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Sriram S, Steiner I. Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis: a misleading model of multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol 2006; 58:939-45. [PMID: 16315280 DOI: 10.1002/ana.20743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Despite many years of intensive research, multiple sclerosis (MS) defies understanding and treatment remains suboptimal. The prevailing hypothesis is that MS is immune mediated and that experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a suitable model to elucidate pathogenesis and devise therapy. This review examines critically the validity that EAE is an adequate and useful animal model of MS and finds credible evidence lacking. EAE represents more a model of acute central nervous system inflammation than the counterpart of MS. We propose to reconsider the utilization of EAE, especially when this model is used to define therapy. This will also force us to examine MS without the restraints imposed by EAE, as to what it is, rather than what it looks like.
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- Subramaniam Sriram
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
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Tamaki S, Homma S, Enomoto Y, Komita H, Zeniya M, Ohno T, Toda G. Autoimmune hepatic inflammation by vaccination of mice with dendritic cells loaded with well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma cells and administration of interleukin-12. Clin Immunol 2005; 117:280-93. [PMID: 16246626 DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2005.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2005] [Revised: 07/09/2005] [Accepted: 08/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Vaccination of mice with dendritic cells loaded with Hepa1-6, well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (DC/Hepa1-6), induced cytotoxic T lymphocytes against Hepa1-6. Liver-specific inflammation was generated by vaccination of mice with DC/Hepa1-6 and subsequent administration of interleukin (IL)-12. Vaccination with DCs loaded with MC38 or B16 and administration of IL-12 did not generate significant liver-specific inflammation. Splenic T cells from DC/Hepa1-6-vaccinated mice showed proliferative response by stimulation with S-100 protein of the liver and showed cytotoxic activity to hepatocytes. Hepatic mononuclear cells from DC/Hepa1-6 + IL-12-treated mice also showed cytotoxic activity to hepatocytes. Adoptive transfer of splenocytes from DC/Hepa1-6-vaccinated mice produced hepatic inflammation in recipient mice that had been pretreated with IL-12. IL-12 upregulated the expression of adhesion molecules and chemokines in the liver. In conclusion, CTLs responsive to hepatocytes induced by DC/Hepa1-6 and enhanced expression of adhesion molecules and chemokines in the liver by IL-12 would produce autoimmune hepatic inflammation.
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- Shigeo Tamaki
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Hartung HP, Kieseier BC, Hemmer B. Purely systemically active anti-inflammatory treatments are adequate to control multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2005; 252 Suppl 5:v30-7. [PMID: 16254700 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-005-5006-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Collective evidence supports the notion that multiple sclerosis is principally an autoimmune disease. Much of it stems from models of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, generated by inoculation of animals with central nervous system antigens such as MBP, PLP, S100 and MOG or peptides thereof. Different ways of immunization and different animal species and strains mirror different aspects of the neuropathology of multiple sclerosis, such as inflammation, demyelination or axonal damage, and reflect different clinical courses. In all these models, the first immune reactions take place in lymph nodes from which immune cells migrate into the circulation and then to the central nervous system. Adoptive transfer of myelin-reactive T cells from these animals produces pathology and disease in the central nervous system of naïve healthy recipients. In the human disease, autoreactive T and B cells specific for a variety of central antigens are present in the immune repertoire. These cells appear to be activated in the periphery through a number of mechanisms which causes them to home to the central nervous system. Contact with the local immune circuitry of the brain stimulates clonal expansion of autoreactive T cells, initiating a cascade of immuno-inflammatory events in situ. Numerous ways of disrupting this complex sequence of events, either by non-specific immunosuppression or by targeting specific checkpoints, abrogate or ameliorate disease in animal models. All approved disease-modifying drugs have an impact on components of the systemic immune compartment. All have been shown to reduce the number of gadolinium-enhancing T1 lesions observed with magnetic resonance imaging, an index of acute inflammatory invasion of the central nervous system.
