TRPM2 contributes to neuroinflammation and cognitive deficits in a cuprizone-induced multiple sclerosis model via NLRP3 inflammasome

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that is characterized by demyelination, axonal injury and neurological deterioration. Few medications are available for progressive MS, which is associated with neuroinflammation confined to the CNS compartment. Transient recep...

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Autores principales: Yu Shao, Chen Chen, Tao Zhu, Zengxian Sun, Shufen Li, Lifen Gong, Xinyan Dong, Weida Shen, Linghui Zeng, Yicheng Xie, Peifang Jiang
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Sumario:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that is characterized by demyelination, axonal injury and neurological deterioration. Few medications are available for progressive MS, which is associated with neuroinflammation confined to the CNS compartment. Transient receptor potential melastatin 2 (TRPM2) is a calcium-permeable, non-selective cation channel that plays pathological roles in a wide range of neuroinflammatory diseases; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms of TRPM2 remain elusive. Here, we established a cuprizone model that presents hallmark MS pathologies to investigate the role of TRPM2 in progressive MS. We demonstrated that genetic deletion of TRPM2 yields protection from the cuprizone-induced demyelination, synapse loss, microglial activation, NLRP3 inflammasome activation and proinflammatory cytokines production and ultimately leads to an improvement in cognitive decline. Furthermore, we showed that the pharmacological inhibition of NLRP3 ameliorated the demyelination, neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment in the model with no additive effects on the TRPM2 KO mice. Taken together, these results indicated that TRPM2 plays important roles in regulating neuroinflammation in progressive MS via NLRP3 inflammasome, and the results shed light on TRPM2's potential role as a therapeutic target for MS.