Peripheral Blood Monocyte Tolerance Alleviates Intraperitoneal Lipopolysaccharides-Induced Neuroinflammation in Rats...

Neuroinflammation is an important pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). The peripheral immune system could produce profound effects on central immunities. The peripheral blood monocyte (PBM) immune tolerance is the refractoriness of immune system to avoid overactive peripheral inflammation. The PBM are also actively involved in central immune activities. There is evidence implying the probable failure of immune tolerance and impairment of CD200/CD200R signaling in PD patients. Here we aimed to explore the effects of PBM tolerance in peripheral LPS-induced neuroinflammation as well as the specific roles of CD200/CD200R pathway in PBM tolerance. We found that repeated intraperitoneal administration of 0.3 mg/kg LPS was able to induce the PBM tolerance. PBM tolerance reduced peripheral LPS-induced elevation of serum TNF-α, IL-1β expression and TLR4 expression in PBM. PBM tolerance and PBM depletion alleviated peripheral LPS-induced neuroinflammation demonstrated by reduced proinflammatory cytokines in brain and blocked microglia activation. The CD200R expression in PBM was upregulated in PBM tolerance group after intraperitoneal administration of high-dose LPS in vivo and the blockade of CD200/CD200R interaction induced the failure of PBM tolerance in vitro. These results suggested the PBM tolerance could attenuate the peripheral LPS-induced neuroinflammation via upregulating the CD200R expression and the CD200/CD200R signaling played a key role in PBM tolerance. Effective regulation of the PBM in periphery may be a potential way to limit neuroinflammation while the CD200R on PBM could be used as a potential therapeutic target to alleviate neuroinflammation.