title: Differential central nervous system responses following single and multiple recombinant interleukin-2 infusions.
abstract: The effects of systemic recombinant human interleukin-2 (rIL-2) infusion on cerebrovascular permeability to an endogenous circulating macromolecule, immunoglobulin G (IgG), were assessed in rats after single and multiple rIL-2 infusions. Ultrastructural detail of the cerebral vasculature and the related brain parenchyma was also examined for rIL-2-related changes following single and multiple infusions. Animals examined 6 and 24 h after a single rIL-2 infusion exhibited moderately increased permeability to IgG that was not observed in those animals examined 6 h after 5 days of rIL-2 infusion. Alterations of cerebrovascular morphology were evident as early as 6 h after a single infusion and were accompanied by occasional axonal degeneration and demyelination. Such structural changes persisted, becoming more widespread after 5 days of rIL-2 infusion, at which time they were associated with other neuronal as well as glial alterations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond 23298-0709.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Ellison
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Krieg
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Povlishock
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002199:Capillary Permeability / Q000187:drug effects*; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000378:metabolism; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007376:Interleukin-2; D011994:Recombinant Proteins