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- Hans-Peter Hartung
- Neurologische Klinik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Okuda Y, Okuda M, Apatoff BR, Posnett DN. The activation of memory CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neurol Sci 2005; 235:11-7. [PMID: 15972217 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2004] [Revised: 02/21/2005] [Accepted: 02/22/2005] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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To reevaluate whether an association exists between the clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the activation of memory T cells, we investigated the phenotype of T cells in peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with MS using five-color flow cytometry. A cross-sectional study with 39 relapsing-remitting MS patients demonstrated that the percentage of CD25(+)CD45RO(+)CD4(+)CD3(+) cells was significantly increased in peripheral blood as well as in CSF of active MS patients compared with inactive MS patients. A longitudinal study with 11 relapsing-remitting MS patients also showed a higher percentage of CD25(+)CD45RO(+)CD4(+)CD3(+) cells in peripheral blood at the phase of exacerbation than during remission. On the other hand, regardless of the disease activity, the percentage of CD25(+)CD45RO(+)CD8(+)CD3(+) cells in peripheral blood was significantly higher in patients with MS than in healthy control subjects. A lower percentage of CD25(+)CD45RO(+)CD8(+)CD3(+) cells in CSF was observed in active MS patients compared with inactive MS patients. These results suggest that the activation of memory CD4(+) T cells is associated with the exacerbation of MS and activation of memory CD8(+) T cells reflects systemic immunological dysregulation in MS patients. Transient as well as continuous activation of T cells by recall antigens may be involved in the disease course of MS.
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- Yoshinobu Okuda
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Pryce G, O'Neill JK, Croxford JL, Amor S, Hankey DJ, East E, Giovannoni G, Baker D. Autoimmune tolerance eliminates relapses but fails to halt progression in a model of multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2005; 165:41-52. [PMID: 15939483 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2005.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2005] [Accepted: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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To date there has been poor translation of immunotherapies from rodent models to treatment of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). In the robust, relapsing Biozzi ABH mouse model of MS, using a combination of a transient deletion of T cells followed by intravenous (i.v.) myelin antigen administration, established relapsing disease in EAE can be effectively silenced. However, when treatment was initiated in late stage chronic-relapsing disease, despite inhibition of further relapses, mice demonstrated evidence of disease progression shown by a deterioration in mobility and development of spasticity and indicates that targeting relapsing, immunological components of MS alone is unlikely to be sufficient to control progression in the late stages of MS.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/administration & dosage
- CD4 Antigens/immunology
- Chronic Disease
- Disease Models, Animal
- Disease Progression
- Drug Therapy, Combination
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/prevention & control
- Immune Tolerance/immunology
- Injections, Intravenous
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Mice
- Mice, Biozzi
- Mice, SCID
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/prevention & control
- Myelin Proteolipid Protein/administration & dosage
- Myelin Proteolipid Protein/immunology
- Secondary Prevention
- Spinal Cord/cytology
- Spinal Cord/immunology
- Spinal Cord/transplantation
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/transplantation
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- Gareth Pryce
- Department of Neuroinflammation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 1 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PJ, UK
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Shao H, Peng Y, Liao T, Wang M, Song M, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. A shared epitope of the interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein recognized by the CD4+ and CD8+ autoreactive T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2005; 175:1851-7. [PMID: 16034128 PMCID: PMC4219322 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.3.1851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We previously demonstrated that cultures of rat uveitogenic T cells rapidly become dominated by CD4+ cells, but activation of CD8+ autoreactive T cells also occurred during the in vitro culture of in vivo-primed T cells. In the present study, we show that the commonly used uveitogenic peptide, interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) 1-20, generated both CD4+ and CD8+ autoreactive T cells in the C57BL/6 (B6) mouse and that this 20-mer contains at least two distinct antigenic epitopes. To determine whether the CD8 response was Ag-specific and whether CD4+ and CD8+ IRBP1-20-specific T cells recognize distinct antigenic epitopes, we prepared highly purified CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from IRBP1-20-primed mice and tested their proliferative response to a large panel of truncated peptides derived from IRBP1-20. The results showed that both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells recognized the same spectrum of peptides. In addition, peptides P10-18 were found to bind effectively to CD8+ IRBP1-20-specific T cells when complexed with recombinant H-2K(b) and also stimulate the proliferation and cytokine production of CD4+ IRBP1-20-specific T cells. Our results document for the first time that CD8+ and CD4+ autoreactive T cells display characteristic epitope recognition and they both recognize the same core epitope.
