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BETSUYAKU, T, ITO, Y, PEAKE, Nicholas, AL-BARI, AA, EL-AKABAWY, G and EID, N (2024). Enhanced autophagy and phagocytosis of apoptotic lymphocytes in splenic macrophages of acute ethanol-treated rats: Light and electron microscopic studies. Histology and histopathology, 39 (7), 853-866.
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Abstract
Autophagy is a prosurvival mechanism for the clearance of damaged cellular components, specifically upon exposure to various stressors. In lymphoid organs, excessive ethanol consumption increases lymphocyte apoptosis, resulting in immunosuppression. However, ethanol-induced autophagy and related phagocytosis of apoptotic lymphocytes in the spleen have not been studied yet. Adult male Wistar rats were injected intraperitoneally either with 5 g/kg ethanol or phosphate-buffered saline (as a control group) and then sacrificed 0, 3, 6, and 24 hours after injection. Light and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) findings indicated enhanced T cell apoptosis in the white pulps of ethanol-treated rats (ETRs) compared with the control group, which peaked at 6 h and was associated with the accumulation of tingible body macrophages (TBMs). These macrophages exhibited an upregulated autophagic response, as evidenced by enhanced LC3-II (a specific marker of autophagosomes) expression, which peaked at 24h. In addition, double labeling immunofluorescence of LC3-II with lysosomal markers revealed the enhanced formation of autolysosomes in TBMs of ETRs, which was associated with suppression of p62 immunostaining, indicating the enhanced autophagic flux. Interestingly, this elevated autophagic response in ETR TBMs was accompanied by evidence of LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) of apoptotic splenocytes. This is based on TUNEL/LC3-II double labeling and TEM observations of phagosomes containing apoptotic bodies, enclosed within phagosomal membranes adjacent to the autophagic vacuoles. It can be concluded that enhanced prosurvival autophagy in splenic TBMs of ETRs and clearing of apoptotic lymphocytes via LAP may contribute to preventing secondary necrosis and autoimmune diseases.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Animals; Autophagy; Rats, Wistar; Male; Phagocytosis; Apoptosis; Ethanol; Spleen; Macrophages; Rats; Lymphocytes; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; 1103 Clinical Sciences; Oncology & Carcinogenesis; 3202 Clinical sciences |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.14670/HH-18-729 |
| Page Range: | 853-866 |
| SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic Elements |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Elements |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2024 12:45 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2024 13:00 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33972 |
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