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Rimmerman N, Verdiger H, Goldenberg H, et al. Microglia and their LAG3 checkpoint underlie the antidepressant and neurogenesis-enhancing effects of electroconvulsive stimulation. Mol Psychiatry. 2021;doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01338-0.
Rimmerman, N., Verdiger, H., Goldenberg, H., Naggan, L., Robinson, E., Kozela, E., Gelb, S., Reshef, R., Ryan, K. M., Ayoun, L., Refaeli, R., Ashkenazi, E., Schottlender, N., Ben Hemo-Cohen, L., Pienica, C., Aharonian, M., Dinur, E., Lazar, K., McLoughlin, D. M., Zvi, A. B., & Yirmiya, R. (2021). Microglia and their LAG3 checkpoint underlie the antidepressant and neurogenesis-enhancing effects of electroconvulsive stimulation. Molecular psychiatry, . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01338-0
Rimmerman, Neta, et al. "Microglia and their LAG3 checkpoint underlie the antidepressant and neurogenesis-enhancing effects of electroconvulsive stimulation." Molecular psychiatry vol. (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01338-0
Rimmerman N, Verdiger H, Goldenberg H, Naggan L, Robinson E, Kozela E, Gelb S, Reshef R, Ryan KM, Ayoun L, Refaeli R, Ashkenazi E, Schottlender N, Ben Hemo-Cohen L, Pienica C, Aharonian M, Dinur E, Lazar K, McLoughlin DM, Zvi AB, Yirmiya R. Microglia and their LAG3 checkpoint underlie the antidepressant and neurogenesis-enhancing effects of electroconvulsive stimulation. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Oct 14; doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01338-0. Epub 2021 Oct 14. PMID: 34650207.
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Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Oct 14; doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01338-0. Epub 2021 Oct 14.

Microglia and their LAG3 checkpoint underlie the antidepressant and neurogenesis-enhancing effects of electroconvulsive stimulation.

Molecular psychiatry

Neta Rimmerman, Hodaya Verdiger, Hagar Goldenberg, Lior Naggan, Elad Robinson, Ewa Kozela, Sivan Gelb, Ronen Reshef, Karen M Ryan, Lily Ayoun, Ron Refaeli, Einat Ashkenazi, Nofar Schottlender, Laura Ben Hemo-Cohen, Claudia Pienica, Maayan Aharonian, Eyal Dinur, Koby Lazar, Declan M McLoughlin, Ayal Ben Zvi, Raz Yirmiya

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
  2. Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
  3. Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  4. Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, St. Patrick's University Hospital, James Street, Dublin, Ireland.
  5. Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
  6. Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. [email protected].

PMID: 34650207 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01338-0

Abstract

Despite evidence implicating microglia in the etiology and pathophysiology of major depression, there is paucity of information regarding the contribution of microglia-dependent molecular pathways to antidepressant procedures. In this study, we investigated the role of microglia in a mouse model of depression (chronic unpredictable stress-CUS) and its reversal by electroconvulsive stimulation (ECS), by examining the effects of microglia depletion with the colony stimulating factor-1 antagonist PLX5622. Microglia depletion did not change basal behavioral measures or the responsiveness to CUS, but it completely abrogated the therapeutic effects of ECS on depressive-like behavior and neurogenesis impairment. Treatment with the microglia inhibitor minocycline concurrently with ECS also diminished the antidepressant and pro-neurogenesis effects of ECS. Hippocampal RNA-Seq analysis revealed that ECS significantly increased the expression of genes related to neurogenesis and dopamine signaling, while reducing the expression of several immune checkpoint genes, particularly lymphocyte-activating gene-3 (Lag3), which was the only microglial transcript significantly altered by ECS. None of these molecular changes occurred in microglia-depleted mice. Immunohistochemical analyses showed that ECS reversed the CUS-induced changes in microglial morphology and elevation in microglial LAG3 receptor expression. Consistently, either acute or chronic systemic administration of a LAG3 monoclonal antibody, which readily penetrated into the brain parenchyma and was found to serve as a direct checkpoint blocker in BV2 microglia cultures, rapidly rescued the CUS-induced microglial alterations, depressive-like symptoms, and neurogenesis impairment. These findings suggest that brain microglial LAG3 represents a promising target for novel antidepressant therapeutics.

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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