PMID: 2480402Dec 1, 1989Paper

The role of mononuclear phagocytes in wound healing after traumatic injury to adult mammalian brain.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
D GiulianM Noponen

Abstract

We monitor cellular responses to a penetrating wound in the cerebral cortex of adult rat during the first weeks after injury. Two classes of activated mononuclear phagocytes containing acetylated low-density lipoprotein (ac-LDL) receptors appear within hours at the wound site. One type of cell surrounding the lesion edge had thin, delicate processes and is identical in appearance to ramified microglia found in developing brain. Within the lesion, round cells are recognized as blood-borne macrophages when labeled by intravenous injection of carbon particles. Thus, both process-bearing reactive microglia and invading macrophages respond to brain trauma. The greatest number of ac-LDL(+) or nonspecific esterase(+) mononuclear phagocytes appears 2 days after injury within the wound site and are associated with a peak production of the cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1). Because intracerebral infusion of IL-1 is known to stimulate astrogliosis and neovascularization (Giulian et al., 1988), we examine the time course of injury-induced reactive astrogliosis and angiogenesis. A 5-fold increase in the number of reactive astroglia is found at 3 d and a marked neovascularization at 5 d after injury. During the first week, mononuclear phagocytes...Continue Reading

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