Differential effects of albumin on microglia and macrophages; implications for neurodegeneration following blood-brain barrier damage
Differential effects of albumin on microglia and macrophages; implications for neurodegeneration following blood-brain barrier damage
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.05953.x
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发表时间:
2009-05-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Pocock, Jennifer M.
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作者:
Hooper, Claudie;Pinteaux-Jones, Fleur;Pocock, Jennifer M.
Microglial activation by blood-borne factors following blood-brain barrier damage may play a significant role in subsequent neuropathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. Exposure of primary cultured rat brain microglia to pure, fatty acid- and lipid-deficient rat serum albumin or fraction V, (fatty acid and lipid-containing rat serum albumin), caused inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression, glutamate release, tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and transforming growth factor-beta1 release. iNOS expression was attenuated by the MAPK/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway inhibitor U0126 and the phosphorylated forms of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 and 2 were detectable in microglia treated with albumin or fraction V. Glutamate release was prevented by l-alpha-aminoadipate and glutathione levels in microglia rose on exposure to albumin. Conditioned medium from microglia exposed to albumin or fraction V was neurotoxic. Peripheral macrophages were resistant to the effects of albumin but both microglia and macrophages responded to lipopolysaccharide, which induced interleukin-1 beta and tumour necrosis factor alpha release, cyclooxygenase-2 and iNOS expression in both cell types, indicating a discrete desensitised pathway in macrophages for albumin which was not desensitised in microglia. Thus, exposure of microglia in the brain to albumin may contribute to neuronal damage following blood-brain barrier breakdown and point to resident microglia rather than infiltrating macrophages as therapeutic targets.