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  • Title: Effects of cytokines on pituitary beta-endorphin and adrenal corticosterone release in vitro.
    Author: van der Meer MJ, Hermus AR, Pesman GJ, Sweep CG.
    Journal: Cytokine; 1996 Mar; 8(3):238-47. PubMed ID: 8833039.
    Abstract:
    We investigated the effects of recombinant human IL-1 alpha, -1 beta, -2, -6 and TNF on the in vitro secretion of beta-endorphin-immunoreactivity (beta E-IR) by the rat anterior and neurointermediate lobes (AL and NIL, respectively) and of B by the rat adrenal gland. Isolated AL and NIL cells were incubated for 2 h with cytokines (1 pg/m1(-1) mu g/ml), CRH (5.10(-10) M) or with cytokines in combination with CRH (AL cells), isolated adrenal cells were incubated for 2 h with cytokines, ACTH (25 pg/ml) or with cytokines in combination with ACTH. Furthermore, AL, NIL and adrenal tissue fragments were superfused for 30 or 60 min with cytokines (10 and/or 100 ng/ml). Incubation of AL, NIL and adrenal cells and superfusion of these tissues with cytokines had no significant effect on beta E-IR and B release. However, there are some exceptions: incubation of AL cells with IL-2 increased CRH-induced beta E-IR release, incubation of NIL cells with IL-2 induced an increase of basal beta E-IR release, ACTH-induced B secretion was reduced after co-incubation of adrenal cells with TNF and after prolonged (6 h) superfusion of adrenal tissue with TNF, and finally, prolonged (6 h) superfusion of adrenal fragments with IL-1 beta increased basal B release. Taken together, these data suggest that the acute activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis of rats by administration of cytokines (at least IL-1, IL-6 and TNF) in vivo is not mediated by a direct action of these cytokines at the level of the pituitary and/or adrenal gland.
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