Signaling the brain in systemic inflammation:: which vagal branch is involved in fever genesis?

被引:101
作者
Simons, CT [1 ]
Kulchitsky, VA [1 ]
Sugimoto, N [1 ]
Homer, LD [1 ]
Székely, M [1 ]
Romanovsky, AA [1 ]
机构
[1] Legacy Holladay Pk Med Ctr, Thermoregulat Lab, Portland, OR 97208 USA
关键词
temperature regulation; neuroimmunomodulation; febrile response; lipopolysaccharides; liver; selective vagotomy; rats;
D O I
10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.1.R63
中图分类号
Q4 [生理学];
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071003 ;
摘要
Recent evidence has suggested a role of abdominal vagal afferents in the pathogenesis of the febrile response. The abdominal vagus consists of five main branches (viz., the anterior and posterior celiac branches, anterior and posterior gastric branches, and hepatic branch). The branch responsible for transducing a pyrogenic signal from the periphery to the brain has not as yet been identified. In the present study, we address this issue by testing the febrile responsiveness of male Wistar rats subjected to one of four selective vagotomies: celiac (CBV), gastric (GBV), hepatic (HBV), or sham (SV). In the case of CBV, GBV, and HBV, only the particular vagal branch(es) was cut; for SV, all branches were left intact. After the postsurgical recovery (26-29 days), the rats had a catheter implanted into the jugular vein. On days 29-32, their colonic temperature (T-c) responses to a low dose (1 mu g/kg) of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were studied. Three days later, the animals were subjected to a 24-h food and water deprivation, and the effectiveness of the four vagotomies to induce gastric food retention, pancreatic hypertrophy, and impairment of the portorenal osmotic reflex was assessed by weighing the stomach and pancreas and measuring the specific gravity of bladder urine, respectively. Stomach mass, pancreas mass, and urine density successfully separated the four experimental groups into four distinct clusters, thus confirming that each type of vagotomy had a different effect on the indexes measured. The T-c responses of SV, CBV, and GBV rats to LPS did not differ and were characterized by a latency of similar to 40 min and a maximal rise of 0.7 +/- 0.1, 0.6 +/- 0.1, and 0.9 +/- 0.2 degrees C, respectively. The fever response of the HBV rats was different; practically no T-c rise occurred (0.1 +/- 0.2 degrees C). The HBV appeared to be the only selective abdominal vagotomy affecting the febrile responsiveness. We conclude, therefore, that the hepatic vagus plays an important role in the transduction ofa pyrogenic signal from the periphery to the brain.
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