Department of Physiology of Visceral Function and Body Fluid, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan; Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Department of Physiology of Visceral Function and Body Fluid, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2023 Jul 12;665:187-194. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.04.118. Epub 2023 May 2.
The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in the regulation of peripheral inflammation. Sympathetic nervous activation stimulates inflammatory gene expression and cytokines, whereas parasympathetic nervous activation suppresses the production of inflammatory cytokines by immune cells. However, most studies on the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and immune processes have analyzed a single branch of the autonomic nerves in isolation. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the effects of sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation on macrophages, which are controlled by autonomic regulation. Macrophages were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to induce TNF-α. Then, the effects of β2 adrenergic receptor and α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation on TNF-α production were assessed using concentration-dependent assays. RNA-seq data were also used to identify genes whose expression was enhanced by parasympathetic and sympathetic stimulation. The simultaneous activation of β2 adrenergic receptors and α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors suppressed LPS-induced TNF-α production in a concentration-dependent manner. Moreover, simultaneous activation of these receptors had synergistic anti-inflammatory effects and induced Tspan13 expression, thereby contributing to anti-inflammatory mechanisms in macrophages. Our study revealed the synergistic anti-inflammatory effects of the parasympathetic and sympathetic stimulation of macrophages. Our results suggest that targeting both sympathetic and parasympathetic signaling is a promising therapeutic approach for inflammatory diseases.
自主神经系统在调节外周炎症中起着重要作用。交感神经兴奋刺激炎症基因表达和细胞因子,而副交感神经兴奋抑制免疫细胞产生炎症细胞因子。然而,大多数关于自主神经系统与免疫过程关系的研究都单独分析了自主神经的单一分支。因此,本研究旨在研究交感和副交感刺激对自主调节控制的巨噬细胞的影响。巨噬细胞用脂多糖(LPS)刺激以诱导 TNF-α。然后,使用浓度依赖性测定法评估β2 肾上腺素能受体和α7 烟碱型乙酰胆碱受体激活对 TNF-α产生的影响。还使用 RNA-seq 数据来鉴定受副交感和交感刺激增强表达的基因。β2 肾上腺素能受体和α7 烟碱型乙酰胆碱受体的同时激活以浓度依赖性方式抑制 LPS 诱导的 TNF-α产生。此外,这些受体的同时激活具有协同的抗炎作用,并诱导 Tspan13 表达,从而有助于巨噬细胞中的抗炎机制。我们的研究揭示了巨噬细胞的副交感和交感刺激的协同抗炎作用。我们的结果表明,靶向交感和副交感信号传递是治疗炎症性疾病的一种有前途的治疗方法。