IL-1 receptor
antagonist, and receptors for IL-1 have all been localized in the brain
under varying circumstances (Cunningham and De Souza, 1993; Weiss et
al., 1994). IL-1 has consistently been detected in CNS after injury
to the brain or peripheral immune activation. For example, IL-1
bioactivity (Fontana et al., 1984; Coceani et al., 1988; Quan et al.,
1994), immunoreactivity (Van Dam et al., 1992; Hagan et al., 1993;
Hillhouse and Mosley, 1993), and mRNA (Ban et al., 1992; Laye et al.,
1994; Buttini and Boddeke, 1995) have all been found to be present in
brain after peripheral administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
However, detection of IL-1 in brain under basal or nonpathological
conditions has been inconsistent. IL-1 bioactivity has sometimes been
reported to be present (Nieto-Sampedro and Berman, 1987; Coceani et
al., 1988; Quan et al., 1996) and sometimes not to be present (Fontana et al., 1984). Similarly, mRNA for IL-1 has been both detected (Bandtlow et al., 1990; Taishi et al., 1997) and not detected (Higgins
and Olschowka, 1991; Gatti and Bartfai, 1993). IL-1 immunoreactivity has also been variable (Hagan et al., 1993; Hillhouse and Mosley, 1993).
Despite these inconsistencies, intracerebroventricular administration
of IL-1 and the receptor antagonist to IL-1 (IL-1ra) have had quite
clear and reliable effects. Central administration of IL-1 produces
fever (Kluger, 1991), slow-wave sleep (Kreuger et al., 1984),
hyperalgesia (Oka et al., 1993), reduced food and water intake
(Plata-Salaman et al., 1988; Kent et al., 1994), reduced social
interaction (Bluthe et al., 1996), increased plasma ACTH and
glucocorticoids (Weiss et al., 1991), and alterations in peripheral
immune parameters (Sundar et al., 1990; Brown et al., 1991).
Correspondingly, intracerebroventricular IL-1ra has been reported to
blunt or block several behavioral effects of peripheral immune
stimulation (Kent et al., 1996). Although these effects of centrally
administered IL-1 are robust, it has been unclear whether IL-1 plays a
physiological role in the uninjured brain. However, recent data suggest
that brain IL-1 is important in the regulation of sleep (Opp et al.,
1991; Opp and Krueger, 1994).
Brain IL-1 may also play a role in mediating the neurochemical and
behavioral consequences of stressors. The similarity of the
neurochemical and behavioral sequelae of exposure to stressors and
infectious agents has often been noted (Dunn, 1993; Zalcman et al.,
1994), and brain IL-1 may be an important feature of this overlap.
Indeed, central administration of IL-1 produces endocrine, neurochemical, and behavioral changes that are similar to those produced by stressors (Shintani et al., 1995a). Moreover, central injection of IL-1ra has been reported to block the brain monoamine and
pituitary-adrenal response to immobilization (Shintani et al., 1995b)
and the potentiation of fear conditioning and escape learning failure
that follows exposure to inescapable tail shock (Maier and Watkins,
1995).
There has been little work directed at determining whether stressors
actually alter brain IL-1. Immobilization has been reported to increase
IL-1 mRNA (Minami et al., 1991) and bioactivity (Shintani et al.,
1995b). However, the generality of these results is unknown, and
factors that might determine these brain IL-1 changes have not been
studied systematically. Here, we sought to determine whether a
different stressor, inescapable tail shock, would increase brain
protein levels of IL-1.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Subjects. Adult male pathogen-free Harlan Sprague
Dawley (Indianapolis, IN) rats (300-350 gm) were individually housed
in hanging metal cages at 25°C with a 12 hr light/dark cycle (lights on at 7:00 A.M.). Subjects were acclimated to the colony
for 14 d before experimentation began. Standard rat chow and water
were freely available. Care and use of the animals were in accordance with protocols approved by the University of Colorado Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
Inescapable tail shock treatment. All rats were handled and
weighed 2 d before each study began. Animals either remained
undisturbed in their home cages as controls (HCC) or were exposed to
inescapable tail shock (IS). The stress protocol involved placing the
rats in a Plexiglas restraining tube (23.4 cm long and 7 cm in
diameter) and exposing them to 100 1.6 mA inescapable shocks for 5 sec
each, with an average intertrial interval of 60 sec. The shocks were applied through electrodes taped to the tail. The animals were stressed
between 8:00 and 10:00 A.M. and, after stressor
termination, were returned to their home cages. Cages of stressed rats
were placed on the opposite side of the room (14 × 12 ft) from
the HCC animals.
