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J Appl Physiol 42: 355-361, 1977;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 42, Issue 3 355-361, Copyright © 1977 by American Physiological Society

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Comparison of endotoxin and leukocytic pyrogen pyrogenicity in newborn guinea pigs

C. M. Blatteis

Guinea pigs under 8 days of age generally are unable to develop fever (viz., deltaTre greater than 0.5 degrees C) in response to a standardized dose of endotoxin (2 mug/kg iv of Salmonella enteritidis [SE]). This study was undertaken to determine whether this lack of responsiveness might be due to an incapacity of leukocytes from young neonates to produce sufficient leukocytic pyrogen (LP). Three series of experiments were performed at Ta = 27 degrees C: guinea pigs aged 0-2, 4, and 8 days were injected iv with: a) 2, 4, 8, or 16 mug/kg of SE, b) 0.1, 0.5, or 1.0 ml of LP generated by 8 mug of SE/25 X 10(6) leukocytes from adult guinea pigs (LPa), or c) 0.1 or 1.0 ml of LP generated by 8 mug of SE/25 X 10(6) leukocytes from 0-5-, 6-12-, and 13-16-day-old guinea pigs (LPn). Adult guinea pigs received iv 1.0 ml of LPa or LPn. The results revealed that fever could be induced in these animals from birth, but the required doses of SE, LPa and LPn were greater the younger the guinea pigs. Under these conditions, LPn, regardless of the donors' ages, produced fever in all the recipients. It is concluded that the pyrogenic unresponsiveness of newborn guinea pigs to endotoxin may be related not to an inability of leukocytes from these neonates to elaborate LP, but rather to an insensitivity of, presumably, their hypothalamic febrogenic mechanisms to low levels of LP.




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