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NEUROLOGY-NEUROIMMUNOLOGY & NEUROINFLAMMATION
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000311
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- Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation
- NIH [K24NS51400, R21NS78420, P50NS38667, 1]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [JP16K19513]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K19513] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Objective: To address the hypothesis that physiologic interactions between astrocytes and endothelial cells (EC) at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) are afflicted by pathogenic inflammatory signaling when astrocytes are exposed to aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibodies present in the immunoglobulin G (IgG) fraction of serum from patients with neuromyelitis optica (NMO), referred to as NMO-IgG. Methods: We established static and flow-based in vitro BBB models incorporating co-cultures of conditionally immortalized human brain microvascular endothelial cells and human astrocyte cell lines with or without AQP4 expression. Results: In astrocyte-EC co-cultures, exposure of astrocytes to NMO-IgG decreased barrier function, induced CCL2 and CXCL8 expression by EC, and promoted leukocyte migration under flow, contingent on astrocyte expression of AQP4. NMO-IgG selectively induced interleukin (IL)-6 production by AQP4-positive astrocytes. When EC were exposed to IL-6, we observed decreased barrier function, increased CCL2 and CXCL8 expression, and enhanced leukocyte transmigration under flow. These effects were reversed after application of IL-6 neutralizing antibody. Conclusions: Our results indicate that NMO-IgG induces IL-6 production by AQP4-positive astrocytes and that IL-6 signaling to EC decreases barrier function, increases chemokine production, and enhances leukocyte transmigration under flow.
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