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Clinical assessment of blood leukocytes, serum cytokines, and serum immunoglobulins as responses to sleep deprivation in laboratory rats

Everson, Carol A.·2005·American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Abstract

The specific systems and mechanisms affected by sleep deprivation that may perpetuate disease processes in humans still are speculative. In laboratory rats, prolonged sleep deprivation induces a state marked by abnormal control over indigenous bacteria that results in transient infections of internal tissues and eventual lethal septicemia. The present studies investigated changes in blood, serum, and bone marrow parameters that may provide diagnostic clues to immunopathology. Prolonged sleep deprivation was produced in rats by the disk-over-water method, a well-established and selective means that does not interfere with normal waking behaviors. Measurements included bone and blood differential white blood cell counts, multiple serum cytokines and chemokines, several major Ig classes and subclasses, and serum endotoxin concentrations. The results indicated mild, regenerative neutrophilia in sleep-deprived rats, initially accompanied by immature neutrophils and later by monocytosis. The corresponding serum cytokine profile revealed an evolving proinflammatory state, particularly by high incidence of interleukin-1β, implicating mononuclear phagocytes and resident tissue cells as main intermediary sources. In addition, multiple serum Ig classes were increased by sleep deprivation without experimental administration of an exogenous antigen. Despite this immune activation, there was failure to eradicate invading bacteria and toxins, suggesting competing anti-inflammatory processes or interference with immune effector functions during sleep deprivation. Nearly all of the immune-related events that emerged as responses to sleep deprivation have been implicated as etiological or provocative factors in other disease processes and may provide means by which sleep deprivation as a risk factor in disease may become understood.

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Authors
Everson, C. A.
Affiliations
Medical College of Wisconsin (US)
Corresponding author
Everson, Carol A.
Venue
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Published
2005-10
Volume
289
Issue
4
Pages
R1054-R1063
ISSN
  • 0363-6119 (ISSN-L)
  • 1522-1490
OpenAlex
W2109852871
Cited by
141
References
74
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01ns038733-03, 7r29hl059271-04)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL59271)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-38733)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Keywords
sleep deprivation, differential leukocyte count, serum cytokines, serum immunoglobulins, IL-1β, neutrophilia, monocytosis, endotoxin, septicemia, bone marrow, chemokines, immune activation
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Physiological, Animals, Endotoxins, Immunoglobulins, Leukocyte Count, Male, Sleep Deprivation, Cytokines, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Rats

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