期刊
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
卷 591, 期 -, 页码 13-18出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.02.004
关键词
sigma Receptor; Fluorescence microscopy; Microglia; Optical imaging
资金
- ERC starting grant
Microglial cells are responsible for clearing and maintaining the central nervous system (CNS) microenvironment. Upon brain damage, they move toward injuries to clear the area by engulfing dying neurons. However, in the context of many neurological disorders chronic microglial responses are responsible for neurodegeneration. Therefore, it is important to understand how these cells can be switched-off and regain their ramified state. Current research suggests that microglial inflammatory responses can be inhibited by sigma (sigma) receptor activation. Here, we take advantage of the optical transparency of the zebrafish embryo to study the role of sigma(1) receptor in microglia in an intact living brain. By combining chemical approaches with real time imaging we found that treatment with PB190, a sigma(1) agonist, blocks microglial migration toward injuries leaving cellular baseline motility and the engulfment of apoptotic neurons unaffected. Most importantly, by taking a reverse genetic approach, we discovered that the role of sigma(1) in vivo is to switch-off microglia after they responded to an injury allowing for these cells to leave the site of damage. This indicates that pharmacological manipulation of sigma(1) receptor modulates microglial responses providing new approaches to reduce the devastating impact that microglia have in neurodegenerative diseases. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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