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Hedgehog dysregulation contributes to tissue-specific inflammaging of resident macrophages

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AGING-US
卷 13, 期 15, 页码 19207-19229

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IMPACT JOURNALS LLC

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tissue-resident macrophages; inflammation; inflammaging; transcriptomics; aging

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  1. NIA Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health

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The study reveals that tissue-resident macrophages undergo specific and significant transcriptional changes with age across different organs and sexes, primarily involving important innate immune functions such as antigen presentation, cytokine production, and cell adhesion. The hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway may play a crucial role in aging, as in vivo suppression or in vitro activation of this pathway can affect the expression of proinflammatory cytokines. These findings suggest that targeting the Hh signaling pathway could be a potential intervention to mitigate age-associated inflammation and related diseases.
Age-associated low-grade sterile inflammation, commonly referred to as inflammaging, is a recognized hallmark of aging, which contributes to many age-related diseases. While tissue-resident macrophages are innate immune cells that secrete many types of inflammatory cytokines in response to various stimuli, it is not clear whether they have a role in driving inflammaging. Here we characterized the transcriptional changes associated with physiological aging in mouse resident macrophage populations across different tissues and sexes. Although the age-related transcriptomic signatures of resident macrophages were strikingly tissuespecific, the differentially expressed genes were collectively enriched for those with important innate immune functions such as antigen presentation, cytokine production, and cell adhesion. The brain-resident microglia had the most wide-ranging age-related alterations, with compromised expression of tissue-specific genes and relatively exaggerated responses to endotoxin stimulation. Despite the tissue-specific patterns of aging transcriptomes, components of the hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway were decreased in aged macrophages across multiple tissues. In vivo suppression of Hh signaling in young animals increased the expression of proinflammatory cytokines, while in vitro activation of Hh signaling in old macrophages, in turn, suppressed the expression of these inflammatory cytokines. This suggests that hedgehog signaling could be a potential intervention axis for mitigating age-associated inflammation and related diseases. Overall, our data represent a resourceful catalog of tissue-specific and sex-specific transcriptomic changes in resident macrophages of peritoneum, liver, and brain, during physiological aging.

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