Adrenalectomy. Bilateral adrenalectomies (ADX) were
aseptically performed under halothane anesthesia (Halocarbon
Laboratories, River Edge, NJ). All removed tissue was examined
immediately to ensure complete removal of the adrenal gland.
Sham-operated animals received the identical procedure, except that the
adrenal glands were gently manipulated with forceps but not removed.
Steroid replacement began for ADX animals immediately after surgery.
ADX animals received corticosterone (CORT) replacement in their
drinking water, because this method has been shown to mimic the normal circadian pattern of CORT secretion (Jacobson et al., 1988).
Corticosterone (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) was initially dissolved in ethyl
alcohol (ETOH) and diluted to a final concentration of 25 µg/ml in
0.2% ETOH. CORT-water also contained 0.5% saline. Sham animals
received drinking water containing 0.2% ETOH. Animals were allowed 6 weeks to recover before any experiments were performed.
LPS treatment. LPS (Escherichia coli, 0111:B4;
Sigma) was injected intraperitoneally at doses ranging from 1 µg/kg
to 1 mg/kg dissolved in sterile, endotoxin-free 0.9% saline vehicle.
Control injections were equivolume (1 ml/kg) vehicle, with all
injections given between 7:30 and 8:00 A.M. Animals were
returned to their home cage and killed 6-7 hr later. These time
intervals were chosen because increases in both mRNA and bioactivity
for IL-1 have been reported 2-6 hr after LPS (Fontana et al., 1984;
Buttini and Boddeke, 1995; Goujon et al., 1995).
Perfusion. To verify whether the IL-1 measured was from
blood or tissue in the CNS, animals were perfused with 0.9% saline before they were killed. In the same experiment, perfused rats were
compared with nonperfused rats, and levels of IL-1 protein were
measured in the hippocampus, hypothalamus, and posterior cortex.
Tissue collection. Animals were anesthetized with a brief
exposure to ether, and brains were quickly removed after decapitation. All dissections were performed on a frosted glass plate placed on top
of crushed ice, and brain structures were quickly frozen on dry ice.
Brain samples, which included hypothalamus, hippocampus, cerebellum,
posterior cortex, and nucleus tractus solitarius, were stored at
 70°C until the time of sonication.
Tissue processing. Each tissue was added to 0.5-1.0 ml of
Iscove's culture medium containing 5% fetal calf serum and a cocktail enzyme inhibitor (in mM: 100 amino-n-caproic
acid, 10 EDTA, 5 benzamidine-HCl, and 0.2 phenylmethylsulfonyl
fluoride). Total protein was mechanically dissociated from tissue using
an ultrasonic cell disruptor (Heat Systems, Inc., Farmingdale, NY).
Sonication consisted of 10 sec of cell disruption at the setting 10. Sonicated samples were centrifuged at 10,000 rpm at 4°C for 10 min.
Supernatants were removed and stored at 4°C until an ELISA was
performed. Bradford protein assays were also performed to determine
total protein concentrations in brain sonication samples.
