From disruption to remodeling: the evolution and therapeutic prospects of Neuroimmune Regulatory Circuitry after ischemic stroke

作者：Yikun Gao, Qing Chen, Rui Tao, Wenrui Han, Zhanyong Zhu, Lijuan Gu · 发表于：Frontiers in Immunology · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.3389/fimmu.2025.1702245 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms、Immune Response and Inflammation、Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies

Ischemic stroke (IS) is a leading cause of death and long-term disability globally, and the efficacy of current reperfusion therapies is limited, highlighting a significant unmet clinical need. This review reconceptualizes IS not as a mere focal brain injury but as a systemic disease driven by the catastrophic collapse of the Neuroimmune Regulatory Circuitry. This sophisticated network, normally responsible for maintaining homeostasis, undergoes a multi-level failure after stroke, beginning with pathological sensory input and culminating in a dysregulated efferent response characterized by sustained sympathetic hyperactivity and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction. These aberrant neural commands pathologically alter the phenotype and function of peripheral immune cells, leading to a profound immune imbalance: emergency hematopoiesis generates primed, pro-inflammatory myeloid cells, while the lymphoid lineage suffers massive depletion through apoptosis and sequestration, causing severe lymphopenia. This framework unifies seemingly disparate post-stroke complications-such as Stroke-Induced Immunosuppression (SIIS) and subsequent infections, long-term cardiovascular events fueled by chronic inflammation, and cognitive decline driven by persistent neuroinflammation-as predictable outcomes of this circuitry failure. Consequently, this review argues for a paradigm shift away from single-target therapies towards an "integrative and sequential" approach to treatment...