eprintid: 10202807 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/28/07 datestamp: 2025-01-03 10:26:35 lastmod: 2025-01-03 10:26:35 status_changed: 2025-01-03 10:26:35 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Picco, Francesca creators_name: Zeboudj, Lynda creators_name: Oggero, Silvia creators_name: Prato, Vincenzo creators_name: Burgoyne, Thomas creators_name: Gamper, Nikita creators_name: Malcangio, Marzia title: Macrophage to neuron communication via extracellular vesicles in neuropathic pain conditions ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D08 keywords: Neuropathic pain, DRG neurons, Macrophages, Extracellular vesicles, microRNAs, Cytokines note: © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: Neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury results from maladaptive changes in neurons and immune cells contribution to mechanisms underlying chronic pain. Specifically, in dorsal root ganglia (DRG), sensory neuron cell bodies release extracellular vesicles (EVs) which promote pro-inflammatory macrophage accumulation that facilitates nociceptive signalling. Here, we show that macrophages shuttle EVs to neurons. Indeed, bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) release EVs containing microRNA-155 (miR-155) which are taken up by cultured sensory neurons. EV-mediated transfer of miR-155 suppresses phosphatase Ship1 expression and increases cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) contents. Intrathecal-injected BMDM-derived EVs accumulate in lumbar DRG and EVs containing miR-155 antagomir result in Ship1 upregulation, Il6 downregulation in neurons in concomitance to attenuation of neuropathic mechanical hypersensitivity. These data suggest that, under neuropathic conditions, pro-inflammatory macrophages shuttle EV-containing miR-155 to neurons and contribute to the expression of pronociceptive IL-6 in DRG. date: 2025-01-15 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier BV official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41268 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2344493 doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41268 lyricists_name: Burgoyne, Thomas lyricists_id: TBURG58 actors_name: Burgoyne, Thomas actors_id: TBURG58 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Heliyon volume: 11 number: 1 article_number: e41268 issn: 2405-8440 citation: Picco, Francesca; Zeboudj, Lynda; Oggero, Silvia; Prato, Vincenzo; Burgoyne, Thomas; Gamper, Nikita; Malcangio, Marzia; (2025) Macrophage to neuron communication via extracellular vesicles in neuropathic pain conditions. Heliyon , 11 (1) , Article e41268. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41268 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41268>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202807/1/Macrophage%20to%20neuron%20communication.pdf