Journal
BRAIN
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages 3343-3360Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awy276
Keywords
epilepsy; microglia; seizure; neuronal loss; cytokine
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- European Research Council [322721 ERC]
- ERAnet Neuron [ANR-12-NEUR-0002-03]
- Investissements d'Avenir [ANR-10-IAIHU-06, ANR-10-INBS-09]
- NeurATRIS [ANR-11-INBS-0011]
- France Genomique infrastructure program
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Microglia, the immune cells of the brain, are highly plastic and possess multiple functional phenotypes. Differences in phenotype in different regions and different states of epileptic human brain have been little studied. Here we use transcriptomics, anatomy, imaging of living cells and ELISA measurements of cytokine release to examine microglia from patients with temporal lobe epilepsies. Two distinct microglial phenotypes were explored. First we asked how microglial phenotype differs between regions of high and low neuronal loss in the same brain. Second, we asked how microglial phenotype is changed by a recent seizure. In sclerotic areas with few neurons, microglia have an amoeboid rather than ramified shape, express activation markers and respond faster to purinergic stimuli. The repairing interleukin, IL-10, regulates the basal phenotype of microglia in the CA1 and CA3 regions with neuronal loss and gliosis. To understand changes in phenotype induced by a seizure, we estimated the delay from the last seizure until tissue collection from changes in reads for immediate early gene transcripts. Pseudotime ordering of these data was validated by comparison with results from kainate-treated mice. It revealed a local and transient phenotype in which microglia secrete the human interleukin CXCL8, IL-1B and other cytokines. This secretory response is mediated in part via the NRLP3 inflammasome.
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