ELISA. Sheep anti-rat IL-1 immunoaffinity-purified
polyclonal antibody (Ab) was provided by Dr. Steven Poole (National
Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire,
England). The microtiter plates (96 flat-bottom wells, Immunoplate
Maxisorp; Nunc, Roskilde, Denmark) were coated with this Ab overnight
at 4°C. After washing the plates in assay buffer (0.01 M
phosphate, 0.05 M NaCl, and 0.1% Tween 20, pH 7.2), 100 µl of rat IL-1 standards or samples was added to each well and
incubated at room temperature for 4 hr. After washing the plates, 100 µl of biotinylated, immunoaffinity-purified polyclonal sheep anti-rat
IL-1 Ab (1:2000) with 1% normal goat serum was added to each well
and incubated at room temperature for 1 hr. The color was developed by
use of avidin-HRP (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) and the
chromogen orthophenylene diamine (Sigma). Plates were read at 490 nm,
and results are expressed as picograms of IL-1/100 µg of total
protein. The detection limit of this assay was ~10 pg/ml. A
commercially available rat IL-1 ELISA kit (R & D Systems,
Minneapolis, MN) was also used to verify that similar results can be
obtained using a different Ab to rat IL-1. This ELISA kit uses a
goat anti-rat IL-1 polyclonal Ab that can recognize both recombinant
as well as natural rat IL-1. No significant cross-reactivity was
observed with the R & D Ab to recombinant human (r-human) IL-1RI,
IL-1RII, and IL-1ra, r-rat IL-1, IL-2, and IL-4, interferon- ,
tumor necrosis factor-, and r-mouse IL-1 and IL-1ra. This R & D
kit had a detection limit of ~5 pg/ml.
Verification of rat IL-1 Ab specificity. The rat IL-1
Ab was tested for specificity to rat IL-1 by ECL Western blot
analysis, ELISA on Sephadex column separation of brain sonicates, and
immunoprecipitation. Western blot analysis consisted of loading ~150
µg of total protein onto a 16% Tris-glycine polyacrylamide gel
(Novex, San Diego, CA) and running for 90 min at 120 V. The proteins
were then transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane at 25 V for 90 min
and blocked in 5% nonfat milk for 1 hr. The nitrocellulose blot was
incubated in the sheep anti-rat IL-1 immunoaffinity-purified
polyclonal Ab overnight at 4°C. After washing in Tris-buffered
saline, the secondary Ab (rabbit anti-sheep IgG conjugated with HRP;
Jackson ImmunoResearch, West Grove, PA) was added and incubated at room temperature for 1 hr. Enhanced chemiluminescence reagents (Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England) were added, and the nitrocellulose blot was
exposed to x-ray film. Dark bands were detected on the film, showing
where the secondary Ab was bound to the sheep anti-rat IL-1 Ab. A
molecular weight standard ladder (Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD)
ranging from 43 to 3 kDa was also used to verify the molecular weights
of the protein bands that were detected by the rat IL-1 Ab. A
detectable band occurred at ~17 kDa, the approximate molecular weight
of IL-1. However, a second band was also present at 33 kDa, the
approximate molecular weight of the IL-1 prohormone.
Total protein from the brain sonication supernatant was also separated
according to the molecular weight of each protein on a Sephadex G-50
column. Sephadex G-50 was packed into a 10 ml serological pipette
column and was equlibrated with 50 mM Tris-HCl and 100 mM potassium chloride, pH 7.5. Five hundred microliters of
supernatant were loaded onto the column, and fractions were collected
every 30 sec at a flow rate of 1 ml/min. Fractions were tested for
IL-1 using the ELISA. Columns were calibrated using a calibration
kit (Sigma) consisting of known protein standards ranging from 6.5 to
2000 kDa. ELISA detected IL-1 in the fifth and sixth fractions,
which consisted of proteins in the range of 15-30 kDa.
The rat IL-1 Ab was also tested for its ability to recognize pure
rat IL-1 by immunoprecipitation. Pure rat IL-1 (Biosource, Camarillo, CA) dissolved in 10% fetal calf serum (Life Technologies) at concentrations of 1 µg-10 pg was incubated with the rat IL-1 Ab overnight at 4°C. Protein G-Sepharose was added to the mixture and allowed to incubate at room temperature for 2 hr. Protein G-Sepharose bound to the IL-1-Ab complex was precipitated and washed
three times in 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5. After heat
denaturation at 80°C for 5 min, the IL-1-Ab protein complex was
loaded onto a 16% SDS-PAGE gel for electrophoresis separation. The gel
was silver-stained, and protein bands were visualized on the gel. The
rat IL-1 Ab did precipitate pure rat IL-1. The sensitivity of the
immunoprecipitation was at 10 ng of IL-1, according to the
silver-stained proteins located at ~17 kDa, and was located at the
same point on the gel as the pure IL-1 control.
