Characterization of the responses of brain macrophages to focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening.
Nat Biomed Eng
; 2023 Oct 19.
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ABSTRACT
The opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) by focused ultrasound (FUS) coupled with intravenously injected microbubbles can be leveraged as a form of immunotherapy for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. However, how FUS BBB opening affects brain macrophages is not well understood. Here by using single-cell sequencing to characterize the distinct responses of microglia and central nervous system-associated macrophages (CAMs) to FUS-mediated BBB opening in mice, we show that the treatment remodels the immune landscape via the recruitment of CAMs and the proliferation of microglia and via population size increases in disease-associated microglia. Both microglia and CAMs showed early and late increases in population sizes, yet only the proliferation of microglia increased at both timepoints. The population of disease-associated microglia also increased, accompanied by the upregulation of genes associated with gliogenesis and phagocytosis, with the depletion of brain macrophages significantly decreasing the duration of BBB opening.
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