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ArticleImmunology2011

An in vitro experimental model of neuroinflammation: the induction of interleukin-6 in murine astrocytes infected with Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus, and its inhibition by oestrogenic receptor modulators.

Nazario Rubio, Marie Cerciat, Mikko Unkila, Luis M Garcia-Segura, Maria-Angeles Arevalo

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Article in Immunology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nazario RubioInstituto Cajal. C.S.I.C, Madrid, Spain. nazario@cajal.csic.es
Marie Cerciat
Mikko Unkila
Luis M Garcia-Segura
Maria-Angeles Arevalo
Instituto Cajal · ESEurométropole de Strasbourg · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper describes an experimental model of neuroinflammation based on the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) by neural glial cells infected with Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV). Production of IL-6 mRNA in mock-infected and TMEV-infected SJL/J murine astrocytes was examined using the Affymetrix murine genome U74v2 DNA microarray. The IL-6 mRNA from infected cells showed an eightfold increase in hybridization to a sequence encoding IL-6 located on chromosome number 5. Quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR (qPCR) was used to study the regulation of IL-6 expression. The presence of IL-6 in the supernatants of TMEV-infected astrocyte cultures was quantified by ELISA and found to be weaker than in cultures of infected macrophages. The IL-6 was induced by whole TMEV virions, but not by Ad.βGal adenovirus, purified TMEV capsid proteins, or UV-inactivated virus. Two recombinant inflammatory cytokines, IL-1α and tumour necrosis factor-α were also found to be potent inducers of IL-6. The secreted IL-6 was biologically active because it fully supported B9 hybridoma proliferation in a [(3) H]thymidine incorporation bioassay. The cerebrospinal fluid of infected mice contained IL-6 during the acute encephalitis phase, peaking at days 2-4 post-infection. Finally, this in vitro neuroinflammation model was fully inhibited, as demonstrated by ELISA and qPCR, by five selective oestrogen receptor modulators.

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TheilovirusAnimalsAstrocytesCardiovirus InfectionsCells, CulturedDisease Models, AnimalEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayEstrogen Receptor ModulatorsGene Expression RegulationInflammationInterleukin-18Interleukin-6MacrophagesMiceModels, ImmunologicalOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisEstrogen Receptor ModulatorsInterleukin-18Interleukin-6

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PMID21564094
PMCPMC3112345
OpenAlexW1515367126

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