Verification of adrenalectomy. Whole trunk blood was
collected by decapitation after a brief exposure to ether when rats
were killed. Whole blood was allowed to clot overnight at 4°C, and serum was separated by centrifugation and frozen at 20°C until later analysis. Serum levels of corticosterone were measured using a
modification of a radioimmunoassay procedure described by Keith et al.
(1978) (intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation < 10%).
Corticosterone Ab was purchased from Sigma (catalog #C-8784). The limit
of detection for this assay is 0.5 µg/ml.
Verification of corticosterone replacement. Thymus glands
were removed when rats were killed to verify the corticosterone replacement in the drinking water. Thymus weights were divided by the
total weights of their respective rat to determine the change in thymic
hypertrophy resulting from adrenalectomy without CORT replacement.
Statistical analysis. A 2 × 2 × 3 ANOVA was
performed on the IL-1 data from the perfusion study comparing saline
versus LPS; 2 × 5 ANOVAs were performed on the IL-1 time course
study; single-factor ANOVA was performed on the circadian, LPS
dose-response, thymus, and corticosterone data; and 2 × 3 ANOVAs
were performed on all IL-1 data in adrenalectomy studies.
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RESULTS |
Effects of LPS on brain IL-1 protein
The first series of studies determined the ability of the ELISA to
detect increases in brain IL-1 after peripheral LPS administration. Figure 1 shows IL-1 protein in the
posterior cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus from animals that were
and were not perfused. Samples were collected 7 hr after 1 mg/kg LPS or
vehicle. The Ab obtained from Dr. S. Poole was used in the assay.
Clearly, LPS produced a large increase in IL-1 protein levels in
each of the regions [F(1,18) = 35.02;
p < 0.001]. The contribution of blood levels of
IL-1 protein was also examined. There were no significant
differences between subjects that were perfused with physiological
saline at 7 hr after saline or 1 mg/kg LPS compared with their
nonperfused controls [F(1,18) = 0.159;
p > 0.05]. Perfusing with physiological saline did
not appear to alter the levels of IL-1 in the tissues of either
saline controls or LPS-stimulated rats, because there were no reliable
interactions between treatment and procedure
[F(1,18) = 0.0454; p > 0.05].
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Figure 1.
Effects of LPS (1 mg/kg) and perfusion on levels
of IL-1 protein in the posterior cortex, hippocampus, and
hypothalamus as measured by ELISA using the anti-rat IL-1 Ab from
Dr. S. Poole. Eleven rats received an intraperitoneal injection of
sterile 0.9% saline as controls, whereas another 11 rats received an
intraperitoneal injection of LPS. From these groups, six of the animals
were perfused with 0.9% saline before tissue collection. All animals
were killed at 7 hr after injections. Saline nonperfused,
n = 5; saline perfused, n = 6;
LPS nonperfused, n = 5; LPS perfused,
n = 6.
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One milligram per kg is a very high dose of LPS. Figure
2 shows IL-1 protein levels 6 hr after
either 0, 1, 10, or 100 µg/kg LPS. Samples here were assayed with the
R & D ELISA kit, and only hippocampus was examined to moderate cost.
LPS produced a dose-dependent increase in IL-1
[F(3,15) = 73.128; p < 0.0001].
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Figure 2.
Effects of LPS on levels of IL-1 protein in the
hippocampus as measured by the R & D ELISA kit. Rats were killed at 6 hr after intraperitoneal injections of either 0.9% saline or LPS. Saline, n = 4; LPS, 1 µg/kg,
n = 4; LPS, 10 µg/kg, n = 4;
LPS, 100 µg/kg, n = 4.