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- Hui Shao
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202
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Linker RA, Rott E, Hofstetter HH, Hanke T, Toyka KV, Gold R. EAE in beta-2 microglobulin-deficient mice: axonal damage is not dependent on MHC-I restricted immune responses. Neurobiol Dis 2005; 19:218-28. [PMID: 15837577 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2004.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2004] [Revised: 12/06/2004] [Accepted: 12/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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There is accumulating evidence that CD8-positive (CD8+) T-cells and MHC-I expression may also play a role in neurodegeneration associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). We investigated the role of MHC-I and CD8+ T-cells by studying experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in beta-2 microglobulin knockout mice induced by myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) peptide 35-55 or whole rat myelin basic protein (rMBP). For both encephalitogens and even after reconstitution of the immune system with MHC-I-positive bone marrow and transfer of mature CD8+ T-cells (iMHC-I+ CD8+ beta2m-/- mice), the disease course in beta2m-/- mice was significantly more severe with a 10-fold increased mortality in the beta2m-/- mice as compared to wild-type C57BL/6 mice. EAE in beta2m-/- mice caused more severe demyelination after immunization with MOG than with rMBP and axonal damage was more marked with rMBP as well as MOG even in iMHC-I+ CD8+ beta2m-/- mice. Immunocytochemical analysis of spinal cord tissue revealed a significant increase in macrophage and microglia infiltration in beta2m-/- and iMHC-I+ CD8+ beta2m-/- mice. The different pattern of T-cell infiltration was underscored by a 2.5-fold increase in CD4-positive (CD4+) T-cells in beta2m-/- mice after induction of MOG 35-55 EAE. We conclude that lack of functional MHC-I molecules and CD8+ T-cells aggravates autoimmune tissue destruction in the CNS. Enhanced axonal damage speaks for pathways of tissue damage independent of CD8+ T-cells and neuronal MHC-I expression.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Axons/immunology
- Axons/metabolism
- Axons/pathology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/metabolism
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- beta 2-Microglobulin/deficiency
- beta 2-Microglobulin/genetics
- beta 2-Microglobulin/physiology
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- Ralf A Linker
- Department of Neurology, Clinical Research Group for Multiple Sclerosis, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, D-97080 Würzburg, Germany
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) develops in young adults with a complex predisposing genetic trait and probably requires an inciting environmental insult such as a viral infection to trigger the disease. The activation of CD4+ autoreactive T cells and their differentiation into a Th1 phenotype are a crucial events in the initial steps, and these cells are probably also important players in the long-term evolution of the disease. Damage of the target tissue, the central nervous system, is, however, most likely mediated by other components of the immune system, such as antibodies, complement, CD8+ T cells, and factors produced by innate immune cells. Perturbations in immunomodulatory networks that include Th2 cells, regulatory CD4+ T cells, NK cells, and others may in part be responsible for the relapsing-remitting or chronic progressive nature of the disease. However, an important paradigmatic shift in the study of MS has occurred in the past decade. It is now clear that MS is not just a disease of the immune system, but that factors contributed by the central nervous system are equally important and must be considered in the future.
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- Mireia Sospedra
- Cellular Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1400, USA.
