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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 12, Pages 8288-8297Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.12.8288
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- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
- Canadian Institute for Health Research
- Neuroinflammation Training Award
- Fonds de la Recherche en Sante do Quebec
- Donald Paty Career Scientist Award of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
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Microglia are resident cells of the CNS that belong to the myeloid cell lineage. In experimental models of neuroinflammation, they have limited capacity to function as APCs when compared with dendritic cells (DCs). Human peripheral blood monocytes have the plasticity to differentiate into mature DCs when exposed to GM-CSF and IL-4 followed by LPS. In this study we addressed the potential of human microglia to acquire phenotypic and functional properties of mature DCs under similar inducing conditions. Treated adult and fetal microglia became CD14(low) and acquired limited expression of CD209 (DC-SIGN); they remained CD1a(-) and CD83(-), and decreased MHCII expression, suggesting that they had not achieved a complete DC phenotype. The monocyte-derived DCs efficiently promoted CD4 T cell proliferation in an allogeneic MLR, whereas differentiated adult microglia had a decreased ability to stimulate CD4 T cell proliferation compared with their untreated counterparts. Differentiated fetal microglia did support CD4 T cell proliferation, whereas untreated cells could not. Fetal and adult microglia produced significant amounts of IL-10 following differentiation but no detectable IL-12 p70, in contrast to differentiated monocytes that produced IL-12 p70. Our data indicate that neither adult nor fetal microglia acquired the full characteristic phenotype of mature stimulatory DCs when treated with DC-inducing cytokines in vitro. Moreover, such treatment, especially of adult microglia, induces functional responses that could promote an antiinflammatory environment in the CNS. The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181: 8288-8297.
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