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Effects of inescapable tail shock on brain IL-1 protein
Rats were exposed to IS and killed either immediately
(n = 6) or 2 hr (n = 6), 7 hr
(n = 6), 24 hr (n = 6), or 48 hr
(n = 6) later. The immediate and 24 and 48 hr subjects
were all killed at 10:00 A.M. because the stress session
was held constant at 8:00-10:00 A.M. Thus, these groups
required only a single home cage control group (HCC) killed at 10:00
A.M. Separate controls were also killed at 12:00 and 5:00
P.M. to match the times for the 2 and 7 hr IS groups. Only
hypothalamus (Fig. 3A) and
hippocampus (Fig. 3B) were examined. As can be seen, IS did
not alter levels of IL-1 protein in either region
[F(1,10) = 0.755; p > 0.05 for the hypothalamus; F(1,9) = 1.762;
p > 0.05 for the hippocampus].
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Figure 3.
A, B, Levels of IL-1 protein in
the hypothalamus (A) and hippocampus
(B) as measured by ELISA using the anti-rat
IL-1 polyclonal Ab from Dr. S. Poole. The immediate and 24 and 48 hr
groups were killed at 10:00 A.M. The 2 and 7 hr groups were
killed at 12:00 and 5:00 P.M., respectively. All groups
contained six animals except the immediate and 24 and 48 hr HCC, which
shared of the same six animals, because all were killed at the same
time of the day. C, Circadian variation of rat IL-1
protein in the hippocampus. These data were taken from B
to clarify the potential circadian rhythmicity in HCC animals as
measured throughout the sleep period. Each time point contained six
animals.
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Interestingly, IL-1 protein levels varied with time of day
[F(4,40) = 4.45; p < 0.005 for
the hypothalamus; F(4,36) = 8.492; p < 0.0001 for the hippocampus]. Figure 3C
shows this variation for HCC subjects in the hippocampus. Levels of
IL-1 were highest at 10:00 A.M. near the beginning of
the sleep cycle and lowest at 5:00 P.M. near the end of the
sleep cycle [F(2,15) = 7.445; p < 0.01].
Effects of adrenalectomy on IS-induced increase in brain
IL-1 protein
Adrenal corticosteroids inhibit IL-1 gene transcription (Lee et
al., 1988; Amano et al., 1992). IS produces a rapid and prolonged rise
in corticosteroids (Fleshner et al., 1995), and so it is possible that
the corticosteroid response to IS masks possible alterations in IL-1
protein levels. To assess this possibility, rats were adrenalectomized
or given sham surgery. Half of the adrenalectomized subjects received
basal CORT replacement, and half did not. Figure
4, A and B, shows
brain IL-1 protein 2 hr after IS or HCC treatment in hypothalamus
and hippocampus, respectively. With respect to hypothalamus, IS again
had no effect on adrenal-intact subjects. However, IS produced a robust
increase in IL-1 in adrenalectomized subjects, whether basal CORT
was replaced [F(2,24) = 7.794;
p < 0.005]. The pattern in hippocampus was similar,
with the exception that the IL-1 increase produced by IS was only
prominent in the adrenalectomized and basal CORT-replaced subjects
[F(2,24) = 13.796; p < 0.0001].
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Figure 4.
A, B, Effects of adrenalectomy on
levels of IL-1 protein in the hypothalamus (A)
and hippocampus (B) at 2 hr after the end of the
stress session. IL-1 protein results were obtained by ELISA using
the anti-rat IL-1 polyclonal Ab from Dr. S. Poole. Sham HCC,
n = 6; ADX HCC, n = 6; ADX-cort
HCC, n = 6; sham IS, n = 3; ADX
IS, n = 4; ADX-cort IS, n = 5.
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These data were obtained using Ab from Dr. S. Poole. The
implications of these data were sufficiently important that the
experiment was repeated, and ELISAs were performed using the R & D kit. Furthermore, cerebellum, nucleus tractus solitarius, and
posterior cortex were analyzed in addition to hypothalamus and
hippocampus. Results from hypothalamus (Fig.
5A) and hippocampus (Fig.
