@conference{
author = "Milićević, Katarina and Bijelić, Dunja and Lazarević, Milica and Miljković, Đorđe and Bogdanović Pristov, Jelena and Petković, Branka and Anđus, Pavle and Momčilović, Miljana and Nikolić, Ljiljana",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous
system (CNS), characterized by focal neurodegenerative and demyelinating lesions.
A major contributor to the pathogenic process of MS is the complex interaction
between astrocytes and the CNS-infiltrating immune cells (CNS-IIC). The aim of our
study is to explore how naïve astrocytes respond to the autoreactive immune cells
that invade the CNS. For this reason, CNS-IICs were isolated and purified from
spinal cords of rats with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Ca2+
dynamics was monitored in Fluo-4 labeled naïve astrocytes, isolated from spinal
cords of wild type rat pups, following brief bath application of CNS-IIC or peripheral
immune cells, with different pharmacological agents. CNS-IICs, and not peripheral
immune cells, induced robust elevation of intracellular Ca2+ in naïve astrocytes. We
demonstrated that this CNS IIC-induced increase in astrocyte Ca2+ does not depend
on the metabotropic glutamate receptors, metabotropic purinergic P2Y1 receptors
or TRPA1 channels. Remarkably, further research showed that Ca2+ elevation in
astrocytes upon exposure to CNS IICs is due to the activation of ionotropic purinergic
P2X7 receptors. Bioluminescence assay showed that immune cell-derived ATP is
not a cause of astrocytic P2X7 receptor activation. In fact, we showed that CNS-IICs
promoted P2X7 receptor activation and increase in cytosolic Ca2+ in astrocytes by
astrocytic hemichannel-dependent ATP release mechanism. Our data suggest that
direct contact between astrocytes and CNS IICs induce ATP-dependent Ca2+
changes in astrocytes and points to the new aspect of cell-cell interactions in
propagation of neuroinflammatory response in CNS autoimmunity.",
publisher = "Querétaro, México: Instituto de neurobiologia",
journal = "Proceedings: 3rd Symposium on Physiology and pathology of neuroglia; 2020 Noc 24-25; Virtual",
title = "Central nervous system-infiltrated immune cells alter calcium dynamics in astrocytes",
pages = "45",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_ibiss_5514"
}