Sustained Increases in Immune Transcripts and Immune Cell Trafficking During the Recovery of Experimental Brain Ischemia.
Sustained Increases in Immune Transcripts and Immune Cell Trafficking During the Recovery of Experimental Brain Ischemia.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.120.029440
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发表时间:
2020-08
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Cho S
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作者:
Fury W;Park KW;Wu Z;Kim E;Woo MS;Bai Y;Macdonald LE;Croll SD;Cho S
Stroke is a major cause of chronic neurological disability. There is considerable interest in understanding how acute transcriptome changes evolve into subacute and chronic patterns that facilitate or limit spontaneous recovery. Here we mapped longitudinal changes in gene expression at multiple time points after stroke in mice out to 6 months. Adult C57BL/6 mice were subjected to transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. Longitudinal transcriptome levels were measured at 10 time points after stroke from acute to recovery phases of ischemic stroke. Localization and the number of mononuclear phagocytes were determined in the post-ischemic brain. Whole mount brain imaging was performed in asplenic mice receiving GFP+-tagged splenocytes. Sustained stroke-induced mRNA abundance changes were observed in both hemispheres with 2989 ipsilateral and 822 contralateral genes significantly perturbed. In the hemisphere ipsilateral to the infarct, genes associated with immune functions were strongly affected, including temporally overlapping innate and adaptive immunity and macrophage M1 and M2 phenotype related-genes. The strong immune gene activation was accompanied by the sustained infiltration of peripheral immune cells at acute, subacute and recovery stages of stroke. The infiltrated immune cells were found in the infarcted area, but also in remote regions at 2 months after stroke. The study identifies that immune components are the predominant molecular signatures and they may propagate or continuously respond to brain injury in the subacute to chronic phase after CNS injury. The study suggests a potential immune-based strategy to modify injury progression and tissue remodeling in ischemic stroke, even months after the initiating event. The spatio-temporal relationship between immune gene expression and the presence of immune cells in the post-ischemic brain. M1 and M2 macrophage gene profiles showed sustained elevation of immune rassociated gene expression across different phases of stroke. Immune cell trafficking occurs mainly in the primary injury sites in the acute phase of stroke. The presence of immune cells during the chronic phase of stroke in remote areas, including the thalamus and substantia nigra (SN), shows an involvement of immunity in secondary injury.