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  • Title: Arthritis-susceptible Lewis rats fail to emerge from the stress hyporesponsive period.
    Author: Aksentijevich S, Whitfield HJ, Young WS, Wilder RL, Chrousos GP, Gold PW, Sternberg EM.
    Journal: Brain Res Dev Brain Res; 1992 Jan 17; 65(1):115-8. PubMed ID: 1551226.
    Abstract:
    Susceptibility to streptococcal cell wall (SCW)-induced arthritis in 4- to 6-week-old Lewis (LEW/N) rats is associated with blunted glucocorticoid production secondary to a profound defect in inflammatory mediator-induced hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) biosynthesis and secretion. The relative SCW arthritis resistance in histocompatible Fischer (F344/N) rats, on the other hand, is associated with robust hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to inflammatory mediators. In this study, we investigated HPA axis responses to SCW during the postnatal developmental period in LEW/N and F344/N rats. We found that SCW-induced plasma corticosterone (CORT) responses do not significantly increase during development in LEW/N, while such responses clearly appear at postnatal day 14 in F344/N and outbred Harlan-Sprague-Dawley (HSD) rats. Additionally, LEW/N rats fail to exhibit the normal ontogenic increase in CRH mRNA levels in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), whereas their SCW-induced PVN CRH mRNA responses are blunted compared to F344/N at postnatal day 14. Taken together, these results suggest that LEW/N rats fail to emerge completely from their stress hyporesponsive period. This may account for the lack of stress responsiveness in young adult LEW/N rats, and consequently, for their susceptibility to SCW-induced arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.
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