High-dose dexamethasone regulates microglial polarization via the GR/JAK1/STAT3 signaling pathway after traumatic brain injury  

作　　者：Mengshi Yang Miao Bai Yuan Zhuang Shenghua Lu Qianqian Ge Hao Li Yu Deng Hongbin Wu Xiaojian Xu Fei Niu Xinlong Dong Bin Zhang Baiyun Liu 

机构地区：[1]Beijing Tiantan Hospital,Capital Medical University,Beijing,China [2]Department of Neurology,The First Hospital of Tsinghua University,Beijing,China [3]Department of Neurotrauma and Beijing Key Laboratory of Central Nervous System Injury,Beijing Neurosurgical Institute,Capital Medical University,Beijing,China [4]Department of Critical Care Medicine,Beijing Tiantan Hospital,Capital Medical University,Beijing,China [5]Center for Nerve Injury and Repair,Beijing Institute of Brain Disorders,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases,Beijing,China

出　　处：《Neural Regeneration Research》2025年第9期2611-2623,共13页中国神经再生研究（英文版）

基　　金：supported by research grants from the Ningbo Science and Technology Plan Project,No.2022Z143hezuo(to BL);the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82201520(to XD)。

摘　　要：Although microglial polarization and neuroinflammation are crucial cellular responses after traumatic brain injury,the fundamental regulatory and functional mechanisms remain insufficiently understood.As potent anti-inflammato ry agents,the use of glucoco rticoids in traumatic brain injury is still controversial,and their regulatory effects on microglial polarization are not yet known.In the present study,we sought to determine whether exacerbation of traumatic brain injury caused by high-dose dexamethasone is related to its regulatory effects on microglial polarization and its mechanisms of action.In vitro cultured BV2 cells and primary microglia and a controlled cortical impact mouse model were used to investigate the effects of dexamethasone on microglial polarization.Lipopolysaccharide,dexamethasone,RU486(a glucocorticoid receptor antagonist),and ruxolitinib(a Janus kinase 1 antagonist)were administered.RNA-sequencing data obtained from a C57BL/6 mouse model of traumatic brain injury were used to identify potential targets of dexamethasone.The Morris water maze,quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction,western blotting,immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy analysis,and TUNEL,Nissl,and Golgi staining were performed to investigate our hypothesis.High-throughput sequencing results showed that arginase 1,a marker of M2 microglia,was significantly downregulated in the dexamethasone group compared with the traumatic brain injury group at3 days post-traumatic brain injury.Thus dexamethasone inhibited M1 and M2 microglia,with a more pronounced inhibitory effect on M2microglia in vitro and in vivo.Glucocorticoid receptor plays an indispensable role in microglial polarization after dexamethasone treatment following traumatic brain injury.Additionally,glucocorticoid receptor activation increased the number of apoptotic cells and neuronal death,and also decreased the density of dendritic spines.A possible downstream receptor signaling mechanism is the GR/JAK1/STAT3 pathway.Overactivation of glucoc

关 键 词：apoptosis BV2 microglia DEXAMETHASONE glucocorticoid receptor GLUCOCORTICOIDS innate immune system microglial polarization neuroinflammation primary microglia traumatic brain injury 

分 类 号：R651.15[医药卫生—外科学]