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Strategies for Study of Neuroprotection from Cold-preconditioning
Published on: September 2, 2010
[Cytokine neurobiology: behavior and adaptive responses]
1Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Russian Acad. Med. Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
Reactions of the brain to systemic LPS or IL-1 beta treatment were shown to have different thresholds, be mediated by different neurotransmitter systems, and have different mechanisms of realisation. Changes in behaviour and neurotransmitter systems activity of the hypothalamus induced by a systemic IL-1 beta treatment were shown to be mediated by its receptors in the brain. Expression of mRNA of the tumour necrosis factor was revealed in the rabbit brain following administration of high pyrogenic doses of the LPS. The data obtained corroborate the concept of the cytokines role in maintenance of the defence responses in activation of the immune system, as well as their probable role in normal mechanisms of physiological functions control.
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