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The effect of systemic inflammation on human brain barrier function

The effect of systemic inflammation on human brain barrier function
The effect of systemic inflammation on human brain barrier function
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays an important role in the clinical expression of neuropsychiatric symptoms during systemic illness in health and neurological disease. Evidence from in vitro and preclinical in vivo studies indicate that systemic inflammation impairs blood-brain barrier function. In order to investigate this hypothesis, we evaluated the association between systemic inflammatory markers (leucocytes, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein) and BBB function (cerebrospinal fluid/serum albumin ratio) in 1273 consecutive lumbar punctures. In the absence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormality, systemic inflammation did not affect the CSF/serum albumin ratio. When CSF abnormality was present, systemic inflammation significantly predicted the CSF/serum albumin ratio. Amongst the systemic inflammatory markers, C-reactive protein was the predominant driver of this effect. Temporal analysis in this association study suggested causality. In conclusion, the diseased BBB has an increased susceptibility to systemic inflammation.
0889-1591
35-40
Elwood, Elliot
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Lim, Zhi
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Naveed, Hammad
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Galea, Ian
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Elwood, Elliot
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Lim, Zhi
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Naveed, Hammad
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Galea, Ian
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Elwood, Elliot, Lim, Zhi, Naveed, Hammad and Galea, Ian (2017) The effect of systemic inflammation on human brain barrier function. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 62, 35-40. (doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2016.10.020).

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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays an important role in the clinical expression of neuropsychiatric symptoms during systemic illness in health and neurological disease. Evidence from in vitro and preclinical in vivo studies indicate that systemic inflammation impairs blood-brain barrier function. In order to investigate this hypothesis, we evaluated the association between systemic inflammatory markers (leucocytes, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein) and BBB function (cerebrospinal fluid/serum albumin ratio) in 1273 consecutive lumbar punctures. In the absence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormality, systemic inflammation did not affect the CSF/serum albumin ratio. When CSF abnormality was present, systemic inflammation significantly predicted the CSF/serum albumin ratio. Amongst the systemic inflammatory markers, C-reactive protein was the predominant driver of this effect. Temporal analysis in this association study suggested causality. In conclusion, the diseased BBB has an increased susceptibility to systemic inflammation.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 November 2016
Published date: May 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 412758
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/412758
ISSN: 0889-1591
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ORCID for Ian Galea: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1268-5102

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Author: Elliot Elwood
Author: Zhi Lim
Author: Hammad Naveed
Author: Ian Galea ORCID iD

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