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Inactivation of Gas6/Axl signaling aggravated Microglia-Astrocyte cross regulation after spinal cord injury

ABSTRACT: Aggressive inflammation and excessive scar formation are the main cause to the difficulty of neural tissue repair after spinal cord injury (SCI). Microglia and astrocytes act as important role in this micro-environment of SCI and there is cross regulation between microglia and astrocytes. After SCI, MG0 polarized into MG1 and MG3 which were belong to pro-inflammatory phenotype microglia; Naive astrocytes polarized into Reactive and Scar-forming astrocytes. Growth arrest-specific 6 (Gas6) and its receptor Axl was declined in all these cells after SCI. In vitro study, Gas6 had the negative effect on cytotoxic astrocytes and pro-inflammatory microglia polarization and even the cross regulation between cytotoxic astrocytes and pro-inflammatory microglia. Further mechanism study indicated that Gas6 suppressed cytotoxic phenotype polarization of astrocytes through inhibited the activation of YES-associated protein (YAP) signal pathway and suppressed pro-inflammatory phenotype polarization of microglia through inhibited the activation of NF-κB/p65 and JAK/Stat3 signal pathways. In vivo study, Gas6 treatment suppressed cytotoxic astrocytes and pro-inflammatory microglia polarization at the injured site of spinal cord to facilitate tissue repair and loco-motor recovery.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE245470 | GEO | 2023/10/21

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The inflammatory response after spinal cord injury (SCI) is an important contributor to secondary damage. Infiltrating macrophages can acquire a spectrum of activation states, however, the microenvironment at the SCI site favors macrophage polarization into a pro-inflammatory phenotype, which is one of the reasons why macrophage transplantation has failed. In this study, we investigated the therapeutic potential of the macrophage secretome for SCI recovery. We investigated the effect of the secretome in vitro using peripheral and CNS-derived neurons and human neural stem cells. Moreover, we perform a pre-clinical trial using a SCI compression mice model and analyzed the recovery of motor, sensory and autonomic functions. Instead of transplanting the cells, we injected the paracrine factors and extracellular vesicles that they secrete, avoiding the loss of the phenotype of the transplanted cells due to local environmental cues. We demonstrated that different macrophage phenotypes have a distinct effect on neuronal growth and survival, namely, the alternative activation with IL-10 and TGF-β1 (M(IL-10+TGF-β1)) promotes significant axonal regeneration. We also observed that systemic injection of soluble factors and extracellular vesicles derived from M(IL-10+TGF-β1) macrophages promotes significant functional recovery after compressive SCI and leads to higher survival of spinal cord neurons. Additionally, the M(IL-10+TGF-β1) secretome supported the recovery of bladder function and decreased microglial activation, astrogliosis and fibrotic scar in the spinal cord. Proteomic analysis of the M(IL-10+TGF-β1)-derived secretome identified clusters of proteins involved in axon extension, dendritic spine maintenance, cell polarity establishment, and regulation of astrocytic activation. Overall, our results demonstrated that macrophages-derived soluble factors and extracellular vesicles might be a promising therapy for SCI with possible clinical applications.

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Inactivation of Gas6/Axl signaling aggravated Microglia-Astrocyte cross regulation after spinal cord injury

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