https://www.selleckchem.com/ However, in the presence of a transmission barrier, size fractionation overtly delays and even abrogates prion pathogenesis in both the brain and spleen tissues, independently of the infectivity load of the isolated assemblies. Altering by serial dilution PrPSc assembly content of non-fractionated inocula aberrantly reduces their specific infectivity, solely in the presence of a transmission barrier. This suggests that synergy between structurally distinct PrPSc assemblies in the inoculum is requested for crossing the species barrier. Our data support a mechanism whereby overcoming prion species barrier requires complementation between structurally distinct PrPSc assemblies. This work provides key insight into the "quasispecies" concept applied to prions, which would not necessarily rely on prion substrains as constituent but on structural PrPSc heterogeneity within prion population.Post-hypoxic/ischemic neuroinflammation is selectively driven by sterile inflammation, which implies the interplay of brain-intrinsic immune cells with other neural cells and immigrated peripheral immune cells. The resultant inflammatory cascade evolves extra- and intracellular pathogen and danger-associated receptors. The latter interacts with multiprotein complexes termed inflammasomes. The NLRP3 inflammasome is one of the best-described inflammasomes. However, its impact on post-ischemic neuroinflammation and its role in neuroprotection after ischemic stroke are still under debate. Microglial cells are known to be the main source of neuroinflammation; hence, we depleted NLRP3 in BV-2 microglial cells using shRNA to investigate its role in IL-1β maturation and phagocytosis after hypoxia (oxygen-glucose-deprivation (OGD)). We also examined the expression profiles of other inflammasomes (NLRC4, AIM2, ASC) and caspase-1 activity after OGD. OGD triggered caspase-1 activity and increased IL-1β secretion in BV-2 cells with no alteration after NLRP3 depletion. The