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Inflammatory cytokines TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6 are induced in endotoxin-stimulated microglia through different signaling cascades
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Journal Article
Inflammatory cytokines TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6 are induced in endotoxin-stimulated microglia through different signaling cascades
2021
Overview
By using an animal model in which inflammatory cytokines are induced in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-injected rat brain, we investigated the induction of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), interleukin-1beta (IL-1β), and IL-6. Immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry revealed that all three cytokines were transiently induced in the cerebral cortex at about 12 h after LPS injection. To clarify which glial cell type induced the cytokines, we examined the respective abilities of astrocytes and microglia in vitro. Primary microglia largely induced TNFα, IL-1β and IL-6 in response to LPS, but primary astrocytes induced only limited levels of TNFα. Thus, we used specific inhibitors to focus on microglia in surveying signaling molecules involved in the induction of TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6. The experiments using mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) inhibitors revealed that c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)/p38, external signal regulated kinase (ERK)/JNK, and ERK/JNK/p38 are necessary for the induction of TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6, respectively. The experiments using protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor clarified that PKCα is required for the induction of all these cytokines in LPS-stimulated microglia. Furthermore, LPS-dependent IL-1β/IL-6 induction was suppressed by pretreatment with a nitric oxide (NO) scavenger, suggesting that NO is involved in the signaling cascade of IL-1β/IL-6 induction. Thus, an inducible NO synthase induced in the LPS-injected cerebral cortex might be related to the induction of IL-1β/IL-6 through the production of NO in vivo. Taken together, these results demonstrated that microglia induce different kinds of inflammatory cytokine through specific combinations of MAPKs and by the presence or absence of NO.
Publisher
Sage Publications, Ltd,SAGE Publications,Sage Publications Ltd
Subject
/ Animals
/ Extracellular signal-regulated kinase
/ IL-1β
/ Interleukin-1beta - genetics
/ Interleukin-1beta - metabolism
/ Kinases
/ Lipopolysaccharides - metabolism
/ Lipopolysaccharides - toxicity
/ Proteins
/ Rats
/ Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - genetics