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Friese MA, Fugger L. Autoreactive CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis: a new target for therapy? Brain 2005; 128:1747-63. [PMID: 15975943 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Multiple sclerosis afflicts more than 1 million individuals worldwide and is widely considered to be an autoimmune disease. Traditionally, CD4(+) T helper cells have almost exclusively been held responsible for its immunopathogenesis, partly because certain MHC class II alleles clearly predispose for developing multiple sclerosis and also, because of their importance in inducing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), the animal model for multiple sclerosis. However, several strategies that target CD4(+) T cells beneficially in EAE have failed to ameliorate disease activity in multiple sclerosis, and some have even triggered exacerbations. Recently, the potential importance of CD8(+) T cells has begun to emerge. Physiologically, CD8(+) T cells are essential for detecting and eliminating abnormal cells, whether infected or neoplastic. In multiple sclerosis, genetic associations with MHC class I alleles have now been established, and CD8(+) as well as CD4(+) T cells have been found to invade and clonally expand in inflammatory central nervous system plaques. Recent animal models induced by CD8(+) T cells show interesting similarities to multiple sclerosis, in particular, in lesion distribution (more inflammation in the brain relative to the spinal cord), although not all of the features of the human disease are recapitulated. Here we outline the arguments for a possible role for CD8(+) T cells, a lymphocyte subset that has long been underrated in multiple sclerosis and should now be considered in new therapeutic approaches.
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- Manuel A Friese
- MRC Human Immunology Unit and Department of Clinical Neurology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK
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Bradl M, Bauer J, Flügel A, Wekerle H, Lassmann H. Complementary contribution of CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes to T-cell infiltration of the intact and the degenerative spinal cord. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2005; 166:1441-50. [PMID: 15855644 PMCID: PMC1606398 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)62361-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The central role of T cells in inflammatory reactions of the central nervous system (CNS) is well documented. However, there is little information about the few T cells found within the noninflamed CNS. In particular, the contribution of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells to the lymphocyte pool infiltrating the intact CNS, the location of these cells in CNS white and gray matter, and changes in the cellular composition of T-cell infiltrates coinciding with degeneration are primarily undefined. To address these points, we studied T cells in the intact and degenerative rat spinal cord. In the intact spinal cord, T cells were preferentially located within the gray matter. CD8+ T cells were more numerous than CD4+ lymphocytes. In cases of neuroaxonal degeneration or myelin degeneration/oligodendrocyte death, T cells were predominantly seen in areas of degeneration and were present in increased numbers. These effects were more pronounced for the CD4+ than for the CD8+ T-cell subset. Collectively, these data provide evidence for a clear cellular and compartmental bias in T-cell infiltration of the intact and degenerative spinal cord. This could indicate that CD4+ and CD8+ T cells might fulfill complementary roles in the intact and the diseased organ.
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- Monika Bradl
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Brain Research Institute, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Zehntner SP, Brickman C, Bourbonnière L, Remington L, Caruso M, Owens T. Neutrophils that infiltrate the central nervous system regulate T cell responses. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:5124-31. [PMID: 15814744 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.8.5124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Regulation of inflammatory responses is critical to progression of organ-specific autoimmune disease. Although many candidate cell types have been identified, immunoregulatory activity has rarely been directly assayed and never from the CNS. We have analyzed the regulatory capability of Gr-1high neutrophils isolated from the CNS of mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Proportions of neutrophils were markedly increased in the CNS of IFN-gamma-deficient mice. Strikingly, CNS-derived neutrophils, whether or not they derived from IFN-gamma-deficient mice, were potent suppressors of T cell responses to myelin or adjuvant Ags. Neutrophil suppressor activity was absolutely dependent on IFN-gamma production by target T cells, and suppression was abrogated by blocking NO synthase. These data identify an immunoregulatory capacity for neutrophils, and indicate that interplay between IFN-gamma, NO, and activated Gr-1high neutrophils within the target organ determines the outcome of inflammatory and potentially autoimmune T cell responses.
