Abstract
Inhibition of histone deacetylases (HDACs) has been shown to reduce inflammation and white matter damage after various forms of brain injury via modulation of microglia/macrophage polarization. Previously we showed that the HDAC inhibitor scriptaid could attenuate white matter injury (WMI) after ICH. To access whether modulation of microglia/macrophage polarization might underlie this protection, we investigated the modulatory role of HDAC2 in microglia/macrophage polarization in response to WMI induced by intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and in primary microglia and oligodendrocyte co-cultures. HDAC2 activity was inhibited via conditional knockout of the Hdac2 gene in microglia or via administration of scriptaid. Conditional knockout of the Hdac2 gene in microglia and HDAC inhibition with scriptaid both improved neurological functional recovery and reduced WMI after ICH. Additionally, HDAC inhibition shifted microglia/macrophage polarization toward the M2 phenotype and reduced proinflammatory cytokine secretion after ICH in vivo. In vitro, a transwell co-culture model of microglia and oligodendrocytes also demonstrated that the HDAC inhibitor protected oligodendrocytes by modulating microglia polarization and mitigating neuroinflammation. Moreover, we found that scriptaid decreased the expression of pJAK2 and pSTAT1 in cultured microglia when stimulated with hemoglobin. Thus, HDAC inhibition ameliorated ICH-mediated neuroinflammation and WMI by modulating microglia/macrophage polarization.
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