5B) were similar to those obtained using Dr. Poole's Ab. IS
increased IL-1 protein in adrenalectomized but not sham subjects.
Again this increase occurred in both CORT-replaced and nonreplaced
subjects at 2 hr after IS. Large increases were also observed in
cerebellum (Fig. 5C) and nucleus tractus solitarius (Fig.
5D). In contrast, IS had no effect in posterior cortex (Fig.
5E) under any of the conditions [F(2,38) = 5.777; p < 0.01 for
hypothalamus; F(2,41) = 6.277; p < 0.005 for hippocampus; F(1,42) = 3.78;
p < 0.05 for cerebellum; F(1,40) = 9.359; p < 0.0005 for
nucleus tractus solitarius; and F(1,37) = 0.673;
p > 0.05 for posterior cortex].
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Figure 5.
A-E, Effects of adrenalectomy on
levels of IL-1 protein in the hypothalamus
(A), hippocampus (B),
cerebellum (C), nucleus tractus solitarius region
(D), and posterior cortex
(E) at 2 hr after the end of the stress session.
IL-1 protein results were obtained using the R & D ELISA kit. Sham
HCC, n = 8; sham IS, n = 6; ADX
HCC, n = 6; ADX IS, n = 8;
ADX-cort HCC, n = 8; ADX-cort IS,
n = 8.
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Verification of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement
Adrenalectomy was verified in the last IS experiment by measuring
serum CORT after a brief ether exposure, which has been shown to
rapidly activate the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) response.
Adrenalectomy eliminated the CORT response to ether [F(2,45) = 37.001; p < 0.0001] (data not shown). The CORT replacement procedure was verified
by examining thymus weight relative to total body weight of each
animal. Given that the thymus gland is very sensitive to levels of
circulating CORT, adrenalectomy should cause thymic hypertrophy,
because no corticosterone is present to influence lymphocyte maturation
in the thymus. If the corticosterone replacement therapy in the
adrenalectomized rats mimics natural basal CORT levels, a normalization
of thymus weight would be expected. Adrenalectomy caused a significant
increase in thymus weight, and this increase was normalized in the
adrenalectomized group that received CORT replacement
[F(2,45) = 22.517; p < 0.0001] compared with sham-operated controls (data not shown).
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DISCUSSION |
The purposes of the present experiments were to determine whether
IL-1 protein could be detected in rat brain under basal nonstimulated conditions, and whether a stressor would alter these levels. The ELISA was adopted as the measurement technique, because Ab
to rat IL-1 was available, and ELISAs are quite sensitive. Specificity of measurement is an issue with virtually all techniques designed to measure protein levels and is particularly problematic for
Ab-based procedures. It is straightforward to determine whether an Ab
recognizes the protein of interest, but it is not easy to prove that
the epitope that it recognizes is not also contained on other proteins.
To test Ab specificity for rat IL-1, several approaches were used.
First, Western blot showed a strong band at the molecular weight of
IL-1 and only one other faint band. This band was at the molecular
weight of the prohormone for IL-1. Thus it may be that the data
obtained partially reflect increases in the prohormone. This must
simply be acknowledged, and the reader should bear this in mind.
Second, the ELISA detected as much IL-1 in a fractionated sample as
in the whole sample, suggesting that the predominant molecule measured
was indeed mature IL-1. Third, the Ab precipitated rat IL-1 in an
immunoprecipitation procedure. Fourth, the Poole Ab has been studied
for cross-reactivity with a large number of other proteins (Garabedian
et al., 1995), and none was found. Finally, similar results were
obtained with two different Abs.
To further address this issue, we next sought to determine whether the
ELISA measured increases in brain IL-1 protein under conditions in
which IL-1 increases have been detected with other measurement
procedures. The peripheral administration of large doses of LPS has
been reported to increase brain IL-1 bioactivity (Fontana et al.,
1984; Coceani et al., 1988; Quan et al., 1994), immunoreactivity (Van
Dam et al., 1992; Hagan et al., 1993; Hillhouse and Mosley, 1993), and
mRNA (Ban et al., 1992; Buttini and Boddeke, 1995; Laye et al., 1994).
