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Eosinophils regulate intra-adipose axonal plasticity.

ABSTRACT: Sympathetic innervation regulates energy balance, and the nerve density in the adipose tissues changes under various metabolic states, resulting in altered neuronal control and conferring resilience to metabolic challenges. However, the impact of the immune milieu on neuronal innervation is not known. Here, we examined the regulatory role on nerve plasticity by eosinophils and found they increased cell abundance in response to cold and produced nerve growth factor (NGF) in the white adipose tissues (WAT). Deletion of Ngf from eosinophils or depletion of eosinophils impairs cold-induced axonal outgrowth and beiging process. The spatial proximity between sympathetic nerves, IL-33-expressing stromal cells, and eosinophils was visualized in both human and mouse adipose tissues. At the cellular level, the sympathetic adrenergic signal induced calcium flux in the stromal cells and subsequent release of IL-33, which drove the up-regulation of IL-5 from group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), leading to eosinophil accretion. We propose a feed-forward loop between sympathetic activity and type 2 immunity that coordinately enhances sympathetic innervation and promotes energy expenditure.

SUBMITTER: Meng X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8784130 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:Peripheral nerves allow a bidirectional communication between brain and adipose tissues, and many studies have clearly demonstrated that a loss of the adipose nerve supply results in tissue dysfunction and metabolic dysregulation. Neuroimmune cells closely associate with nerves in many tissues, including subcutaneous white adipose tissue (scWAT). However, in scWAT, their functions beyond degrading norepinephrine in an obese state remain largely unexplored. We previously reported that a myeloid-lineage knockout (KO) of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) resulted in decreased innervation of scWAT, accompanied by an inability to brown scWAT after cold stimulation, and increased adiposity after a high-fat diet. These data underscored that adipose tissue neuroimmune cells support the peripheral nerve supply to adipose and impact the tissue's metabolic functions. We also reported that a subset of myeloid-lineage monocyte/macrophages (Ly6c+CCR2+Cx3cr1+) is recruited to scWAT in response to cold, a process known to increase neurite density in adipose and promote metabolically healthy processes. These cold-induced neuroimmune cells (CINCs) also expressed BDNF. Here we performed RNAseq on CINCs from cold-exposed and room temperature-housed mice, which revealed a striking and coordinated differential expression of numerous genes involved in neuronal function, including neurotrophin signaling and axonal guidance, further supporting that CINCs fulfill a nerve-supporting role in adipose. The increased expression of leukocyte transendothelial migration genes in cold-stimulated CINCs also confirms prior evidence that they are recruited to scWAT and are not tissue resident. We now provide whole-depot imaging of scWAT from LysM-BDNF KO mice, revealing a striking reduction of innervation across the depot fitting with their reduced energy expenditure phenotype. By contrast, Cx3cr1-BDNF KO mice (a macrophage subset of LysM+ cells) exhibited increased thermogenesis and energy expenditure, with compensatory increased food intake and no change in adiposity or body weight. While these KO mice also exhibit a significantly reduced innervation of scWAT, especially around the subiliac lymph node, they displayed an increase in small fiber sympathetic neurite branching, which may underlie their increased thermogenesis. We propose a homeostatic role of scWAT myeloid-lineage neuroimmune cells together in nerve maintenance and neuro-adipose regulation of energy expenditure.

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