Neonatal Infection-Induced Memory Impairment after Lipopolysaccharide in Adulthood Is Prevented via Caspase-1 Inhibition
Abstract
<jats:p>We have reported that neonatal infection leads to memory impairment after an immune challenge in adulthood. Here we explored whether events occurring as a result of early infection alter the response to a subsequent immune challenge in adult rats, which may then impair memory. In experiment 1, peripheral infection with<jats:italic>Escherichia coli</jats:italic>on postnatal day 4 increased cytokines and corticosterone in the periphery, and cytokine and microglial cell marker gene expression in the hippocampus of neonate pups. Next, rats treated neonatally with<jats:italic>E. coli</jats:italic>or PBS were injected in adulthood with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or saline and killed 1–24 h later. Microglial cell marker mRNA was elevated in hippocampus in saline controls infected as neonates. Furthermore, LPS induced a greater increase in glial cell marker mRNA in hippocampus of neonatally infected rats, and this increase remained elevated at 24 h versus controls. After LPS, neonatally infected rats exhibited faster increases in interleukin-1β (IL-1β) within the hippocampus and cortex and a prolonged response within the cortex. There were no group differences in peripheral cytokines or corticosterone. In experiment 2, rats treated neonatally with<jats:italic>E. coli</jats:italic>or PBS received as adults either saline or a centrally administered caspase-1 inhibitor, which specifically prevents the synthesis of IL-1β, 1 h before a learning event and subsequent LPS challenge. Caspase-1 inhibition completely prevented LPS-induced memory impairment in neonatally infected rats. These data implicate IL-1β in the set of immune/inflammatory events that occur in the brain as a result of neonatal infection, which likely contribute to cognitive alterations in adulthood.</jats:p>
Journal
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- The Journal of Neuroscience
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The Journal of Neuroscience 25 (35), 8000-8009, 2005-08-31
Society for Neuroscience
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1362262945798489984
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- NII Article ID
- 30010125539
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- ISSN
- 15292401
- 02706474
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- Data Source
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- Crossref
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