ArticleAnnals of the rheumatic diseases2023
Microglia activation in the presence of intact blood-brain barrier and disruption of hippocampal neurogenesis via IL-6 and IL-18 mediate early diffuse neuropsychiatric lupus.
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Abstract
introductionInflammatory mediators are detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of systemic lupus erythematosus patients with central nervous system involvement (NPSLE), yet the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms leading to neuropsychiatric disease remain elusive.
methodsWe performed a comprehensive phenotyping of NZB/W-F1 lupus-prone mice including tests for depression, anxiety and cognition. Immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, RNA-sequencing, qPCR, cytokine quantification and blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability assays were applied in hippocampal tissue obtained in both prenephritic (3-month-old) and nephritic (6-month-old) lupus mice and matched control strains. Healthy adult hippocampal neural stem cells (hiNSCs) were exposed
resultsAt the prenephritic stage, BBB is intact yet mice exhibit hippocampus-related behavioural deficits recapitulating the human diffuse neuropsychiatric disease. This phenotype is accounted by disrupted hippocampal neurogenesis with hiNSCs exhibiting increased proliferation combined with decreased differentiation and increased apoptosis in combination with microglia activation and increased secretion of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Among these cytokines, IL-6 and IL-18 directly induce apoptosis of adult hiNSCs ex vivo. During the nephritic stage, BBB becomes disrupted which facilitates immune components of peripheral blood, particularly B-cells, to penetrate into the hippocampus further augmenting inflammation with locally increased levels of IL-6, IL-12, IL-18 and IL-23. Of note, an interferon gene signature was observed only at nephritic-stage.
conclusionAn intact BBB with microglial activation disrupting the formation of new neurons within the hippocampus represent early events in NPSLE. Disturbances of the BBB and interferon signature are evident later in the course of the disease.
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