Figure 3
From: Chronic ethanol increases systemic TLR3 agonist-induced neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Effect of chronic ethanol treatment on poly I:C-induced blood and brain IL-6 and MCP-1. As described in the methods, male C57BL/6 mice were treated intragastrically with ethanol (5 g/kg, i.g. daily for 10 days) and 24 hours after the last dose of ethanol treatment injected intraperitoneally with poly I:C (250 μg/kg) plus D-GalN (20 mg/kg). Brains were collected three hours after poly I:C injection for all groups, that is, ethanol alone is 27 hours after the last dose of ethanol. (A) Ethanol or poly I:C alone treatment increased serum IL-6 protein and brain IL-6 mRNA and protein. Sequential ethanol-poly I:C treatment significantly augmented the blood and brain levels of IL-6. (B) Ethanol or poly I:C alone treatment increased serum MCP-1 protein and brain MCP-1 mRNA and protein. Ethanol pretreatment potentiated poly I:C-induced serum MCP-1 protein and brain MCP-1 gene expression and protein synthesis. The results are the means ± SEM in two independent experiments with seven animals per group. *P <0.05, **P <0.01, compared with the vehicle control group. # P <0.05, compared with the corresponding poly I:C treated group.