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CC Chao, G Gekker, WS Sheng, S Hu, M Tsang and PK Peterson
Neuroimmunobiology and Host Defense Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minnesota.
Opiates alter a variety of functional activities of the somatic immune system; within the central nervous system, however, their effects on immune responses are unknown. In the present study, we investigated the effect of morphine on the release of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha from murine neonatal microglia. Microglial cell cultures did not release TNF-alpha when incubated with morphine alone; however, an enhanced (P < .01) release of TNF-alpha was observed when cultures were first primed with morphine for 24 h and then stimulated with lipopolysaccharide. A bell-shaped dose-response curve was observed for the priming effect of morphine; maximal enhancement of TNF-alpha release (310 +/- 15% of control) was detected at a concentration of 10(- 10) M morphine. Pretreatment of microglia for 30 min with opioid receptor antagonists (i.e. naloxone and beta-funaltrexamine) completely blocked the priming effect of morphine. In addition, morphine treatment amplified (P < .01) the priming effect of lipopolysaccharide on phorbol myristate acetate-triggered superoxide anion production by microglial cell cultures, and this effect was abrogated (P < .01) by anti-TNF- alpha antibody. Furthermore, culture supernatants derived from microglial cell cultures that had been treated with morphine before stimulation with lipopolysaccharide had an increased capacity to upregulate human immunodeficiency virus-1 expression in the latently infected promonocytic clone U1. This effect was also blocked by anti- TNF-alpha antibody. These findings suggest that morphine primes microglia for enhanced production of TNF-alpha which could alter several functional activities of these cells within the brain.
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