Zhu Y, Geng X, Stone C, Guo S, Syed S, Ding Y. Forkhead Box 1(FoxO1) mediates psychological stress-induced neuroinflammation.
Neurol Res 2022;
44:483-495. [PMID:
34983317 DOI:
10.1080/01616412.2021.2022913]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
Neuroinflammation plays a key role in cerebrovascular disease (CVD). Neuropsychiatric disorders appear to share an epidemiological association with inflammation, but the mechanisms are unclear. Forkhead box 1 (FoxO1) regulates inflammatory signaling in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, but its role in psychological stress-induced neuroinflammation remains unknown. Therefore, we investigated the potential involvement of FoxO1 in repeated social defeat stress (RSDS)-induced neuroinflammation.
METHODS
6-week-old male C57BL/6 J mice were randomly divided into RSDS or control groups. In the RSDS group, mice (18-22 g) were individually subjected to social defeat by an 8-week-old CD-1 mouse (28-32 g) for 10 min daily for 10 consecutive days. At 24 h after this 10-day process, corticosterone (CORT), epinephrine (EPI), hydrogen peroxide, and inflammatory factors (TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β, and VCAM-1) from serum and brain tissues were assayed using ELISA, real-time PCR, and Western blot. Iba-1 was determined by immunofluorescence (IF), and FoxO1 siRNA was transfected into BV2 cells to further analyze the expression of inflammatory factors.
RESULTS
RSDS significantly increased the levels of TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β, and VCAM-1 in the serum; it also increased both mRNA and protein expression of these in the brain. FoxO1 was significantly increased after stress, while its knockdown significantly suppressed stress-induced inflammation. Immunofluorescence demonstrated the activation of microglia in the setting of RSDS.
CONCLUSION
RSDS induced a measurable inflammatory response in the blood and brain, and FoxO1 was demonstrated in vitro to aggravate stress-induced inflammation.
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