In vivo expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in rat brain following intraparenchymal injection of bacterial endotoxin and inflammatory cytokines
Minghetti, L., Walsh, D.T., Levi, G. and Perry, V.H. (1999) In vivo expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in rat brain following intraparenchymal injection of bacterial endotoxin and inflammatory cytokines. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 58, (11), 1184-1191.
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Description/Abstract
To clarify the role played by prostaglandins in acute brain inflammation we studied the expression of the key enzyme in their formation, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), following microinjection of bacterial endotoxin (LPS), interleukin-1 (3 (IL-I[beta]), tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-[alpha]), and interferon--[gamma] (IFN--[gamma]), in the rat dorsal hippocampus. In spite of the extensive astrocyte and microglial reaction, at 24 hours after LPS injection COX-2 immunoreactivity (COX-2-ir) was exclusively associated with infiltrating neutrophils and with perivascular cells of blood vessels in the area surrounding the injection site. Microinjection of IFN-7 did not alter COX-2-ir, whereas TNF-[alpha] or IL-I[beta] injection induced a moderate COX-2-ir in the perivascular cells of a few blood vessels close to the injection site, and in very few of the infiltrating neutrophils. When ILI[beta], but not TNF-[alpha] or INF--[gamma], was injected in combination with LPS, a strong COX-2-ir was associated with the perivascular cells of most blood vessels in the injected hemisphere and of several of those in the uninjected hemisphere. In addition, COX- 2-ir was detected in neutrophils and in several parenchymal cells surrounding the injection site. The parenchymal and perivascular COX-2-positive cells showed a microglia/macrophage-like morphology, as compared with the GSI-B4 isolectin and ED-1 staining, specific for macrophages. Since the constitutive neuronal COX-2 was not affected by any of the conditions studied, the macrophage-like cells found in the perivascular region and in the parenchyma may represent the main source of prostaglandins during focal inflammatory responses in the brain.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0022-3069 (print) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RB Pathology Q Science > QR Microbiology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Biological Sciences |
| Item ID: | 56454 |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2013 01:15 |
| Contributors: | Minghetti, L. (Author) Walsh, D.T. (Author) Levi, G. (Author) Perry, V.H. (Author) |
| Date: | November 1999 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/56454 |
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