PMID- 28126500 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180829 LR - 20190329 IS - 1090-2139 (Electronic) IS - 0889-1591 (Print) IS - 0889-1591 (Linking) VI - 62 DP - 2017 May TI - Systemic inflammation and resting state connectivity of the default mode network. PG - 162-170 LID - S0889-1591(17)30014-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.01.013 [doi] AB - The default mode network (DMN) encompasses brain systems that exhibit coherent neural activity at rest. DMN brain systems have been implicated in diverse social, cognitive, and affective processes, as well as risk for forms of dementia and psychiatric disorders that associate with systemic inflammation. Areas of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and surrounding medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) within the DMN have been implicated specifically in regulating autonomic and neuroendocrine processes that relate to systemic inflammation via bidirectional signaling mechanisms. However, it is still unclear whether indicators of inflammation relate directly to coherent resting state activity of the ACC, mPFC, or other areas within the DMN. Accordingly, we tested whether plasma interleukin (IL)-6, an indicator of systemic inflammation, covaried with resting-state functional connectivity of the DMN among 98 adults aged 30-54 (39% male; 81% Caucasian). Independent component analyses were applied to resting state fMRI data to generate DMN connectivity maps. Voxel-wise regression analyses were then used to test for associations between IL-6 and DMN connectivity across individuals, controlling for age, sex, body mass index, and fMRI signal motion. Within the DMN, IL-6 covaried positively with connectivity of the sub-genual ACC and negatively with a region of the dorsal medial PFC at corrected statistical thresholds. These novel findings offer evidence for a unique association between a marker of systemic inflammation (IL-6) and ACC and mPFC functional connectivity within the DMN, a network that may be important for linking aspects of immune function to psychological and behavioral states in health and disease. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Marsland, Anna L AU - Marsland AL AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States. Electronic address: marsland@pitt.edu. FAU - Kuan, Dora C-H AU - Kuan DC AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States. FAU - Sheu, Lei K AU - Sheu LK AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States. FAU - Krajina, Katarina AU - Krajina K AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States. FAU - Kraynak, Thomas E AU - Kraynak TE AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States. FAU - Manuck, Stephen B AU - Manuck SB AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States. FAU - Gianaros, Peter J AU - Gianaros PJ AD - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States. LA - eng GR - P01 HL040962/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL089850/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 HL007560/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170123 PL - Netherlands TA - Brain Behav Immun JT - Brain, behavior, and immunity JID - 8800478 RN - 0 (Interleukin-6) RN - 9007-41-4 (C-Reactive Protein) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Brain/*diagnostic imaging/physiopathology MH - Brain Mapping MH - C-Reactive Protein/metabolism MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Inflammation/blood/*diagnostic imaging/physiopathology MH - Interleukin-6/blood MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Nerve Net/*diagnostic imaging/physiopathology PMC - PMC5402695 MID - NIHMS851897 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Anterior cingulate cortex OT - CRP OT - Default mode network OT - IL-6 OT - Inflammation OT - Prefrontal cortex OT - Resting state connectivity COIS- Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2017/01/28 06:00 MHDA- 2018/08/30 06:00 PMCR- 2018/05/01 CRDT- 2017/01/28 06:00 PHST- 2016/06/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/01/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/01/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/01/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/08/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/01/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0889-1591(17)30014-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.01.013 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Behav Immun. 2017 May;62:162-170. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.01.013. Epub 2017 Jan 23.