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- Simone P Zehntner
- Neuroimmunology Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Kurkowska-Jastrzebska I, Bałkowiec-Iskra E, Joniec I, Litwin T, Członkowski A, Członkowska A. Immunization with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein and complete Freund adjuvant partially protects dopaminergic neurons from 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-induced damage in mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience 2005; 131:247-54. [PMID: 15680707 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The concept of neuroprotective immunity identifies a new role of autoimmune cells in the CNS pathology. Specifically, immune cells infiltrating the CNS during an injury may help in a regeneration process and prevent the secondary degeneration of neurons. The objectives of our study were to determine the role of autoimmune and peripheral immune enhancement in neurodegeneration process, and to compare the results between young adult and aging animals. C57Bl mice were immunized with either myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) 35-55 combined with complete Freund adjuvant (CFA), or CFA alone. Following 6 days, the animals were injected with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine to produce a damage of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. Although immunization with MOG 35-55 combined with CFA resulted in autoimmune encephalomyelosis, it substantially enhanced neuronal survival after the toxic insult. The immunization with CFA alone was also effective in preventing neuronal cell death, but the magnitude of the neuroprotective effect was smaller. Interestingly, the neuroprotective effect of MOG 35-55 and CFA was more pronounced in aging (i.e. 10-month-old) compared with young (i.e. 2-month-old) mice. Our results indicate that an increased immune activation may be beneficial for neurodegenerative processes following the CNS injury, but the mechanisms of such immune neuroprotection and of age differences need further investigation.
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- I Kurkowska-Jastrzebska
- Second Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 9, 02-957 Warsaw, Poland
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Raivich G, Banati R. Brain microglia and blood-derived macrophages: molecular profiles and functional roles in multiple sclerosis and animal models of autoimmune demyelinating disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 46:261-81. [PMID: 15571769 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2004.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/01/2004] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Microglia and macrophages, one a brain-resident, the other a mostly hematogenous cell type, represent two related cell types involved in the brain pathology in multiple sclerosis and its autoimmune animal model, the experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. Together, they perform a variety of different functions: they are the primary sensors of brain pathology, they are rapidly recruited to sites of infection, trauma or autoimmune inflammation in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis and they are competent presenters of antigen and interact with T cells recruited to the inflamed CNS. They also synthesise a variety of molecules, such as cytokines (TNF, interleukins), chemokines, accessory molecules (B7, CD40), complement, cell adhesion glycoproteins (integrins, selectins), reactive oxygen radicals and neurotrophins, that could exert a damaging or a protective effect on adjacent axons, myelin and oligodendrocytes. The current review will give a detailed summary on their cellular response, describe the different classes of molecules expressed and their attribution to the blood derived or brain-resident macrophages and then discuss how these molecules contribute to the neuropathology. Recent advances using chimaeric and genetically modified mice have been particularly telling about the specific, overlapping and nonoverlapping roles of macrophages and microglia in the demyelinating disease. Interestingly, they point to a crucial role of hematogenous macrophages in initiating inflammation and myelin removal, and that of microglia in checking excessive response and in the induction and maintenance of remission.
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- Gennadij Raivich
- Department of Anatomy, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Perinatal Brain Repair Centre, University College London, Chenies Mews 86-96 WC1E 6HX London, UK.
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Battistini L, Caccamo N, Borsellino G, Meraviglia S, Angelini DF, Dieli F, Cencioni MT, Salerno A. Homing and memory patterns of human γδ T cells in physiopathological situations. Microbes Infect 2005; 7:510-7. [PMID: 15804491 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2004.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2004] [Accepted: 12/14/2004] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Vgamma9Vdelta2 are a heterogeneous population of T cells and comprise distinct naive, memory and effector populations that can be distinguished on the basis of surface marker expression and effector functions. We review here these recently studied features of Vgamma9Vdelta2 T lymphocyte biology and the roles they play in infectious and autoimmune diseases.
