Low-Dose IL-2 Treatment Affords Protection against Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Injury by Expanding Peripheral Regulatory T Cells

作者：Guoping Dong, Cong Li, Quan Hu, Yuan Wang, Jingyi Sun, Feng Gao, Mingfeng Yang, Baoliang Sun, Leilei Mao · 发表于：ACS Chemical Neuroscience · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00611 · 被引用次数：29 · 研究领域：Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms、Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications、Barrier Structure and Function Studies

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is considered a devastating disease, leaving survivors with lifelong neurological impairment. With increased knowledge that regulatory T cells (Tregs) provide protection against stroke, novel agents which could expand Treg populations have been assessed in terms of the potential clinical neuroprotection effect. Using a rat SAH model, we investigated the number variation of Tregs induced by SAH and the protective effect of low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) treatment on the SAH model. We observed that the number of peripheral Tregs significantly decreased soon after SAH, accompanying with reactivity recovery after 3 days. Our results also revealed that low-dose IL-2 treatment not only elevated Tregs numbers but significantly reduced neuronal injury and improved neurological functions up to 21 days (d) after SAH. Furthermore, compared with PBS-treatment group, cerebral proinflammatory factors and peripheral neutrophils were significantly suppressed by low-dose IL-2 after SAH. Therefore, the results suggest that low-dose IL-2 treatment is a novel and clinically feasible immunotherapy to improve long-term outcomes after SAH, perhaps via up-regulating Treg population to suppress neuroinflammation induced by SAH.