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From the Departments of Neurosciences*
and Cell
Biology,
the Lerner Research Institute, the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; the Department of
Neurology,||
the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis
Treatment and Research, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland,
Ohio; the Department of Neurology,
University
of Copenhagen, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark; Berlex
Biosciences,
Richmond, California; and the
Brain Research Institute,¶
University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
Mononuclear phagocytes (monocytes, macrophages, and
microglia) are considered central to multiple sclerosis (MS)
pathogenesis. Molecular cues that mediate mononuclear phagocyte
accumulation and activation in the central nervous system (CNS) of MS
patients may include chemokines RANTES/CCL5 and macrophage inflammatory
protein-1
/CCL3. We analyzed expression of CCR1 and CCR5, the
monocyte receptors for these chemokines, on circulating and
cerebrospinal fluid CD14+ cells, and in MS brain lesions.
Approximately 70% of cerebrospinal fluid monocytes were
CCR1+/CCR5+, regardless of the presence of CNS
pathology, compared to less than 20% of circulating monocytes.
In active MS lesions CCR1+/CCR5+ monocytes were found in perivascular
cell cuffs and at the demyelinating edges of evolving lesions.
Mononuclear phagocytes in early demyelinating stages comprised
CCR1+/CCR5+ hematogenous monocytes and CCR1-/CCR5- resident
microglial cells. In later stages, phagocytic macrophages were
uniformly CCR1-/CCR5+. Cultured in vitro,
adherent monocytes/macrophages up-regulated CCR5 and down-regulated
CCR1 expression, compared to freshly-isolated monocytes. Taken
together, these findings suggest that monocytes competent to
enter the CNS compartment derive from a minority CCR1+/CCR5+ population
in the circulating pool. In the presence of ligand, these cells
will be retained in the CNS. During further activation in
lesions, infiltrating monocytes down-regulate CCR1 but not
CCR5, whereas microglia up-regulate CCR5.
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