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Peripheral monocytes are functionally altered and invade the CNS in ALS patients

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting primarily the upper and lower motor neurons. A common feature of all ALS cases is a well-characterized neuroinflammatory reaction within the central nervous system (CNS). However, much less is known about the role of the peripheral immune system and its interplay with CNS resident immune cells in motor neuron degeneration. Here, we characterized peripheral monocytes in both temporal and spatial dimensions of ALS pathogenesis. We found the circulating monocytes to be deregulated in ALS regarding subtype constitution, function and gene expression. Moreover, we show that CNS infiltration of peripheral monocytes correlates with improved motor neuron survival in a genetic ALS mouse model. Furthermore, application of human immunoglobulins or fusion proteins containing only the human Fc, but not the Fab antibody fragment, increased CNS invasion of peripheral monocytes and delayed the disease onset. Our results underline the importance of peripheral monocytes in ALS pathogenesis and are in agreement with a protective role of monocytes in the early phase of the disease. The possibility to boost this beneficial function of peripheral monocytes by application of human immunoglobulins should be evaluated in clinical trials.

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We thank all blood donors, healthy control probands, as well as ALS patients and pre-symptomatic mutation carriers for participation in this study. We thank all physicians at the neurologic university clinic Ulm for recruiting and taking care of the patients who have participated in this study. We thank Antje Knehr for organizing the collection of blood from members of ALS families and we thank Birgit Linkus, Tanja Wipp, Diana Wiesner, Nadine Todt, Elena Jasovskaja, Johannes Hanselmann, and Eva Barth for technical assistance. This research was supported by the Thierry Latran Foundation.

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    Lisa Zondler, Kathrin Müller, Corinna Bliederhäuser, Wolfgang P. Ruf, Veselin Grozdanov, Axel Freischmidt, Patrick Weydt, Anke Witting, Dietmar R. Thal, Anika M. Helferich, Albert C. Ludolph, Karin M. Danzer & Jochen H. Weishaupt

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Zondler, L., Müller, K., Khalaji, S. et al. Peripheral monocytes are functionally altered and invade the CNS in ALS patients. Acta Neuropathol 132, 391–411 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-016-1548-y

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