| Literature DB >> 11240025 |
J Husemann1, J D Loike, T Kodama, S C Silverstein.
Abstract
Class A scavenger receptors (SR-A) mediate microglial interaction with fibrillar beta-amyloid (fAbeta). We report here that neonatal microglia from SR-A knockout mice (SR-A-/-) adhere to surface-bound fAbeta, and produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) as efficiently as wildtype microglia; that both wildtype and SR-A-/- microglia express SR-BI; that antibodies against SR-BI do not affect adhesion or ROS production by wildtype microglia, but inhibit adhesion and ROS production of SR-A-/- microglia to immobilized fAbeta by approximately 40%. Adhesion to fAbeta-coated surfaces, and uptake of fAbeta by both wildtype and SR-A-/- microglia was almost completely inhibited by incubation with fucoidan. Thus SR-BI and SR-A mediate similar effector functions in neonatal microglia, which suggests that SR-BI plays as important a role as SR-A, and can maintain the wildtype phenotype in SR-A-/- microglia.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11240025 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(01)00239-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neuroimmunol ISSN: 0165-5728 Impact factor: 3.478