ArticleGlia2014
Microglia-induced IL-6 protects against neuronal loss following HSV-1 infection of neural progenitor cells.
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- Crosstalk between skeletal muscle and the brain during physical activity - in search of epigenetic mechanisms.Epigenetics · 2025Review
- Chronic Neuroplasticity Changes Following Neurotropic Viral Infection: Mechanisms and Implications.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Downregulation of STAT3 transcription factor reverses synaptotoxic phenotype of reactive astrocytes associated with prion diseases.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2025Article
- Intracranial Aneurysm Biomarkers: A Convergence of Genetics, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and the Extracellular Matrix.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients After Craniotomy with the Appearance of Interleukin-6 Storm Can Activate Microglia to Damage the Hypothalamic Neurons in Mice.Molecular neurobiology · 2024Article
- RNA-Seq time-course analysis of neural precursor cell transcriptome in response to herpes simplex Virus-1 infection.Journal of neurovirology · 2024Article
- Regulation of Onecut2 by miR-9-5p in Japanese encephalitis virus infected neural stem/progenitor cells.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
- Interleukin-6 in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Janus-Faced Player in Damage and Repair.Journal of neurotrauma · 2023Review
- Astrocytes in human central nervous system diseases: a frontier for new therapies.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Review
- Cerebral Aneurysm and Interleukin-6: a Key Player in Aneurysm Generation and Rupture or Just One of the Multiple Factors?Translational stroke research · 2023Review
- Contemplating IL-6, a double-edged sword cytokine: Which side to use for stroke pathology?CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2023Review
- The Adult Neurogenesis Theory of Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- Bystander activation of microglia byFrontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Variations in Aspects of Neural Precursor Cell Neurogenesis in a Human Model of HSV-1 Infection.Organogenesis · 2022Article
- Nicotinamide n-Oxide Attenuates HSV-1-Induced Microglial Inflammation through Sirtuin-1/NF-κB Signaling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Molecular Mimicry Analyses Unveiled the Human Herpes Simplex and Poxvirus Epitopes as Possible Candidates to Incite Autoimmunity.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Herpes virus type 1 (HSV-1) is one of the most widespread human pathogens and accounts for more than 90% of cases of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) causing severe and permanent neurologic sequelae among surviving patients. We hypothesize such CNS deficits are due to HSV-1 infection of neural progenitor cells (NPCs). In vivo, HSV-1 infection was found to diminish NPC numbers in the subventricular zone. Upon culture of NPCs in conditions that stimulate their differentiation, we found HSV-1 infection of NPCs resulted in the loss of neuronal precursors with no significant change in the percentage of astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. We propose this is due a direct effect of HSV-1 on neuronal survival without alteration of the differentiation process. The neuronal loss was prevented by the addition of microglia or conditioned media from NPC/microglia co-cultures. Using neutralizing antibodies and recombinant cytokines, we identified interleukin-6 (IL-6) as responsible for the protective effect by microglia, likely through its downstream Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) cascade.
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