Affiliation:
1. MAFF Laboratory of Welfare and Behaviour, Babraham Institute,Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Abstract
Low intravenous doses of endotoxin [lipopolysaccharide (LPS), 0.7 microgram/kg] induce monophasic fever, increase anterior and posterior pituitary hormone release, and enhance hypothalamic c-Fos expression in pigs, all of which can be prevented by indomethacin (Ind). The present study shows that the synthetic corticosteroid dexamethasone (Dex, 5 mg/kg) has a similar action to Ind and, when given alone, lowers core temperature. In addition, the corticosteroid synthesis inhibitor metyrapone (Met, 3.3 mg/kg, every one-half hour) reduces LPS fever and amplifies the effect of LPS on vasopressin, but not on oxytocin, release. The similar actions of Dex and Ind suggest that phospholipase A2 pathways controlling prostaglandin synthesis mediate the responses of prepubertal pigs to immunological challenge with LPS. The increased vasopressin release induced when animals receiving Met are also given LPS supports findings in other nonrodent species indicating an inverse relationship between cortisol and vasopressin. The attenuation of LPS fever by Met is suggestive of an endogenous antipyretic mechanism associated with enhanced neurohypophysial vasopressin secretion.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
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24 articles.
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