A very large dose of LPS (1 mg/kg) was chosen as a positive control in
the first experiment, not to test whether brain IL-1 is involved in
mediating the usual effects of LPS. Lower doses of LPS (1-100 µg)
were also examined using the R & D ELISA kit, which uses a different Ab
specific to rat IL-1. LPS did produce large increases in IL-1
protein in the brain, as measured by this ELISA as well. As with other
measurement techniques, this increase appeared to be regionally
nonspecific. In addition, brain IL-1 mRNA has recently been reported
to have a circadian rhythm (Taishi et al., 1997) that is roughly the
inverse of the glucocorticoid rhythm. IL-1 protein was therefore
measured here at different times of the day, and a circadian rhythm was also obtained in which IL-1 protein levels were highest near the beginning of the light period and lowest near the dark period. This
circadian rhythmicity is entirely in keeping with the proposal that
brain IL-1 plays a physiological role in sleep regulation (Opp and
Krueger, 1991).
In sum, all of the results were consistent with the proposition that
the ELISA detected IL-1 protein and was sensitive to changes in
IL-1 protein levels. The detection of IL-1 protein in the
undisturbed animal is consistent with the careful work of Quan et al.
(1996) showing IL-1 bioactivity in undisturbed animals. IL-1
specificity was verified in their bioassay system by demonstrating that
the measured bioactivity was completely blocked by the IL-1 receptor
antagonist. It must be noted that IL-1 mRNA has often been
undetectable under basal conditions (Gatti and Bartfai, 1993), but
IL-1 protein may be a more sensitive index of basal IL-1 in
brain, because IL-1 mRNA may only be transcribed after IL-1 has
been recently released or used. In addition, IL-1 mRNA may not be an
abundant brain mRNA and therefore may be difficult to detect, relative
to background, without amplification such as that provided by reverse
transcription-PCR (Laye et al., 1994; Taishi et al., 1997).
Furthermore, glucocorticoids specifically reduce IL-1 mRNA stability
(Lee et al., 1988; Amano et al., 1992), thereby rendering IL-1 mRNA
difficult to detect under a variety of conditions.
Inescapable shock had no detectable effect on IL-1 protein levels
measured immediately and 2, 7, 24, or 48 hr after exposure to the
stressor. However, glucocorticoids are known to potently suppress
IL-1 transcription and mRNA stability (Lee et al., 1988), and IS
produces a rapid increase in glucocorticoid levels that persist for
roughly 1 hr after the termination of the stressor (Fleshner et al.,
1995). Thus, the stressor might have provided input that would normally
increase brain IL-1 signal, but any potential increases might have
been inhibited by the glucocorticoids that are simultaneously
stimulated. Indeed, Goujon et al. (1995) reported that adrenalectomy
enhanced brain IL-1 mRNA increases produced by peripheral
administration of LPS. Although an increase in IL-1 protein was not
detected in adrenal-intact animals after stress, an effect of stress on
brain IL-1 may nevertheless still exist. Stress could easily produce
a small increase in IL-1 that is not detectable by ELISA, and small
amounts of IL-1 may have biological effects given its potency. In
addition, stress could modulate pro-IL-1 production or increase
interleukin-1-converting enzyme activity, changes that may occur at
a later time than assayed here or be unmeasurable by the ELISA used in
these studies.
The effects of IS on brain levels of IL-1 protein were therefore
examined in adrenalectomized subjects. Indeed, adrenalectomy unmasked a
stress-induced increase in brain IL-1 protein 2 hr after the
stressor in both hypothalamus and hippocampus. This increase was also
observed in adrenalectomized animals that were given basal
corticosterone replacement, supporting the argument that it was the
stress levels of glucocorticoids, rather than basal steroid, that
inhibited the stress-induced production of brain IL-1 protein in the
previous study. Interestingly, the IL-1 increase was regionally
specific, with no detectable increase in the posterior cortex. The
effects of immobilization observed by Minami et al. (1991) were also
regionally specific, with increases in mRNA for IL-1 present in the
hypothalamus but not cerebellum or midbrain. The brain regions examined
in the present experiments were chosen based on previous observations
implicating them in stress responses and peripheral immune challenge.
