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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Sleep regulates hepatic neutrophil trafficking by modulating uric acid metabolism via sympathetic nervous system activity.

Pawan K Jha, Utham K Valekunja, Jing Chen-Roetling, Akhilesh B Reddy

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Pawan K JhaDepartment of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7630-6901
Utham K ValekunjaDepartment of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2385-4239
Jing Chen-RoetlingDepartment of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Akhilesh B ReddyDepartment of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3328-1470

Funding

Determination of the mechanistic targets of metforminDP1DK126167 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI REDDY, AKHILESH BASI · 2020 to 2024
$3.9M
Molecular Timekeepers: Converging Pathways in Circadian ControlR35GM161590 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Akhilesh Basi Reddy · 2026 to 2026
$487k
NIDDK NIH HHS DP1 DK126167NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM161590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sleep is essential for survival and serves as a key regulator of metabolic and immune function. Sleep loss is strongly associated with metabolic stress and liver inflammation. The mechanisms linking sleep disruption to hepatic metabolic inflammation (metaflammation) remain poorly defined. Here, we show that sleep loss triggers metaflammation through a sympathetic-metabolic-immune axis. Acute sleep deprivation (SD) activates hepatic sympathetic signaling, leading to increased uric acid (UA) synthesis driven by enhanced expression and activity of xanthine dehydrogenase/xanthine oxidase (XDH/XO) in the liver. Elevated UA, acting as an immune-stimulatory metabolic signal, promotes hepatic neutrophil recruitment and pro-inflammatory cytokine production, a response that is rapidly reversed upon sleep recovery. Our findings identify sleep-dependent sympathetic control of hepatic UA metabolism as a driver of acute liver inflammation and reveal how acute sleep loss reprograms liver immune-metabolic homeostasis.

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Damage-associated molecular patternImmune responseLiverMetabolismMetaflammationNeutrophil infiltrationNeutrophilsSleep deprivationSympathetic nervous systemUric Acid

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PMID42094511
PMCPMC13142481

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