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J Physiol Vol 451 pp 491-502
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Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone suppresses fever and increases in plasma levels of prostaglandin E2 in the rabbit.

 J Davidson, A S Milton and D Rotondo

Division of Pharmacology, Marischal College, Aberdeen University.

1. The effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) on changes in body temperature and plasma levels of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) were measured in the rabbit following intravenous injection of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), rabbit endogenous pyrogen (EP), human recombinant tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), human recombinant interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and intracerebroventricular injection of PGE2. 2. LPS (25 ng kg-1), EP (25 microliters kg-1), TNF-alpha (11 micrograms kg-1) and IL-1 beta (5 ng kg-1) produced increases in body temperature simultaneously with increases in plasma PGE2 levels. alpha-MSH (5 or 10 micrograms kg-1) attenuated both the increase in body temperature and increases in plasma levels of PGE2. 3. Intracerebroventricular injection of PGE2 (500 ng) produced a monophasic increase in body temperature. alpha-MSH (5 micrograms kg-1) administered 20 min after PGE2 had no effect on the hyperthermic response. 4. alpha-MSH (10 micrograms kg-1) had no effect on either body temperature or plasma levels of PGE2 in response to I.V. injection of sterile saline. 5. These data demonstrate that alpha-MSH inhibits both the pyrogenic actions of LPS, EP, TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta and their ability to increase PGE2 release without affecting the direct actions of PGE2, suggesting the possibility that alpha-MSH may prevent the synthesis of PGE2 either by preventing the actions or release of mediators such as TNF-alpha and IL-1 in response to LPS.




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