Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Publication

Senescent-like microglia limit remyelination through the senescence associated secretory phenotype

Gross, Phillip S
Durán-Laforet, Violeta
Ho, Lana T
Melchor, George S
Zia, Sameera
Manavi, Zeeba
Barclay, William E
Lee, Sung Hyun
Shults, Nataliia
Selva, Sean
... show 5 more
Embargo Expiration Date
Abstract

The capacity to regenerate myelin in the central nervous system diminishes with age. This decline is particularly evident in multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic demyelinating disease. Whether cellular senescence, a hallmark of aging, contributes to remyelination impairment remains unknown. Here, we show that senescent cells accumulate within demyelinated lesions after injury, and treatments with senolytics enhances remyelination in young and middle-aged mice but not aged mice. In young mice, we observe the upregulation of senescence-associated transcripts, primarily in microglia and macrophages, after demyelination, followed by a reduction during remyelination. However, in aged mice, senescence-associated factors persist within lesions, correlating with inefficient remyelination. Proteomic analysis of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) reveals elevated levels of CCL11/Eotaxin-1 in lesions of aged mice, which is found to inhibit oligodendrocyte maturation. These results suggest therapeutic targeting of SASP components, such as CCL11, may improve remyelination in aging and MS.

Source

Gross PS, Durán-Laforet V, Ho LT, Melchor GS, Zia S, Manavi Z, Barclay WE, Lee SH, Shults N, Selva S, Alvarez E, Plemel JR, Fu MM, Schafer DP, Huang JK. Senescent-like microglia limit remyelination through the senescence associated secretory phenotype. Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 7;16(1):2283. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57632-w. PMID: 40055369; PMCID: PMC11889183.

Year of Medical School at Time of Visit
Sponsors
Dates of Travel
DOI
10.1038/s41467-025-57632-w
PubMed ID
40055369
Other Identifiers
Notes
Funding and Acknowledgements
Corresponding Author
Related Resources
Related Resources
Repository Citation
Rights
Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2025