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ENdoThelial macRophage Alliance In Neuroinflammation

Descripción del proyecto

Nueva investigación para un tratamiento innovador en neurología

Más de veinte millones de personas en Europa padecen enfermedades discapacitantes como ictus, esclerosis múltiple y Alzheimer, cuyo tratamiento es complejo y muy caro. El proyecto ENTRAIN, financiado con fondos europeos, reúne a doce socios del entorno académico e industrial de nueve países europeos con el fin de investigar los procesos inflamatorios en el encéfalo y mejorar las terapias pertinentes. Sus responsables se proponen comprender cómo las células endoteliales y los macrófagos trabajan conjuntamente en el encéfalo para favorecer la salud y cómo puede alterarse esta interacción en las enfermedades neurológicas. ENTRAIN sentará las bases para unas nuevas terapias neurológicas prometedoras mediante tecnologías emergentes y nuevas como la quimioproteómica más vanguardista, herramientas genéticas y virales únicas para seleccionar poblaciones celulares definidas e imagenología intravital de alta resolución.

Objetivo

Neurological diseases cause enormous suffering and a great economic burden. Almost 20 million Europeans are affected by the most frequently occurring and disabling disease entities, such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), or multiple sclerosis (MS), and these numbers do not include the large group of rare diseases that affect the CNS. Overall, the annual costs for patient care amount to 400 billion Euros. Common features of many neurological diseases are a vascular pathology with impaired blood-brain barrier (BBB) function or with reduced blood flow and inflammatory changes. As the two are often associated, disentangling their intricate and mutual relationship is a major task for translational neuroscience that could improve the treatment of many neurological diseases. At the cellular level, key players are brain endothelial cells as the building blocks of cerebral vessels and macrophages as the main inflammatory cells of the brain. Recent discoveries indicate that endothelial cells and brain macrophages are in intimate contact and closely interact. However, there is a huge gap of knowledge regarding the specific mode and the consequences of these interactions. Therefore, in-depth analyses of the molecular mechanisms involved are essential to identify and understand key features of macrophage-endothelial cross-talk, and exploitation of this information for the development of treatments of neurological diseases. ENTRAIN will undertake this task, using novel and emerging technologies, such as cutting-edge chemoproteomics, unique genetic and viral tools for targeting of defined cell populations, and high resolution intravital imaging. By characterising the pas de deux of endothelial cells and macrophages at the functional and morphological level, we will lay the foundation for better therapies for neurological diseases. The results will impact on the understanding of neuroinflammation, but also on the rarefaction of vessels.

Coordinador

UNIVERSITAET zu LUEBECK
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 505 576,80
Dirección
RATZEBURGER ALLEE 160
23562 Lubeck
Alemania

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Región
Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Lübeck, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 505 576,80

Participantes (12)

Socios (7)