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Microglia-secreted TNF-α affects differentiation efficiency and viability of pluripotent stem cell-derived human dopaminergic precursors

View ORCID ProfileShirley D. Wenker, Victoria Gradaschi, Carina Ferrari, Maria Isabel Farias, Corina Garcia, Juan Beauquis, Xianmin Zeng, Fernando J. Pitossi
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.11.475933
Shirley D. Wenker
aFundación Instituto Leloir - IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
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Victoria Gradaschi
aFundación Instituto Leloir - IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
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Carina Ferrari
aFundación Instituto Leloir - IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
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Maria Isabel Farias
aFundación Instituto Leloir - IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
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Corina Garcia
aFundación Instituto Leloir - IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
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Juan Beauquis
bInstituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Xianmin Zeng
cRxCell, CA, USA
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Fernando J. Pitossi
aFundación Instituto Leloir - IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
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ABSTRACT

Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra pars compacta. Even though successful transplantation of dopamine-producing cells into the striatum exhibits favourable effects in animal models and clinical trials; transplanted cell survival is low. Since every transplant elicits an inflammatory response which can affect cell survival and differentiation, we aimed to study in vivo and in vitro the impact of the pro-inflammatory environment on human dopaminergic precursors. We first observed that transplanted human dopaminergic precursors into the striatum of immunosuppressed rats elicited an early and sustained activation of astroglial and microglial cells after 15 days post-transplant. This long-lasting response was associated with Tumor necrosis factor alpha expression in microglial cells. In vitro conditioned media from activated BV2 microglial cells increased cell death, decreased Tyrosine hydroxylase -positive cells and induced morphological alterations on human neural stem cells-derived dopaminergic precursors at two differentiation stages: 19 days and 28 days. Those effects were ameliorated by inhibition of Tumor necrosis factor alpha, a cytokine which was previously detected in vivo and in conditioned media from activated BV-2 cells. Our results suggest that a pro-inflammatory environment is sustained after transplantation under immunosuppression, providing a window of opportunity to modify this response to increase transplant survival and differentiation. In addition, our data show that the microglia-derived pro-inflammatory microenvironment has a negative impact on survival and differentiation of dopaminergic precursors. Finally, Tumor necrosis factor alpha plays a key role in these effects, suggesting that this cytokine could be an interesting target to increase the efficacy of human dopaminergic precursors transplantation in Parkinson’s Disease.

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Microglia-secreted TNF-α affects differentiation efficiency and viability of pluripotent stem cell-derived human dopaminergic precursors
Shirley D. Wenker, Victoria Gradaschi, Carina Ferrari, Maria Isabel Farias, Corina Garcia, Juan Beauquis, Xianmin Zeng, Fernando J. Pitossi
bioRxiv 2022.01.11.475933; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.11.475933
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Microglia-secreted TNF-α affects differentiation efficiency and viability of pluripotent stem cell-derived human dopaminergic precursors
Shirley D. Wenker, Victoria Gradaschi, Carina Ferrari, Maria Isabel Farias, Corina Garcia, Juan Beauquis, Xianmin Zeng, Fernando J. Pitossi
bioRxiv 2022.01.11.475933; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.11.475933

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