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- Title
CX<sub>3</sub>CR1 deficiency delays acute skeletal muscle injury repair by impairing macrophage functions.
- Authors
Wanming Zhao; Haiyan Lu; Xingyu Wang; Ransohoff, Richard M.; Lan Zhou
- Abstract
Adequate inflammatory response predominated by macrophage infiltration is essential to acute skeletal muscle injury repair. The majority of intramuscular macrophages express the chemokine receptor CX3CR1. We studied the role of CX3CR1 in regulating intramuscular macrophage number and function in acute injury repair by using a loss-of-function approach. Muscle injury repair was delayed in CX3CR1GFP/GFP mice as compared with wild-type (WT) controls. CX3CR1 was predominantly expressed by macrophages but not by myogenic cells or capillary endothelia cells in injured muscles. Intramuscular macrophage number and subset composition were not altered by CX3CR1 deficiency. Intramuscular macrophage phagocytosis function was impaired by CX3CR1 deficiency as demonstrated by increased number of necrotic fibers (+115%) and percentage of necrotic area (+204%) at 7 d, increased number of intramuscular neutrophils at 3 (+89%) but not 1 d, reduced number of phagocytosing macrophages (-12%) and phagocytosed beads within macrophages (-15%) in CX3CR1GFP/GFP mice as compared with WT controls. The mRNA expression of CD36 (-50%), CD14 (-43%), IGF-1 (-53%), and IL-6 (-40%) was reduced in CX3CR1-deficient macrophages as compared with WT controls. We conclude that CX3CR1 is important to acute skeletal muscle injury repair by regulating macrophage phagocytosis function and trophic growth factor production.--Zhao, W., Lu, H., Wang, X., Ransohoff, R. M., Zhou, L. CX3CR1 deficiency delays acute skeletal muscle injury repair by impairing macrophage functions.
- Subjects
SKELETAL muscle injuries; CHEMOKINES; MACROPHAGES; INFLAMMATION; MESSENGER RNA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; GROWTH factors; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
FASEB Journal, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 1, p380
- ISSN
0892-6638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1096/fj.14-270090