Journal
THERANOSTICS
Volume 8, Issue 13, Pages 3530-3543Publisher
IVYSPRING INT PUBL
DOI: 10.7150/thno.24475
Keywords
CCR2; monocytes; functional recovery; ischemic stroke
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81673442]
- China Scholarship Council [201307060033]
- Qing Lan Project
- [R01NS06413606]
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Rationale: Peripheral blood monocytes are recruited into the ischemic brain and transform into macrophages after stroke. Nevertheless, the exact role of CCR2-dependent monocytes/ macrophages in brain injury after stroke remains elusive. Methods: We used CCR2 knockout (KO) mice and the CCR2 pharmacological inhibitor, propagermanium (PG), to address the role of CCR2-dependent monocytes/macrophages in the acute stage and neurological functional recovery after middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion and reperfusion. Results: CCR2 KO resulted in smaller infarct size and lower mortality than in wild type (WT) mice, when measured 3 days after stroke. However, from 5 to 28 days after stroke, the KO mice had higher mortality and showed no obvious neurological functional recovery. In addition, WT mice treated with PG had similar stroke outcomes compared with CCR2 KO, as measured by T2 weighted MRI. Flow cytometry and real-time PCR analyses suggest that monocyte-derived macrophages (MoDMs) in the stroke brains mainly polarized to pro-inflammatory macrophages at the early stage, but gradually switched to anti-inflammatory macrophages at 7 days after stroke. In addition, adoptive transfer of anti-inflammatory macrophages into CCR2 KO mice at 4 and 6 days after stroke alleviated mortality and promoted neurological recovery. Conclusion: CCR2-dependent monocytes/macrophages are a double-edged sword; they worsen acute brain injury, but are essential for neurological recovery by promoting anti-inflammatory macrophage polarization.
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