Bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of interleukin-6 messenger ribonucleic acid in the rat hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal gland, and spleen - PubMed (original) (raw)

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of interleukin-6 messenger ribonucleic acid in the rat hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal gland, and spleen

N Muramami et al. Endocrinology. 1993 Dec.

Abstract

Whereas the stimulatory effect of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is well established, its mode of action in this axis has yet to be fully elucidated. To further study the role of IL-6 in the HPA axis, we compared the expression of IL-6 messenger RNA (mRNA) in the rat hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal gland with that in the spleen after ip or intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). After either ip or icv administration, LPS induced the expression of IL-6 mRNA, which consists of 1.2 kilobases (kb) and 2.4 kb subclasses, in all these tissues of the HPA axis as well as in the spleen. Although we used 100 times less amount of LPS for the icv administration than that used for ip LPS, plasma ACTH levels in both the conditions rapidly reached comparable levels. This icv dose induced IL-6 mRNA expression in the hypothalamus faster than ip dose but also stimulated IL-6 mRNA expression in the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal gland more effectively and smoothly than the ip LPS dose did. Northern blot analysis revealed that in the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenals, the predominant subclass of IL-6 mRNA was not 1.2 kb but 2.4 kb. In contrast, this subclass was the minor component in the spleen induced under the same circumstances. These findings indicate that IL-6-synthesizing cells in the HPA axis differ in character from those in the spleen, and that LPS applied in vivo may modulate IL-6 expression in these cells directly and/or indirectly through secondarily activated functions in the neuronal or endocrine systems.

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Bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of interleukin-6 messenger ribonucleic acid in the rat hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal gland, and spleen - PubMed (original) (raw)