Journal: Cell Death Discovery
Article Title: Myeloid HDAC3 deletion protects against traumatic optic injury
doi: 10.1038/s41420-026-03030-0
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Representative images illustrate the internalization of DiI-labeled myelin debris (red), derived from optic nerve axons, by CFDA-labeled macrophages (green) obtained from HDAC3 f/f and M-HDAC3 −/− mice ( N = 5 per group). These cells were pretreated with 0.8 nM of the MertK inhibitor (UNC2025) or vehicle for 1 h in vitro. B Quantification of DiI-labeled myelin debris uptake, expressed as mean fluorescence intensity (MFI), demonstrates a significant reduction in myelin uptake in the UNC2025 pretreatment groups, with UNC2025 abolishing the enhanced myelin uptake observed in vehicle-treated M-HDAC3 −/− macrophages, indicating that myeloid HDAC3 deletion promotes myelin uptake at least in part via MerTK. C Representative images of immunolabeling for neurons, marked by NeuN (green), and microglia/macrophages, marked by Iba-1 (red), of adult M-HDAC3 −/− and HDAC3 f/f mice retinas that were explanted for 24 h and treated with UNC2025 or vehicle (HDAC3 f/f , N = 3, 4; M-HDAC3 −/− , N = 5) for another 24 h. D , E Quantification of NeuN and Iba-1 shows that UNC2025 treatments had no significant effect on neuronal preservation in retinal explants of both treated groups, while it significantly increased myeloid cell number in M-HDAC3 −/− compared to flox retina explants. F , G Representative images of Iba-1 (red) labeling and quantification of optic nerve explants treated with UNC2025 show no effect of the treatment on myeloid cell count between M-HDAC3 −/− and HDAC3 f/f derived optic nerves ( N = 3 per group). * p < 0.05, **** p < 0.001; ns, not statistically significant; FOV, field of view.
Article Snippet: Sections were then labeled for Iba-1, CD68 (BioLegend, Cat. #137002), MerTk (R&D Systems, Cat. # AF591), MBP (Abcam, Cat. # ab7349), HDAC3 (Proteintech, Cat. # 10255-1-AP), and GFAP (Abcam, Cat. #13-0300).
Techniques: Labeling, Derivative Assay, In Vitro, Fluorescence, Immunolabeling, Preserving, Cell Characterization