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  • Title: The effect of a single intraperitoneal dose of hrIL-1 alpha on substance P-, neurokinin A-, calcitonin gene-related peptide- and neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactivity in cerebrospinal fluid, plasma and knee joint synovial fluid in the rat.
    Author: Bileviciute I, Lundeberg T, Ekblom A, Theodorsson E.
    Journal: Regul Pept; 1994 Aug 31; 53(1):71-6. PubMed ID: 7528438.
    Abstract:
    Substance P (SP)-, neurokinin A (NKA)-, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)- and neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like immunoreactivity (-LI) was studied in rats' cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), plasma and synovial fluid (SF) from both knee joints at 2 and 24 h following an intraperitoneal administration of 0.05 ml human recombinant interleukin-1 alpha (i.p. hrIL-1 alpha) or saline. Increased or decreased levels of SP-, NKA and CGRP-LI were detected in CSF and plasma, whereas NPY-LI was unaffected. In SF only CGRP-LI increased bilaterally. There was a correlation in CGRP-LI content between plasma and CSF following i.p. hrIL-1 alpha but not between plasma and SF or CSF and SF. It can be concluded that (1) i.p. hrIL-1 alpha activates somatosensory afferents thereby increasing SP- and CGRP-LI content in CSF and plasma and NKA-LI in CSF; 2) i.p. hrIL-1 alpha induces a bilateral increase of CGRP-LI in SF which is not mediated through systemic circulation and is possibly a part of the general host defensive reaction.
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