Abstract

The NLRP3 inflammasome is known to play a significant role in the development of neurodegeneration and physiological aging, as well as the development of metabolic inflammation, which has generated significant interest in the scientific community in finding effective inhibitors of the NLRP3 inflammasome and assessing their effects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pharmacological modulation of NLRP3 activity using an indirect NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor, glibenclamide, on the expression of metaflammasome components in in vitro brain cells obtained from middle-aged mice. The study revealed that glibenclamide reduces the expression of pro-inflammatory markers NLRP3 and IL18 in cell culture, which in turn leads to the prevention of phosphorylation of protein kinases of the metaflammasome complex – PKR and IKKβ. However, we did not observe changes in the expression of pathologically phosphorylated IRS, as well as in the number of senescent cells in cultures after the exposure to glibenclamide.

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