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- Luca Battistini
- Neuroimmunology Unit, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, 00179 Rome, Italy
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Lymphocytic hypophysitis (LYH) is a pituitary disease which can cause headache, changes in visual field and pituitary dysfunction. The clinical, histopathological and morphological findings and its association with other autoimmune disorders allow LYH to be included among the autoimmune diseases. Pituitary trans-sphenoidal biopsy is thought to be the diagnostic gold standard for LYH, even if some morphological findings on hypothalamic-pituitary magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can suggest the occurrence of this disease. Despite the fact that organ-specific antibodies are good markers of many autoimmune endocrine diseases, the pathogenetic and diagnostic roles of anti-pituitary antibodies (APAs) in LYH are still under discussion. In fact, several methods have been used to detect APAs, but the conflicting results from different methods have impaired the clinical relevance of these antibodies. Recently, APAs have been detected by an immunofluorescence method in patients with selective idiopathic hypopituitarism (particularly in those with growth-hormone deficiency) and in adults with autoimmune endocrine diseases. The results suggest that only when they are present at high titres may they be considered a good marker of pituitary involvement, and in particular of growth-hormone-producing cells.
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- Annamaria De Bellis
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine and Surgery, F. Magrassi, A. Lanzara, Second University of Naples, Via Pansini N. 5, Napoli 80131, Italy.
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Montero E, Nussbaum G, Kaye JF, Perez R, Lage A, Ben-Nun A, Cohen IR. Regulation of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by CD4+, CD25+ and CD8+ T cells: analysis using depleting antibodies. J Autoimmun 2005; 23:1-7. [PMID: 15236747 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2004.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2004] [Revised: 04/13/2004] [Accepted: 05/12/2004] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) can be induced in mice of the C57BL/6 strain by subcutaneous immunization with myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) peptide p35-55 in CFA, administered twice at an interval of one week and supplemented with Bordetella pertussis toxin given IV. Here, we studied the effect on the induction of EAE of depleting antibodies to CD4, CD8, or CD25 administered before either the first or the second dose of MOG p35-55. We found that anti-CD4 abolished EAE when given before the first immunization; anti-CD4 did not affect the disease when it was given before the second immunization. Anti-CD8 enhanced EAE induction when given before either of the two immunizations. Anti-CD25 enhanced EAE to the same degree as anti-CD8 when given before the first immunization, but anti-CD25 was even more effective in enhancing EAE when given before the second immunization. The anti-CD25 treatment led to significantly enhanced IFNgamma production by T cells responding to MOG p35-55 and persisting anti-MOG antibodies detectable 56 days after the first immunization. Administration of anti-CD8 or anti-CD25 abolished the need for pertussis toxin to induce EAE. These findings are compatible with the idea that CD4 T cells are required for the initial induction of EAE and that the disease is down-regulated by T cells expressing CD8 or CD25. These regulatory T cells exist prior to MOG immunization, but the CD25+ regulators appear to be further amplified by immunization.
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Role of Microglia and Macrophages in Eae. EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 2005. [PMCID: PMC7120081 DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25518-4_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Microglia and macrophages are related cell types that play an important role in the pathogenesis of MS and EAE. This chapters reviews the role of these cells in the normal brain and their contribution to inflammatory demyelinating disease, including their role in antigen presentation, co-stimulation, and production of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators
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Ford ML, Evavold BD. Specificity, magnitude, and kinetics of MOG-specific CD8+ T?cell responses during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Eur J Immunol 2005; 35:76-85. [PMID: 15593305 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) has traditionally been thought to be almost exclusively mediated by CD4(+) effector T cells. Here, we provide evidence for the existence of mouse CD8(+) T cells that are specific for an epitope of the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG). Using a panel of truncated MOG peptides, we have identified the minimal epitope recognized by these T cells as MOG 37-46. This peptide, while possessing relatively low affinity for H-2D(b), efficiently stimulates IFN-gamma production from MOG-specific CD8(+) T cell lines in vitro and induces EAE in vivo. To further characterize the magnitude and kinetics of expansion of the MOG-specific CD8(+) T cell population in vivo, we used MOG 37-50/H-2D(b) MHC tetramers to visualize MOG-specific CD8(+) effectors in the peripheral lymphoid organs and central nervous system during the course of EAE induction and progression. Our results identify MOG-specific CD8(+) T cells in the central nervous system prior to and after the onset of disease, suggesting that CD8(+) T cells are a possible target for therapeutic intervention during EAE.
