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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2017

P2X7 Receptor Activation Modulates Autophagy in SOD1-G93A Mouse Microglia.

Paola Fabbrizio, Susanna Amadio, Savina Apolloni, Cinzia Volonté

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Paola FabbrizioIRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Experimental NeuroscienceRome, Italy.
Susanna AmadioIRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Experimental NeuroscienceRome, Italy.
Savina ApolloniIRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Experimental NeuroscienceRome, Italy.
Cinzia VolontéIRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Experimental NeuroscienceRome, Italy.
Fondazione Santa Lucia · ITInstitute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy and inflammation play determinant roles in the pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease characterized by deterioration and final loss of upper and lower motor neurons (MN) priming microglia to sustain neuroinflammation and a vicious cycle of neurodegeneration. Given that extracellular ATP through P2X7 receptor constitutes a neuron-to-microglia alarm signal implicated in ALS, and that P2X7 affects autophagy in immune cells, we have investigated if autophagy can be directly triggered by P2X7 activation in primary microglia from superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1)-G93A mice. We report that P2X7 enhances the expression of the autophagic marker microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3)-II, via mTOR pathway and concomitantly with modulation of anti-inflammatory M2 microglia markers. We also demonstrate that the autophagic target SQSTM1/p62 is decreased in SOD1-G93A microglia after a short stimulation of P2X7, but increased after a sustained challenge. These effects are prevented by the P2X7 antagonist A-804598, and the autophagy/phosphoinositide-3-kinase inhibitor wortmannin (WM). Finally, a chronic

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