PMID- 12162874 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20030312 LR - 20081121 IS - 1079-9907 (Print) IS - 1079-9907 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 6 DP - 2002 Jun TI - Herpes simplex virus type 1 infection induces upregulation of interleukin-23 (p19) mRNA expression in trigeminal ganglia of BALB/c mice. PG - 641-51 AB - We investigated the expression kinetics of several cytokines in trigeminal ganglia (TG) and in brains of BALB/c mice during the course of ocular herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection. All mice recovered from the infection within 2 weeks. The quantitative rapid real-time RT-PCR method was used to analyze interleukin-4 (IL-4), interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), IL-12p35, IL-12p40, and the recently described IL-23 (p19) mRNA in TG, brain, and splenocyte samples. In TG, we found elevated expression of mRNA for IL-23 (p19) from early acute infection (day 3) to the beginning of the latent phase (day 14). The increase was not detected in brain or in the spleen. IL-4 expression occurred in both TG and brain from the beginning of the experiment to the latent phase. During the latent phase (days 14 and 31), IL-4 expression was significantly elevated in the brain when compared with the uninfected controls (p < 0.05). Considerable expression of IFN-gamma mRNA was detected in TG of mice during acute HSV-1 infection. The expression of IL-23 was detected also in the brains of the mice, even though no significant changes were found during the acute HSV-1 infection. This is, to our knowledge, the first report to show elevated expression of IL-23 (p19) mRNA (p < 0.05) during viral infection in TG of mice. FAU - Broberg, Eeva K AU - Broberg EK AD - Department of Virology, the MediCity Research Laboratory, and the Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Turku, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland. eeva.broberg@utu.fi FAU - Setala, Niko AU - Setala N FAU - Eralinna, Juha-Pekka AU - Eralinna JP FAU - Salmi, Aimo A AU - Salmi AA FAU - Roytta, Matias AU - Roytta M FAU - Hukkanen, Veijo AU - Hukkanen V LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Interferon Cytokine Res JT - Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research JID - 9507088 RN - 0 (Il23a protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Interleukin-12 Subunit p35) RN - 0 (Interleukin-12 Subunit p40) RN - 0 (Interleukin-23) RN - 0 (Interleukin-23 Subunit p19) RN - 0 (Interleukins) RN - 0 (Protein Subunits) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 187348-17-0 (Interleukin-12) RN - 207137-56-2 (Interleukin-4) RN - 82115-62-6 (Interferon-gamma) SB - IM MH - Acute Disease MH - Animals MH - Brain/metabolism/virology MH - Chick Embryo MH - Eye/metabolism/virology MH - Female MH - Herpes Simplex/genetics/*metabolism MH - Interferon-gamma/metabolism MH - Interleukin-12/metabolism MH - Interleukin-12 Subunit p35 MH - Interleukin-12 Subunit p40 MH - Interleukin-23 MH - Interleukin-23 Subunit p19 MH - Interleukin-4/metabolism MH - Interleukins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Protein Subunits/metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/metabolism MH - Trigeminal Ganglion/*metabolism/virology MH - *Up-Regulation EDAT- 2002/08/07 10:00 MHDA- 2003/03/13 04:00 CRDT- 2002/08/07 10:00 PHST- 2002/08/07 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/03/13 04:00 [medline] PHST- 2002/08/07 10:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1089/10799900260100123 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2002 Jun;22(6):641-51. doi: 10.1089/10799900260100123.