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Yuen, Tracy J., Johnson, Kory R., Miron, Veronique E., Zhao, Chao, Quandt, Jacqueline, Harrisingh, Marie C., Swire, Matthew, Williams, Anna, McFarland, Henry F., Franklin, Robin J.M. and Ffrench-Constant, Charles 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5621-3377
(2013)
Identification of endothelin 2 as an inflammatory factor that promotes central nervous system remyelination.
Brain, 136 (4).
pp. 1035-1047.
ISSN 0006-8950
Abstract
The development of new regenerative therapies for multiple sclerosis is hindered by the lack of potential targets for enhancing remyelination. The study of naturally regenerative processes such as the innate immune response represents a powerful approach for target discovery to solve this problem. By 'mining' these processes using transcriptional profiling we can identify candidate factors that can then be tested individually in clinically-relevant models of demyelination and remyelination. Here, therefore, we have examined a previously described in vivo model of the innate immune response in which zymosan-induced macrophage activation in the retina promotes myelin sheath formation by oligodendrocytes generated from transplanted precursor cells. While this model is not itself clinically relevant, it does provide a logical starting point for this study as factors that promote myelination must be present. Microarray analysis of zymosan-treated retinae identified several cytokines (CXCL13, endothelin 2, CCL20 and CXCL2) to be significantly upregulated. When tested in a cerebellar slice culture model, CXCL13 and endothelin 2 promoted myelination and endothelin 2 also promoted remyelination. In studies to identify the receptor responsible for this regenerative effect of endothelin 2, analysis of both remyelination following experimental demyelination and of different stages of multiple sclerosis lesions in human post-mortem tissue revealed high levels of endothelin receptor type B in oligodendrocyte lineage cells. Confirming a role for this receptor in remyelination, small molecule agonists and antagonists of endothelin receptor type B administered in slice cultures promoted and inhibited remyelination, respectively. Antagonists of endothelin receptor type B also inhibited remyelination of experimentally-generated demyelination in vivo. Our work therefore identifies endothelin 2 and the endothelin receptor type B as a regenerative pathway and suggests that endothelin receptor type B agonists represent a promising therapeutic approach to promote myelin regeneration.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was supported by the United Kingdom Multiple Sclerosis Society (to C.ff.C., R.J.M.F.); National Multiple Sclerosis Society (to C.ff.C., R.J.M.F.); and the Wellcome Trust (to C.ff.C.) T.J.Y. was supported by the National Institutes of Health-University of Cambridge Graduate Partnerships Program and the International Biomedical Research Alliance. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | endothelin,inflammation,multiple sclerosis,oligodendrocytes,regeneration,remyelination,clinical neurology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2728 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2022 00:26 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 03:56 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86276 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/brain/awt024 |
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