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Engagement of SIRP\u03b1 by CD47 provides a downregulatory signal that inhibits host cell phagocytosis, promoting a \u201cdon\u2019t-eat-me\u201d signal. These proteins are involved in the immune response and are downmodulated in inflammatory diseases. The involvement of inflammation and of the inflammasome in HD has already been described. In this study, we focused on other factors that can be involved in the unregulated inflammatory response that accelerates and exacerbate the neurodegenerative process in HD. Our results show that CD47 on striatal neurons decreased in HD mice, while it increased in wild type mice with age. SIRP\u03b1, on the other hand, was present in neurons in the wild type and increases in the R6\/2 mice at all stages. Recruitment of SIRP\u03b1 and binding to CD47 promotes the activation through phosphorylating events of non-receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 and SHP-2 in neurons and microglia. SHP phosphatases are able to curb the activity of NLRP3 inflammasome thereby reducing the detrimental effect of neuroinflammation. Such activity is mediated by the inhibition (dephosphorylation) of the proteins signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT). We found that activated SHP-1 was present in microglia and neurons of WT mice at 5 and 13 weeks, increasing with time; while in R6\/2 it was not localized in neurons but only in microglia, where it decreases with time. Consequently, STAT1 was overexpressed in neurons of R6\/2 mice, as an effect of lack of modulation by SHP-1. 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