Urolithin A and Nicotinamide Riboside differentially regulate innate immune defenses and metabolism.

During aging, general cellular processes such as autophagic clearance, DNA repair, mitochondrial health, metabolism, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) levels, and immunological responses become compromised. Urolithin A (UA) and NAD+ supplementation stimulate mitophagy, reduce pathological plaque load, and inflammation while improving learning in models of Alzheimer’s disease (Hou et al 2021; Fang et al 2019). Here we have performed a During aging, general cellular processes such as autophagic clearance, DNA repair, mitochondrial health, metabolism, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) levels, and immunological responses become compromised. Urolithin A (UA) and NAD+ supplementation stimulate mitophagy, reduce pathological plaque load, and inflammation while improving learning in models of Alzheimer’s disease (Hou et al 2021; Fang et al 2019). Here we have performed a pairwise analysis of UA and nicotinamide riboside (NR) to investigate how these compounds modulate inflammation. The role of microglia in driving neuroinflammation is becoming more recognized in several neurodegenerative diseases, yet the effects of these drugs on microglia cells have not been thoroughly investigated. As both UA and NR are recognized as safe dietary supplements, their function in normal cells is equally important to understand as in a disease state. Here we investigated the effects of UA and NR in the human microglia cell line, HMC3. HMC3 cells were treated with 10 µM UA or 3 mM NR for 1 week. For gene expression analysis, we used the human neuroinflammation panel (XT-CSO-MNROI1-12).