The hypothalamus is a critical site mediating responses to IL-1 such
as HPA activation and fever induction (Sapolsky et al., 1987; Klir et
al., 1994). The cerebellum and the posterior cortex were chosen as
control regions, largely because they have not been considered as
important brain sites in the development of stress responses.
Although the source of brain IL-1 was not addressed in the present
studies, several experiments have examined this issue. Human fetal
microglia, as well as rat microglia, have been shown to express mRNA
for IL-1 after peripheral LPS (Lee et al., 1993; Buttini and
Boddeke, 1995). Immunoreactivity has also been found for IL-1 in
ramified microglia and endothelial cells lining the venules (Van Dam et
al., 1995). Furthermore, in situ hybridization has detected
IL-1 mRNA for IL-1 in murine brain microvessel endothelial cells
(Fabry et al., 1993). Although controversial, a neural source of
IL-1 has also been reported (Molenaar et al., 1993; Pestarino et
al., 1997).
The present data suggest a parallel between inflammatory stimuli and
stressors, a parallel that has been noted often (Dunn, 1995).
Similarities between the neurochemical, endocrine, and behavioral
sequelae of immune challenge and stressors have been described
frequently (Maier and Watkins, 1998). The physiological and
psychological effects of immune challenge can resemble those caused by
stressors. Influenza viral infection has been shown to increase plasma
corticosterone and brain catecholamine metabolism (Dunn et al., 1989),
effects that are also observed in response to stress (Shintani et al.,
1995b). Yirmiya (1995) has recently reported depressive-like behaviors
in rats after an endotoxin challenge that include reduced social
interaction, food consumption, and locomotor activity, all of which
have been implicated as responses to stressors (Johnson et al., 1992).
The present data add one more parallel, namely, the production of
increases in brain IL-1. As with other sequelae of immune
stimulation and stress, the IL-1 changes showed a family
resemblance, not an identity. The regional distribution of IL-1
changes were not the same in the two cases, just as patterns of neural
activation are not identical after stress and immune challenge (Rivest
et al., 1995). However, patterns of neural activation differ between
stressors (Li et al., 1996), so identity is not to be expected.
Finally, an activation of IL-1 usage by the IS stressor used in the
present studies is entirely in keeping with documented similarities
between the effects of IS and the intracerebroventricular administration of IL-1. Intracerebroventricular IL-1 produces reductions in social interaction (Propes and Johnson, 1997), reductions in food and water intake (Kent et al., 1994), suppressed peripheral immune responses (Sundar et al., 1989), fever (Ovadia et al., 1989),
and aspects of the acute phase response such as increases in acute
phase proteins and decreases in negative reactants, such as carrier
proteins (Morimoto et al., 1988; Morimoto et al., 1989). IS produces
all of these (Laudenslager et al., 1988; Fleshner et al., 1992; Short
and Maier, 1993), even prolonged fever, increases in circulating acute
phase proteins, and decreases in circulating carrier proteins (Deak et
al., 1997). It is important to note that all stressors do not produce
these outcomes; they are specific to the stressor used. It may be that
these outcomes are mediated by the induction of brain IL-1, and that
there will be selectivity in terms of which stressors do, and do not,
alter brain IL-1.
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FOOTNOTES |
Received Oct. 23, 1997; revised Dec. 15, 1997; accepted Dec. 31, 1997.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant MH45045,
a National Institute of Mental Health minority student fellowship to
K.T.N., and the Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program at the
University of Colorado to S.M.O. We thank Dr. Steven Poole for the
supply of anti-rat IL-1 antibody, Debra Berkelhammer for technical
assistance on the bioassays, and Dr. Robert L. Spencer for assistance
on the Western blot protein analysis.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Kien T. Nguyen, Department of
Psychology, Campus Box 345, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.
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