Adrenocorticotropin reverses hemorrhagic shock in anesthetized rats through the rapid activation of a vagal anti-inflammatory pathway

Cardiovascular Research
S GuariniA Bertolini

Abstract

Several melanocortin peptides have a prompt and sustained resuscitating effect in conditions of hemorrhagic shock. The transcription nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) triggers a potentially lethal systemic inflammatory response, with marked production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), in hemorrhagic shock. Here we investigated whether the hemorrhagic shock reversal produced by the melanocortin ACTH-(1-24) (adrenocorticotropin) depends on the activation of the recently recognized, vagus nerve-mediated, brain "cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway". Anesthetized rats were stepwise bled until mean arterial pressure (MAP) stabilized at 20-25 mm Hg. The severe hypovolemia was incompatible with survival, and all saline-treated animals died within 30 min. In rats intravenously (i.v.) treated with ACTH-(1-24), neural efferent activity along vagus nerve (monitored by means of a standard system for extracellular recordings) was markedly increased, and the restoration of cardiovascular and respiratory functions was associated with blunted NF-kappaB activity and with decreased TNF-alpha mRNA liver content and TNF-alpha plasma levels. Bilateral cervical vagotomy, pretreatment with the melanocortin MC(4) receptor antagonist HS014, ...Continue Reading

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