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NEURON
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 94-106Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.11.032
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- Clayton Medical Research Foundation [NS-21182]
- National Institutes of Health [NS10695, DK064086]
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
- CIBERsam
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Cytokines produced during infection/inflammation activate adaptive central nervous system (CNS) Tesponses, including acute stress responses mediated by the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The mechanisms by which cytokines engage HPA control circuitry remain unclear, though stimulated release of prostanoids from neighboring vascular cells has been implicated in this regard. How specific vascular cell types, endothelial cells (ECs) versus perivascular cells (PVCs; a subset of brain-resident macrophages), participate in this response remains unsettled. We exploited the phagocytic activity of PVCs to deplete them in rats by central injection of a liposome-encapsulated proapoptotic drug. This manipulation abrogated CNS and hormonal indices of HPA activation under immune challenge conditions (interieukin-1) that activated prostanoid synthesis only in PVCs, while enhancing these responses to stimuli (lipopolysaccharide) that engaged prostanoid production by ECs as well. Thus, PVCs provide both prostanoid-mediated drive to the HPA axis and an anti-inflammatory action that constrains endothelial and overall CNS responses to inflammatory insults.
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