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Dopamine induces functional extracellular traps in microglia

Ishan Agrawal, Nidhi Sharma, Shivanjali Saxena, S. Arvind, Debayani Chakraborty, Debarati Bhunia Chakraborty, Deepak Kumar Jha, Surajit Ghatak, Sridhar Epari, Tejpal Gupta, Sushmita Jha

2021iScience33 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

cells are known to secrete DA. Our findings demonstrate that DA plays a significant role in sterile neuro-inflammation by inducing microglia extracellular traps.

Topics & Concepts

MicrogliaExtracellularReactive oxygen speciesCell biologyNeutrophil extracellular trapsDopamineChemistryInnate immune systemInflammationBiologyNeuroscienceBiochemistryImmunologyReceptorNeutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative MechanismsNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsImmune cells in cancer