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Complement deficiency promotes cutaneous wound healing in mice
Authors
S. Rafail Kourtzelis, I. Foukas, P.G. Markiewski, M.M. DeAngelis, R.A. Guariento, M. Ricklin, D. Grice, E.A. Lambris, J.D.
Publication date
1 January 2015
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Abstract
Wound healing is a complex homeostatic response to injury that engages numerous cellular activities, processes, and cell-to-cell interactions. The complement system, an intricate network of proteins with important roles in immune surveillance and homeostasis, has been implicated in many physiological processes; however, its role in wound healing remains largely unexplored. In this study, we employ a murine model of excisional cutaneous wound healing and show that C3-/- mice exhibit accelerated early stages of wound healing. Reconstitution of C3-/- mice with serum from C3+/+ mice or purified human C3 abrogated the accelerated wound-healing phenotype. Wound histology of C3-/- mice revealed a reduction in inflammatory infiltrate compared with C3+/+ mice. C3 deficiency also resulted in increased accumulation of mast cells and advanced angiogenesis. We further show that mice deficient in the downstream complement effector C5 exhibit a similar wound-healing phenotype, which is recapitulated in C5aR1-/- mice, but not C3aR-/- or C5aR2-/- mice. Taken together, these data suggest that C5a signaling through C5aR may in part play a pivotal role in recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells to the wound environment, which in turn could delay the early stages of cutaneous wound healing. These findings also suggest a previously underappreciated role for complement in wound healing, and may have therapeutic implications for conditions of delayed wound healing. Copyright © 2015 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc
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