title: In vivo vitamin E administration attenuates interleukin-6 and interleukin-1beta responses to an acute inflammatory insult in mouse skeletal and cardiac muscle.
abstract: Antioxidants are associated with reduced pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in immune cells and isolated tissues; however, no studies have examined whether short-term vitamin E administration is associated with reduced lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced cytokine expression in mouse skeletal and cardiac muscle, in vivo. These experiments tested the hypothesis that vitamin E administration attenuates nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB), IL-6, IL-1beta and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) responses in skeletal and cardiac muscle to an inflammatory challenge induced by systemic LPS. We compared IL-6, IL-1beta and TNFalpha mRNA and protein, activated NF-kappaB and total oxidized proteins in skeletal and cardiac muscle 4 or 24 h after saline or LPS injection in mice receiving vitamin E or placebo for 3 days prior to the insult. Skeletal and cardiac IL-6 mRNA and protein were significantly elevated by LPS in both groups, but responses were significantly lower in vitamin E- compared with placebo-treated mice. In skeletal and cardiac muscle, LPS increased IL-1beta mRNA and protein in placebo- but not vitamin E-treated mice. Lipopolysaccharide-induced levels of cardiac IL-1beta mRNA and protein and skeletal IL-1beta mRNA were lower with vitamin E than placebo. Lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kappaB activation and increases in total oxidized proteins were attenuated with vitamin E compared with placebo in both tissues. Vitamin E decreased LPS-induced increases in plasma IL-1beta but not IL-6 compared with placebo. The major results provide the first in vivo evidence that short-term vitamin E administration reduces IL-6 and IL-1beta responses to LPS in skeletal and cardiac muscle and prevents LPS-induced increases in NF-kappaB activation and total oxidized proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 120 Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. khuey@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Huey
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fiscus
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Richwine
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Meador
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D007249:Inflammation / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D053583:Interleukin-1beta / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000276:immunology; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000276:immunology; D050050:Protein Carbonylation / Q000187:drug effects; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000975:Antioxidants; D053583:Interleukin-1beta; D015850:Interleukin-6; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D016328:NF-kappa B; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D014810:Vitamin E