1. Activation of central muscarinic receptor type 1 prevents development of endotoxin tolerance in rat liver.
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Eftekhari, Golnar, Hajiasgharzadeh, Khalil, Ahmadi-Soleimani, S. Mohammad, Dehpour, Ahmad R., Semnanian, Saeed, and Mani, Ali R.
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MUSCARINIC receptors , *ENDOTOXINS , *CENTRAL nervous system physiology , *CHOLINERGIC mechanisms , *ANTI-inflammatory agents , *LABORATORY rats , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
Endotoxin tolerance is a mechanism in which cells receiving low doses of endotoxin, enter a transient phase with less inflammatory response to the next endotoxin challenges. Central nervous system is known to modulate systemic inflammation through activation of the cholinergic system; however, the role of central anti-inflammatory pathway in pathophysiology of hepatic endotoxin tolerance is unknown. Our study was designed to assess the effect central muscarinic type 1 receptor (M 1 ) activation on development of endotoxin tolerance in rat liver. Endotoxin tolerance was induced by daily intraperitoneal injection of endotoxin (1 mg/kg) for 5 days. Animals were randomly divided into two groups which received intracerebroventricular injection of either MCNA-343 (an M 1 agonist, 5 ng/kg) or saline 1 h after intraperitoneal injection of saline or endotoxin. The responsiveness to endotoxin was assessed by measuring hepatic MCP-1 (monocyte chemotactic protein-1), iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase) and TNF-α (tumor necrosis-α) mRNA expression 3 h after intraperitoneal administration of endotoxin using quantitative RT-PCR. A significant reduction in hepatic expression of MCP-1, iNOS and TNF-α was observed in rats with 5 days endotoxin challenge in comparison with rats given a single dose of endotoxin. There was no significant difference in hepatic expression of MCP-1, iNOS or TNF-α between acute and chronic LPS-treated groups in rats given MCNA-343. Central MCNA-343 stimulation could prevent the induction of hepatic endotoxin tolerance in animals receiving repeated doses of endotoxin. This indicates that M 1 cholinergic receptor activation in the central nervous system can modulate endotoxin tolerance in rat liver. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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