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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 2003, 23(6):2284
Macrophage-Derived Factors Stimulate Optic Nerve Regeneration
Yuqin
Yin1, 2, *,
Qi
Cui4, *,
Yiming
Li1, 2,
Nina
Irwin1, 2,
Dietmar
Fischer1, 2,
Alan R.
Harvey4, and
Larry I.
Benowitz1, 2, 3
1 Laboratories for Neuroscience Research in
Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 2 Department of Surgery and 3 Program in
Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, and 4 School of Anatomy and Human Biology and
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, University of
Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
After optic nerve injury in mature mammals, retinal ganglion cells
(RGCs) are normally unable to regenerate their axons and undergo
delayed apoptosis. However, if the lens is damaged at the time of nerve
injury, many RGCs survive axotomy and regenerate their axons into the
distal optic nerve. Lens injury induces macrophage activation, and we
show here that factors secreted by macrophages stimulate RGCs to
regenerate their axons. When macrophages were activated by intravitreal
injections of Zymosan, a yeast cell wall preparation, the number of RGC
axons regenerating into the distal optic nerve was even greater than
after lens injury. These effects were further enhanced if Zymosan was
injected 3 d after nerve crush. In a grafting paradigm,
intravitreal Zymosan increased the number of RGCs that regenerated
their axons through a 1.5 cm peripheral nerve graft twofold relative to
uninjected controls and threefold if injections were delayed 3 d.
In cell culture, media conditioned by activated macrophages stimulated
adult rat RGCs to regenerate their axons; this effect was potentiated
by a low molecular weight factor that is constitutively present in the
vitreous humor. After gel-filtration chromatography, macrophage-derived proteins 30 kDa were found to be toxic to RGCs, whereas proteins <30
kDa reversed this toxicity and promoted axon regeneration. The
protein(s) that stimulated axon growth is distinct from identified polypeptide trophic factors that were tested. Thus, macrophages produce
proteins with both positive and negative effects on RGCs, and the
effects of macrophages can be optimized by the timing of their activation.
Key words:
retina; ganglion cell; GAP-43; monocyte; trophic
factor; cell culture
*
Y.Y. and Q.C. contributed equally to this work.
Copyright © 2003 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/03/2362284-10$05.00/0
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