GENETICALLY-MODIFIED MACROPHAGES ACCELERATE MYELIN REPAIR

ABSTRACT: Preventing neurodegeneration-associated disability progression in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) remains an unmet therapeutic need. As remyelination prevents axonal degeneration, promoting this process in patients might enhance neuroprotection. In demyelinating mouse lesions, local overexpression of Semaphorin 3F (Sema3F), an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) attractant, increases remyelination. However, molecular targeting to MS lesions is a challenge. A clinically-relevant paradigm of delivering Sema3F to demyelinating lesions could be to use blood-derived macrophages as vehicles. Thus, we chose transplantation of genetically-modified hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) as means of obtaining chimeric mice with circulating Sema3F-overexpressing monocytes. We demonstrated that Sema

SUBMITTER: Ms. Marie-Stephane Aigrot 

PROVIDER: S-SCDT-EMM-2021-14759 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other