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Interferon-alpha causes neuronal dysfunction in encephalitis.


ABSTRACT: Interferon-alpha (IFNalpha) is a pleomorphic cytokine produced by nucleated cells in response to viral infection. In patients, treatment with IFNalpha has side effects including cognitive impairment resembling subcortical dementia, which is a hallmark of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated dementia (HAD). IFNalpha is increased in the CSF of HAD patients compared with HIV patients without dementia. In this study, blocking IFNalpha in a HIV encephalitis (HIVE) mouse model with intraperitoneal injections of IFNalpha neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) significantly improved cognitive function compared with untreated or control antibody-treated HIVE mice during water radial arm maze behavioral testing. Treatment with IFNalpha NAbs significantly decreased microgliosis and prevented loss of dendritic arborization in the brains of HIVE mice. Furthermore, treatment of primary neuron cultures with IFNalpha resulted in dose-dependent loss of dendritic arborization that was blocked with IFNalpha NAb treatment and partially blocked with NMDA antagonists [AP5 and MK801 (dizocilpine maleate)] indicating glutamate signaling is involved in IFNalpha-mediated neuronal damage. These results show that IFNalpha has a major role in the pathogenesis of HIVE in mice and is likely important in the development neurocognitive dysfunction in humans with HIV. Blocking IFNalpha could be important in improving cognitive and pathological developments in HAD patients and may be clinically important in other neuroinflammatory diseases as well.

SUBMITTER: Sas AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3598587 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interferon-alpha causes neuronal dysfunction in encephalitis.

Sas Andrew R AR   Bimonte-Nelson Heather H   Smothers C Thetford CT   Woodward John J   Tyor William R WR  

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20090301 12


Interferon-alpha (IFNalpha) is a pleomorphic cytokine produced by nucleated cells in response to viral infection. In patients, treatment with IFNalpha has side effects including cognitive impairment resembling subcortical dementia, which is a hallmark of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated dementia (HAD). IFNalpha is increased in the CSF of HAD patients compared with HIV patients without dementia. In this study, blocking IFNalpha in a HIV encephalitis (HIVE) mouse model with intraperit  ...[more]

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