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Norepinephrine stimulates growth of Escherichia coli, Yersinia enter ocolitica, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in serum-supplemented media, and in vivo increases in norepinephrine may be important in the pathogenesis of sepsis by gram-negative bacteria. Because salmonellosis often is associated with stress, the effects of norepinephrine on in vitro growth, and in vivo pathogenicity of the swine pathogen Salmonella choler-aesuis were investigated. When RPMI1640 with and without pig serum was inoculated with fewer than 100 S. choleraesuislml and incubated overnight, bacterial numbers were 104 to 106 lower in RPMI containing serum. Norepinephrine restored bacterial growth in RPMI with serum to normal levels, but it did not increase growth in serum-free RPMI. Similar results were obtained with SAPI, a nutrient-poor medium previously used to study the effect of norepinephrine on growth of gram-negative bacteria. Conditioned media were produced by growing S. choleraesuis in RPMI containing serum with and without norepinephrine and filter sterilizing. Conditioned medium produced with norepinephrine stimulated growth of S. choleraesuis but not E. coli, whereas conditioned medium produced without norepinephrine stimulated growth of both bacteria. To determine the in vivo effects of norepinephrine, rats were implanted with tablets that secrete norepinephrine for 20 to 24 hours or with identical tablets without norepinephrine and infected intraperitoneally with graded doses of S. choleraesuis. The LD-50 of S. choleraesuis was the same in both groups, and norepinephrine did not affect the carrier rate at 30 days after infection. We concluded that although norepinephrine stimulates in vitro growth of S. choleraesuis in serum-based media, the increase in norepinephrine levels in the present in vivo system was probably not sufficient to influence the pathogenesis of 5. choleraesuis infection.
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Nietfeld, J.C., Yeary, T.J., Basaraba, R.J., Schauenstein, K. (1999). Norepinephrine Stimulates in Vitro Growth but does not Increase Pathogenicity of Salmonella Choleraesuis in an in Vivo Model. In: Paul, P.S., Francis, D.H. (eds) Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 473. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4143-1_27
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