TY - JOUR
T1 - CD69 Plays a Beneficial Role in Ischemic Stroke by Dampening Endothelial Activation
AU - Brait, Vanessa H.
AU - Miró-Mur, Francesc
AU - Pérez-De-Puig, Isabel
AU - Notario, Laura
AU - Hurtado, Begoña
AU - Pedragosa, Jordi
AU - Gallizioli, Mattia
AU - Jiménez-Altayo, Francesc
AU - Arbaizar-Rovirosa, Maria
AU - Otxoa-De-Amezaga, Amaia
AU - Monteagudo, Juan
AU - Ferrer-Ferrer, Maura
AU - De La Rosa, Xavier
AU - Bonfill-Teixidor, Ester
AU - Salas-Perdomo, Angélica
AU - Hernández-Vidal, Alba
AU - Garcia-De-Frutos, Pablo
AU - Lauzurica, Pilar
AU - Planas, Anna M.
PY - 2019/1/18
Y1 - 2019/1/18
N2 - © 2019 American Heart Association, Inc. Rationale: CD69 is an immunomodulatory molecule induced during lymphocyte activation. Following stroke, T-lymphocytes upregulate CD69 but its function is unknown. Objective: We investigated whether CD69 was involved in brain damage following an ischemic stroke. Methods and Results: We used adult male mice on the C57BL/6 or BALB/c backgrounds, including wild-type mice and CD69-/- mice, and CD69+/+ and CD69-/- lymphocyte-deficient Rag2-/- mice, and generated chimeric mice. We induced ischemia by transient or permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion. We measured infarct volume, assessed neurological function, and studied CD69 expression, as well as platelet function, fibrin(ogen) deposition, and VWF (von Willebrand factor) expression in brain vessels and VWF content and activity in plasma, and performed the tail-vein bleeding test and the carotid artery ferric chloride-induced thrombosis model. We also performed primary glial cell cultures and sorted brain CD45-CD11b-CD31+ endothelial cells for mRNA expression studies. We blocked VWF by intravenous administration of anti-VWF antibodies. CD69-/- mice showed larger infarct volumes and worse neurological deficits than the wild-type mice after ischemia. This worsening effect was not attributable to lymphocytes or other hematopoietic cells. CD69 deficiency lowered the time to thrombosis in the carotid artery despite platelet function not being affected. Ischemia upregulated Cd69 mRNA expression in brain endothelial cells. CD69-deficiency increased fibrin(ogen) accumulation in the ischemic tissue, and plasma VWF content and activity, and VWF expression in brain vessels. Blocking VWF reduced infarct volume and reverted the detrimental effect of CD69-/- deficiency. Conclusions: CD69 deficiency promotes a prothrombotic phenotype characterized by increased VWF and worse brain damage after ischemic stroke. The results suggest that CD69 acts as a downregulator of endothelial activation.
AB - © 2019 American Heart Association, Inc. Rationale: CD69 is an immunomodulatory molecule induced during lymphocyte activation. Following stroke, T-lymphocytes upregulate CD69 but its function is unknown. Objective: We investigated whether CD69 was involved in brain damage following an ischemic stroke. Methods and Results: We used adult male mice on the C57BL/6 or BALB/c backgrounds, including wild-type mice and CD69-/- mice, and CD69+/+ and CD69-/- lymphocyte-deficient Rag2-/- mice, and generated chimeric mice. We induced ischemia by transient or permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion. We measured infarct volume, assessed neurological function, and studied CD69 expression, as well as platelet function, fibrin(ogen) deposition, and VWF (von Willebrand factor) expression in brain vessels and VWF content and activity in plasma, and performed the tail-vein bleeding test and the carotid artery ferric chloride-induced thrombosis model. We also performed primary glial cell cultures and sorted brain CD45-CD11b-CD31+ endothelial cells for mRNA expression studies. We blocked VWF by intravenous administration of anti-VWF antibodies. CD69-/- mice showed larger infarct volumes and worse neurological deficits than the wild-type mice after ischemia. This worsening effect was not attributable to lymphocytes or other hematopoietic cells. CD69 deficiency lowered the time to thrombosis in the carotid artery despite platelet function not being affected. Ischemia upregulated Cd69 mRNA expression in brain endothelial cells. CD69-deficiency increased fibrin(ogen) accumulation in the ischemic tissue, and plasma VWF content and activity, and VWF expression in brain vessels. Blocking VWF reduced infarct volume and reverted the detrimental effect of CD69-/- deficiency. Conclusions: CD69 deficiency promotes a prothrombotic phenotype characterized by increased VWF and worse brain damage after ischemic stroke. The results suggest that CD69 acts as a downregulator of endothelial activation.
KW - blood vessels
KW - brain ischemia
KW - endothelium
KW - thrombosis
KW - von Willebrand factor
U2 - 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313818
DO - 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313818
M3 - Article
C2 - 30582456
VL - 124
SP - 279
EP - 291
JO - Circulation Research
JF - Circulation Research
SN - 0009-7330
ER -