Department of Pediatrics, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. p.j.zwijnenburg@amc.uva.nl
Abstract:
Intracisternal injection of the CXC-chemokines KC or macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-2 induced a pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of rats in a dose dependent way. MIP-2 was much more potent than KC. The concurrent injection of both chemokines revealed a profound synergistic effect on leukocyte recruitment into CSF.