Shandong The First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, CO 81657, USA.
Aging (Albany NY). 2022 Sep 8;14(19):7650-7661. doi: 10.18632/aging.204275.
The aging of the immune system, or immunosenescence, was recently verified to have a causal role in driving the aging of solid organs, while the senolytic elimination of senescent immune cells was found to effectively delay systemic aging. Our recent study also showed that immune cells in severely dystrophic muscles develop senescence-like phenotypes, including the increased expression of senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) factors and senescence markers. Here we further investigated whether the specific clearance of senescent immune cells in dystrophic muscle may effectively improve the function of muscle stem cells and the phenotypes of dystrophic muscle. We observed increased percentage of senescent cells in macrophages from /utro(-/-) mice (a murine model for muscular dystrophy disease, dystrophin-/-; utrophin-/-), while the treatment of /utro(-/-) macrophages with senolytic drug fisetin resulted in reduced number of senescent cells. We administrated fisetin to /utro(-/-) mice for 4 weeks, and observed obviously reduced number of senescent immune cells, restored number of muscle cells, and improve muscle phenotypes. In conclusion, our results reveal that senescent immune cells, such as macrophages, are greatly involved in the development of muscle dystrophy by impacting the function of muscle stem cells, and the senolytic ablation of these senescent cells with fisetin can be an effective therapeutic strategy for improving function of muscle stem cells and phenotypes of dystrophic muscles.
免疫系统的衰老,或免疫衰老,最近被证实与实体器官衰老有因果关系,而衰老免疫细胞的清除被发现能有效地延缓全身衰老。我们最近的研究还表明,严重营养不良的肌肉中的免疫细胞会出现衰老样表型,包括衰老相关分泌表型 (SASP) 因子和衰老标志物的表达增加。在这里,我们进一步研究了特异性清除营养不良肌肉中的衰老免疫细胞是否能有效地改善肌肉干细胞的功能和营养不良肌肉的表型。我们观察到,在 /utro(-/-) 小鼠(肌肉营养不良疾病的一种鼠模型,肌营养不良蛋白-/ -;肌联蛋白-/-)的巨噬细胞中,衰老细胞的比例增加,而用衰老清除药物 fisetin 处理 /utro(-/-) 巨噬细胞会导致衰老细胞数量减少。我们用 fisetin 处理 /utro(-/-) 小鼠 4 周,观察到衰老免疫细胞数量明显减少,肌肉细胞数量恢复,肌肉表型得到改善。总之,我们的结果表明,衰老的免疫细胞,如巨噬细胞,通过影响肌肉干细胞的功能,极大地参与了肌肉营养不良的发展,而用 fisetin 清除这些衰老细胞可以是一种有效的治疗策略,以改善肌肉干细胞的功能和营养不良肌肉的表型。
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