Behavioral Sciences (Feb 2018)

Follow-Up of Peripheral IL-1β and IL-6 and Relation with Apoptotic Death in Drug-Resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients Submitted to Surgery

  • Lourdes Lorigados Pedre,
  • Lilia M. Morales Chacón,
  • Nancy Pavón Fuentes,
  • María de los A. Robinson Agramonte,
  • Teresa Serrano Sánchez,
  • Rachel M. Cruz-Xenes,
  • Mei-Li Díaz Hung,
  • Bárbara Estupiñán Díaz,
  • Margarita M. Báez Martín,
  • Sandra Orozco-Suárez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/bs8020021
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
p. 21

Abstract

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Increasing amounts of evidence support the role of inflammation in epilepsy. This study was done to evaluate serum follow-up of IL-1β and IL-6 levels, as well as their concentration in the neocortex, and the relationship of central inflammation with NF-κB and annexin V in drug-resistant temporal lobe epileptic (DRTLE) patients submitted to surgical treatment. Peripheral and central levels of IL-1β and IL-6were measured by ELISA in 10 DRTLE patients. The sera from patients were taken before surgery, and 12 and 24 months after surgical treatment. The neocortical expression of NF-κB was evaluated by western blotting and annexin V co-localization with synaptophysin by immunohistochemistry. The neocortical tissues from five patients who died by non-neurological causes were used as control. Decreased serum levels of IL-1 and IL-6 were observed after surgery; at this time, 70% of patients were seizure-free. No values of IL-1 and IL-6 were detected in neocortical control tissue, whereas cytokine levels were evidenced in DRTLE. Increased NF-κB neocortex expression was found and the positive annexin V neurons were more obvious in the DRTLE tissue, correlating with IL-6 levels. The follow-up study confirmed that the inflammatory alterations disappeared one year after surgery, when the majority of patients were seizure-free, and the apoptotic death process correlated with inflammation.

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