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Complement C5 contributes to brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage

van Dijk, Bart J., Meijers, Joost C.M., Kloek, Anne T., Knaup, Veronique L., Rinkel, Gabriel J.E., Morgan, B. Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-7676, van der Kamp, Marije J., Osuka, Koji, Aronica, Eleonora, Ruigrok, Ynte M., van de Beek, Diederik, Brouwer, Matthijs, Pekna, Marcela, Hol, Elly M. and Vergouwen, Mervyn D.I. 2020. Complement C5 contributes to brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Translational Stroke Research 11 , pp. 678-688. 10.1007/s12975-019-00757-0

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Abstract

Previous studies showed that complement activation is associated with poor functional outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). We investigated whether complement activation is underlying brain injury after aneurysmal SAH (n = 7) and if it is an appropriate treatment target. We investigated complement expression in brain tissue of aneurysmal SAH patients (n = 930) and studied the role of common genetic variants in C3 and C5 genes in outcome. We analyzed plasma levels (n = 229) to identify the functionality of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with outcome. The time course of C5a levels was measured in plasma (n = 31) and CSF (n = 10). In an SAH mouse model, we studied the extent of microglia activation and cell death in wild-type mice, mice lacking the C5a receptor, and in mice treated with C5-specific antibodies (n = 15 per group). Brain sections from aneurysmal SAH patients showed increased presence of complement components C1q and C3/C3b/iC3B compared to controls. The complement component 5 (C5) SNP correlated with C5a plasma levels and poor disease outcome. Serial measurements in CSF revealed that C5a was > 1400-fold increased 1 day after aneurysmal SAH and then gradually decreased. C5a in plasma was 2-fold increased at days 3–10 after aneurysmal SAH. In the SAH mouse model, we observed a ≈ 40% reduction in both microglia activation and cell death in mice lacking the C5a receptor, and in mice treated with C5-specific antibodies. These data show that C5 contributes to brain injury after experimental SAH, and support further study of C5-specific antibodies as novel treatment option to reduce brain injury and improve prognosis after aneurysmal SAH.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISSN: 1868-4483
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 26 February 2020
Date of Acceptance: 19 November 2019
Last Modified: 06 May 2023 04:41
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/129990

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