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Temporal Contribution of Myeloid-Lineage TLR4 to the Transition to Chronic Pain: A Focus on Sex Differences

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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 19, 页码 4349-4365

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SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1940-20.2021

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CRPS; microglia; myeloid; pain; sex differences; TLR4

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  1. National Institutes of Health [K08NS094547, R01NS094438]
  2. Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Mentored Research Training Grant
  3. Rita Allen Foundation
  4. Veterans Affairs Merit Review [I01 RX001475]

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The expression of TLR4 in myeloid-lineage cells, astrocytes, and neurons plays a role in the transition from acute to chronic pain, with systemic TLR4 antagonism showing improvement in chronic CRPS when administered early. Additionally, the contribution of TLR4 to chronic pain is time- and microglia-dependent in both sexes, with females also relying on peripheral myeloid-lineage cells for triggering chronic pain.
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain disorder with a clear acute-to-chronic transition. Preclinical studies demonstrate that toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), expressed by myeloid-lineage cells, astrocytes, and neurons, mediates a sex dependent transition to chronic pain; however, evidence is lacking on which exact TLR4-expressing cells are responsible. We used complementary pharmacologic and transgenic approaches in mice to more specifically manipulate myeloid-lineage TLR4 and outline its contribution to the transition from acute-to-chronic CRPS based on three key variables: location (peripheral vs central), timing (prevention vs treatment), and sex (male vs female). We demonstrate that systemic TLR4 antagonism is more effective at improving chronic allodynia trajectory when administered at the time of injury (early) in the tibial fracture model of CRPS in both sexes. In order to clarify the contribution of myeloid-lineage cells peripherally (macrophages) or centrally (microglia), we rigorously characterize a novel spatiotemporal transgenic mouse line, Cx3CR1-Cre(ERT2-eYFP);TLR4(fl/fl) (TLR4 cKO) to specifically knock out TLR4 only in microglia and no other myeloid-lineage cells. Using this transgenic mouse, we find that early TLR4 cKO results in profound improvement in chronic, but not acute, allodynia in males, with a significant but less robust effect in females. In contrast, late TLR4 cKO results in partial improvement in allodynia in both sexes, suggesting that downstream cellular or molecular TLR4-independent events may have already been triggered. Overall, we find that the contribution of TLR4 is time-and microglia-dependent in both sexes; however, females also rely on peripheral myeloid-lineage (or other TLR4 expressing) cells to trigger chronic pain.

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