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    CD200R/Foxp3-mediated signalling regulates microglial activation
    (Nature Portfolio, 2016) Yi, Min-Hee; Zhang, Enji; Kim, Jwa-Jin; Baek, Hyunjung; Shin, Nara; Kim, Sena; Kim, Sang Ryong; Kim, Hang-Rae; Lee, Sung Joong; Park, Jin Bong; Kim, Yonghyun; Kwon, O-Yu; Lee, Young Ho; Oh, Sang-Ha; Kim, Dong Woon; Chungnam National University; University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston; Yanbian University; Chungnam National University Hospital; Kyungpook National University; Seoul National University (SNU); University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    The heterogeneity of microglial functions have either beneficial or detrimental roles in specific physiological or pathological environments. However, the details of what transcriptional mechanisms induce microglia to take beneficial phenotypes remain unknown. Here, we report that Foxp3 is essential for beneficial outcome of the microglial response and depends upon signalling by the immunoglobulin CD200 through its receptor (CD200R). Foxp3 expression was up-regulated in microglia activated by excitotoxicity-induced hippocampal neuroinflammation. Suppression of CD200R prevented anti-inflammatory phenotype of microglia, but over-expression of Foxp3 enhanced it. Phosphorylation of STAT6, a downstream effector of CD200R, modulated transcription of Foxp3. Finally, CD200R/Foxp3-mediated signalling enhanced hippocampal neuronal viability and conferred a degree of neuroprotection, presumably by counteracting inducible nitric oxide synthase. We conclude that enhancement of Foxp3 through CD200R could be neuroprotective by targeting the microglia.
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    TLR4-mediated autophagic impairment contributes to neuropathic pain in chronic constriction injury mice
    (Biomed Central, 2018) Piao, Yibo; Gwon, Do Hyeong; Kang, Dong-Wook; Hwang, Tae Woong; Shin, Nara; Kwon, Hyeok Hee; Shin, Hyo Jung; Yin, Yuhua; Kim, Jwa-Jin; Hong, Jinpyo; Kim, Hyun-Woo; Kim, Yonghyun; Kim, Sang Ryong; Oh, Sang-Ha; Kim, Dong Woon; Chungnam National University; Chungnam National University Hospital; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; Kyungpook National University
    Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic pain state characterized by hyperalgesia, allodynia, and spontaneous pain. Accumulating evidence has indicated that the microglial Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and autophagy are implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, but their relationship and role in neuropathic pain remain unclear. In this study, we examined TLR4 and its association with autophagic activity using a chronic constriction injury (CCI)-induced neuropathic pain model in wild-type (WT) and TLR4-knockout (KO) mice. The mice were assigned into four groups: WT-Contralateral (Contra), WT-Ipsilateral (Ipsi), TLR4 KO-Contra, and TLR4 KO-Ipsi. Behavioral and mechanical allodynia tests and biochemical analysis of spinal cord tissue were conducted following CCI to the sciatic nerve. Compared with the Contra group, mechanical allodynia in both the WT-and TLR4 KO-Ipsi groups was significantly increased, and a marked decrease of allodynia was observed in the TLR4 KO-Ipsi group. Although glial cells were upregulated in the WT-Ipsi group, no significant change was observed in the TLR4 KO groups. Moreover, protein expression and immunoreactive cell regulation of autophagy (Beclin 1, p62) were significantly increased in the neurons, but not microglia, of WT-Ipsi group compared with the WT-Contra group. The level of PINK1, a marker for mitophagy was increased in the neurons of WT, but not in TLR4 KO mice. Together, these results show that TLR4-mediated p62 autophagic impairment plays an important role in the occurrence and development of neuropathic pain. And what is more, microglial TLR4-mediated microglial activation might be indirectly coupled to neuronal autophage.