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- Mandy L Ford
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Karlsson J, Johannesson M, Lindvall T, Wernhoff P, Holmdahl R, Andersson A. Genetic Interactions in Eae2 Control Collagen-Induced Arthritis and the CD4+/CD8+ T Cell Ratio. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 174:533-41. [PMID: 15611280 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.1.533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The Eae2 locus on mouse chromosome 15 controls the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE); however, in this study we show that it also controls collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). To find the smallest disease-controlling locus/loci within Eae2, we have studied development of CIA in 676 mice from a partially advanced intercross. Eae2 congenic mice were bred with mice congenic for the Eae3/Cia5 locus on chromosome 3, previously shown to interact with Eae2. To create a large number of genetic recombinations within the congenic fragments, the offspring were intercrossed, and the eight subsequent generations were analyzed for CIA. We found that Eae2 consists of four Cia subloci (Cia26, Cia30, Cia31, and Cia32), of which two interacted with each other, conferring severe CIA. Genes within the other two loci independently interacted with genes in Eae3/Cia5. Investigation of the CD4/CD8 T cell ratio in mice from the partially advanced intercross shows that this trait is linked to one of the Eae2 subloci through interactions with Eae3/Cia5. Furthermore, the expression of CD86 on stimulated macrophages is linked to Eae2.
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- Jenny Karlsson
- Medical Inflammation Research, Biomedical Center I11, Lund University, S-221 84 Lund, Sweden
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Hohlfeld R, Wekerle H. Autoimmune concepts of multiple sclerosis as a basis for selective immunotherapy: from pipe dreams to (therapeutic) pipelines. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101 Suppl 2:14599-606. [PMID: 15306684 PMCID: PMC521993 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0404874101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Autoimmune T and B cell responses to CNS antigen(s) are thought to drive the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), and thus are logical targets for therapy. Indeed, several immunomodulatory agents, including IFN-beta 1b, IFN-beta 1a, glatiramer acetate, and mitoxantrone, have had beneficial clinical effects in different forms of MS. However, because the available treatments are only partially effective, MS therapy needs to be further improved. Selective (antigen-specific) immunotherapies are especially appealing because in theory they combine maximal efficacy with minimal side effects. Indeed, several innovative immunotherapies have been successfully applied in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. For example, autoreactive T cells can be selectively targeted by means of antigen, T cell receptor, or activation markers. However, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis is far from being a perfect approximation of MS because MS is more heterogeneous and the target antigen(s) is (are) not known. Further advances in MS therapy will depend on our growing understanding of the pathogenesis of this still incurable disease.
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- Reinhard Hohlfeld
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.
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Shao H, Sun SL, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. Characterization of rat CD8+ uveitogenic T cells specific for interphotoreceptor retinal-binding protein 1177-1191. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:2849-54. [PMID: 15295004 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.4.2849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The uveitogenic T cells that mediate experimental autoimmune uveitis are commonly assumed to be exclusively CD4(+). In the present study, we showed that, although a panel of long-term cultured rat uveitogenic T cell lines specific for the interphotoreceptor retinal-binding protein peptide, R16, all expressed CD4, approximately 40% of the R16-specific uveitogenic T cells freshly prepared from Ag-immunized rats were CD8(+)alphabetaTCR(+), as demonstrated by CFSE staining. We showed that the expansion of these CD8(+)alphabetaTCR(+) T cells was Ag-specific and that highly purified CD8(+) R16-specific T cells were able to induce uveitis on transfusion into naive rats. Moreover, CD8(+) uveitogenic T cells more readily switched phenotype from, and to, TCR(-)CD8(-)CD4(-) during in vivo or in vitro activation compared with their CD4(+) counterparts. In a previous study, we showed that highly purified CD8(+) myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-specific T cells induced more severe autoimmune encephalomyelitis than the corresponding CD4(+) T cells. In this study, we show that an interphotoreceptor retinal-binding protein peptide consistently activated a high proportion of CD8(+)alphabetaTCR(+) T cells, which were uveitogenic in Lewis rats.
