Interleukin-18 promotes sleep in rabbits and rats

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Abstract

Interleukin (IL)-1β is involved in physiological sleep regulation. IL-18 is a member of the IL-1 family, and its signal-transduction mechanism is similar to that of IL-1. Therefore, we hypothesized that IL-18 might also be involved in sleep regulation. Three doses of IL-18 (10, 100, and 500 ng) were injected intracerebroventricularly (icv) into rabbits at the onset of the dark period. The two higher doses of IL-18 markedly increased non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREMS), accompanied by increases in brain temperature (Tbr). These effects were lost after the heat inactivation of IL-18. The 500 ng of IL-18 injection during the light period also increased NREMS and Tbr. Similar results were obtained after icv injection of 100 ng of IL-18 into rats. Furthermore, intraperitoneal injection of 30 μg/kg of IL-18 slightly, but significantly, increased NREMS, whereas it significantly decreased electroencephalogram slow-wave activity in rats. Intraperitoneal IL-18 failed to induce fever. An anti-human IL-18 antibody had little effect on spontaneous sleep in rabbits, although the anti-IL-18 antibody significantly attenuated muramyl dipeptide-induced sleep. These data suggest that IL-18 is involved in mechanisms of sleep responses to infection.

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Kubota, T., Fang, J., Brown, R. A., & Krueger, J. M. (2001). Interleukin-18 promotes sleep in rabbits and rats. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 281(3 50-3). https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.2001.281.3.r828

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