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The Contribution of the Vagus Nerve in Interleukin-1beta-induced Fever is Dependent on Dose

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Specialty Physiology
Date 2001 Mar 15
PMID 11247812
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Abstract

It has been suggested that proinflammatory cytokines communicate to the brain via a neural pathway involving activation of vagal afferents by interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), in addition to blood-borne routes. In support, subdiaphragmatic vagotomy blocks IL-1beta-induced, brain-mediated responses such as fever. However, vagotomy has also been reported to be ineffective. Neural signaling would be expected to be especially important at low doses of cytokine, when local actions could occur, but only very small quantities of cytokine would become systemic. Here, we examined core body temperature after intraperitoneal injections of three doses of recombinat human IL-1beta (rh-IL-1beta). Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy completely blocked the fever produced by 0.1 microg/kg, only partially blocked the fever produced by 0.5 microg/kg, and had no effect at all on the fever that followed 1.0 microg/kg rh-IL-1beta. Blood levels of rh-IL-1beta did not become greater than normal basal levels of endogenous rat IL-beta until the 0.5-microg/kg dose nor was IL-1beta induced in the pituitary until this dose. These results suggest that low doses of intraperitoneal IL-1beta induce fever via a vagal route and that dose may account for some of the discrepancies in the literature.

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