薄壁组织
病理
大脑皮层
基质金属蛋白酶
医学
渗透(HVAC)
炎症
神经炎症
小胶质细胞
皮质(解剖学)
血脑屏障
内科学
神经科学
脑梗塞
免疫学
生物
中枢神经系统
缺血
物理
热力学
作者
Wolfgang Walz,Francisco S. Cayabyab
标识
DOI:10.1007/s11064-017-2265-1
摘要
We use the modified pial vessel disruption rat model to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cavitation as it plays a role in lacunar infarction. Here we discuss the similarities between the genesis of pulmonary cavitation in various animal models and lacunar infarction in the cerebral cortex of rats. Both pathological processes involve the creation of a cavity surrounded by fibroblasts or reactive astrocytes. A crucial step in both, the lung and the cerebral cortex, appears to be the migration of neutrophils across the endothelial barrier into the parenchyma. In the lung and cerebral cortex this involves release of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9). Inside the parenchyma neutrophils continue to release MMP-9. In both situations batimastat (BB-94) and minocycline reduce release of MMP-9 and prevent cavitation. In the cerebral cortex MMP-9 release by resident microglia plays an additional role. We therefore advance the hypothesis that cavitation in both tissues is driven by MMP-9 originating from invading neutrophils. Therapeutic intervention has to focus on these blood-borne intruder cells and specific MMP actions. Batimastat and its derivatives (marimastat, BB-1101, mCGS-27023-A, ilomastat, GM6001, CTK8G1150) are already in clinical or experimental use in humans for anti-cancer treatment, and these clinically relevant drugs could be repurposed to act as anti-inflammatory to counter neutrophil contribution to lung or cerebral cortex cavitation.
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