Adrenergic Control of <scp>P2Y6</scp> Receptor‐Dependent Phagocytosis in Rodent and Human Microglia
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Abstract
Microglia, the resident immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS), are in constant survey of their environment. Extracellular nucleotides, released by stressed and damaged neurons, act as danger signals to microglia through various purinergic/pyrimidinergic receptors. In the CNS, the UDP receptor P2Y6 is mostly expressed in microglia, where its activation induces phagocytosis, a homeostatic function that is dysregulated in several neurodegenerative diseases and in chronic pain. Yet, modulatory mechanisms impacting P2Y6 activity remain to be identified. The microglial β2 adrenergic receptor (ADRB2) for norepinephrine represents a promising candidate for modulation of P2Y6 receptors. Our calcium imaging data indicate that exposure to the ADRB2 agonist isoproterenol inhibits the calcium transients evoked by activation of Gq-coupled P2Y6 receptors in primary mouse microglia. This functional modulation, suppressed by the selective ADRB2 antagonist ICI-118551, is conserved in human iPSC-derived microglia. Accordingly, we observed that the phagocytotic activity induced by P2Y6 is reduced by ADRB2 signaling in both mouse and human microglia. Finally, we report that ADRB2 activation is linked to a decrease in P2Y6 mRNA expression. These findings provide evidence that metabotropic and transcriptional crosstalks between nucleotide and adrenergic transductions control microglial responses in the CNS, potentially contributing to the pathophysiology of neuro-immune disorders and chronic pain conditions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".