Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

Mast cells are localized throughout the body and mediate allergic, immune, and inflammatory reactions. They are heterogeneous, tissue-resident, long-lived, and granulated cells. Mast cells increase their numbers in specific site in the body by proliferation, increased recruitment, increased survival...

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Main Authors: Duraisamy Kempuraj, Govindhasamy P. Selvakumar, Ramasamy Thangavel, Mohammad E. Ahmed, Smita Zaheer, Sudhanshu P. Raikwar, Shankar S. Iyer, Sachin M. Bhagavan, Swathi Beladakere-Ramaswamy, Asgar Zaheer
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00703/full
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Ramasamy Thangavel
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Mohammad E. Ahmed
Mohammad E. Ahmed
Smita Zaheer
Sudhanshu P. Raikwar
Sudhanshu P. Raikwar
Shankar S. Iyer
Shankar S. Iyer
Sachin M. Bhagavan
Swathi Beladakere-Ramaswamy
Asgar Zaheer
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description Mast cells are localized throughout the body and mediate allergic, immune, and inflammatory reactions. They are heterogeneous, tissue-resident, long-lived, and granulated cells. Mast cells increase their numbers in specific site in the body by proliferation, increased recruitment, increased survival, and increased rate of maturation from its progenitors. Mast cells are implicated in brain injuries, neuropsychiatric disorders, stress, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration. Brain mast cells are the first responders before microglia in the brain injuries since mast cells can release prestored mediators. Mast cells also can detect amyloid plaque formation during Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Stress conditions activate mast cells to release prestored and newly synthesized inflammatory mediators and induce increased blood-brain barrier permeability, recruitment of immune and inflammatory cells into the brain and neuroinflammation. Stress induces the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) from paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus and mast cells. CRH activates glial cells and mast cells through CRH receptors and releases neuroinflammatory mediators. Stress also increases proinflammatory mediator release in the peripheral systems that can induce and augment neuroinflammation. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a traumatic-chronic stress related mental dysfunction. Currently there is no specific therapy to treat PTSD since its disease mechanisms are not yet clearly understood. Moreover, recent reports indicate that PTSD could induce and augment neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Mast cells play a crucial role in the peripheral inflammation as well as in neuroinflammation due to brain injuries, stress, depression, and PTSD. Therefore, mast cells activation in brain injury, stress, and PTSD may accelerate the pathogenesis of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases including AD. This review focusses on how mast cells in brain injuries, stress, and PTSD may promote the pathogenesis of AD. We suggest that inhibition of mast cells activation and brain cells associated inflammatory pathways in the brain injuries, stress, and PTSD can be explored as a new therapeutic target to delay or prevent the pathogenesis and severity of AD.
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spelling doaj.art-6439ff2046784dac99bf8271e1b0a7552022-12-22T03:11:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroscience1662-453X2017-12-011110.3389/fnins.2017.00703293975Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease PathogenesisDuraisamy Kempuraj0Duraisamy Kempuraj1Govindhasamy P. Selvakumar2Govindhasamy P. Selvakumar3Ramasamy Thangavel4Ramasamy Thangavel5Mohammad E. Ahmed6Mohammad E. Ahmed7Smita Zaheer8Sudhanshu P. Raikwar9Sudhanshu P. Raikwar10Shankar S. Iyer11Shankar S. Iyer12Sachin M. Bhagavan13Swathi Beladakere-Ramaswamy14Asgar Zaheer15Asgar Zaheer16Department of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesDepartment of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesHarry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, MO, United StatesMast cells are localized throughout the body and mediate allergic, immune, and inflammatory reactions. They are heterogeneous, tissue-resident, long-lived, and granulated cells. Mast cells increase their numbers in specific site in the body by proliferation, increased recruitment, increased survival, and increased rate of maturation from its progenitors. Mast cells are implicated in brain injuries, neuropsychiatric disorders, stress, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration. Brain mast cells are the first responders before microglia in the brain injuries since mast cells can release prestored mediators. Mast cells also can detect amyloid plaque formation during Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Stress conditions activate mast cells to release prestored and newly synthesized inflammatory mediators and induce increased blood-brain barrier permeability, recruitment of immune and inflammatory cells into the brain and neuroinflammation. Stress induces the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) from paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus and mast cells. CRH activates glial cells and mast cells through CRH receptors and releases neuroinflammatory mediators. Stress also increases proinflammatory mediator release in the peripheral systems that can induce and augment neuroinflammation. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a traumatic-chronic stress related mental dysfunction. Currently there is no specific therapy to treat PTSD since its disease mechanisms are not yet clearly understood. Moreover, recent reports indicate that PTSD could induce and augment neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Mast cells play a crucial role in the peripheral inflammation as well as in neuroinflammation due to brain injuries, stress, depression, and PTSD. Therefore, mast cells activation in brain injury, stress, and PTSD may accelerate the pathogenesis of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases including AD. This review focusses on how mast cells in brain injuries, stress, and PTSD may promote the pathogenesis of AD. We suggest that inhibition of mast cells activation and brain cells associated inflammatory pathways in the brain injuries, stress, and PTSD can be explored as a new therapeutic target to delay or prevent the pathogenesis and severity of AD.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00703/fullAlzheimer's diseasemast cellsneurodegenerationneuroinflammationstressPTSD
spellingShingle Duraisamy Kempuraj
Duraisamy Kempuraj
Govindhasamy P. Selvakumar
Govindhasamy P. Selvakumar
Ramasamy Thangavel
Ramasamy Thangavel
Mohammad E. Ahmed
Mohammad E. Ahmed
Smita Zaheer
Sudhanshu P. Raikwar
Sudhanshu P. Raikwar
Shankar S. Iyer
Shankar S. Iyer
Sachin M. Bhagavan
Swathi Beladakere-Ramaswamy
Asgar Zaheer
Asgar Zaheer
Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease
mast cells
neurodegeneration
neuroinflammation
stress
PTSD
title Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
title_full Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
title_fullStr Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
title_full_unstemmed Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
title_short Mast Cell Activation in Brain Injury, Stress, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
title_sort mast cell activation in brain injury stress and post traumatic stress disorder and alzheimer s disease pathogenesis
topic Alzheimer's disease
mast cells
neurodegeneration
neuroinflammation
stress
PTSD
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00703/full
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