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- Hui Shao
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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Iruretagoyena MI, Tobar JA, González PA, Sepúlveda SE, Figueroa CA, Burgos RA, Hancke JL, Kalergis AM. Andrographolide interferes with T cell activation and reduces experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in the mouse. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2004; 312:366-72. [PMID: 15331658 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.104.072512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Andrographolide is a bicyclic diterpenoid lactone derived from extracts of Andrographis paniculata, a plant indigenous to South Asian countries that shows anti-inflammatory properties. The molecular and cellular bases for this immunomodulatory capacity remain unknown. Here, we show that andrographolide is able to down-modulate both humoral and cellular adaptive immune responses. In vitro, this molecule was able to interfere with T cell proliferation and cytokine release in response to allogenic stimulation. These results were consistent with the observation that T cell activation by dendritic cells (DCs) was completely abolished by exposing DCs to andrographolide during antigen pulse. This molecule was able to interfere with maturation of DCs and with their ability to present antigens to T cells. Furthermore, in vivo immune responses such as antibody response to a thymus-dependent antigen and delayed-type hypersensitivity were drastically diminished in mice by andrographolide treatment. Finally, the ability of andrographolide to inhibit T cell activation was applied to interfere with the onset of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that is primarily mediated by CD4(+) T cells and serves as an animal model for human multiple sclerosis. Treatment with andrographolide was able to significantly reduce EAE symptoms in mice by inhibiting T cell and antibody responses directed to myelin antigens. Our data suggest that andrographolide is able to efficiently block T cell activation in vitro, as well as in vivo, a feature that could be useful for interfering with detrimental T cell responses.
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- Mirentxu I Iruretagoyena
- Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile
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Martin SF, Dudda JC, Delattre V, Bachtanian E, Leicht C, Burger B, Weltzien HU, Simon JC. Fas-Mediated Inhibition of CD4+ T Cell Priming Results in Dominance of Type 1 CD8+ T Cells in the Immune Response to the Contact Sensitizer Trinitrophenyl. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:3178-85. [PMID: 15322178 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.5.3178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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One of the unusual properties of chemically reactive haptens is their capacity to simultaneously generate immunogenic determinants for hapten-specific CD8(+) and CD4(+) T cells. Surprisingly, however, a clear dominance of CD8(+) effector T cells is observed in murine contact hypersensitivity to various haptens and upon T cell priming with hapten-modified APCs in vitro. In this study we show that trinitrophenyl-specific CD8(+) T cells actively prevent CD4(+) T cell priming in vitro. This process requires cell-cell contact and is dependent on the expression of Fas on the CD4(+) T cells. Our results reveal an important Fas-dependent mechanism for the regulation of hapten-specific CD4(+) T cell responses by CD8(+) T cells, which causes the dominance of CD8(+) effector T cells and the active suppression of a CD4(+) T cell response. Moreover, our demonstration of reduced contact hypersensitivity to trinitrophenyl in the absence of Fas, but not of perforin and/or granzymes A and B, underlines the important role of Fas as a pathogenetic factor for contact hypersensitivity.
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- Stefan F Martin
- Clinical Research Group Allergology, Department of Dermatology, University of Freiburg, Germany.
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Liñares D, Mañá P, Goodyear M, Chow AM, Clavarino C, Huntington ND, Barnett L, Koentgen F, Tomioka R, Bernard CCA, Freire-Garabal M, Reid HH. The magnitude and encephalogenic potential of autoimmune response to MOG is enhanced in MOG deficient mice. J Autoimmun 2004; 21:339-51. [PMID: 14624757 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2003.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is a minor component of central nervous system myelin presumably implicated in the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Immunization with MOG leads to the development of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE), the experimental model of MS. It has been suggested that its encephalitogenic potential may be due to the lack of MOG self-immune tolerance. To clarify this, we have generated a MOG deficient mouse (MOG(-/-)) strain. Surprisingly, MOG(35-55)specific proliferation and Th1-type cytokine production were markedly enhanced in MOG(-/-)mice compared to wild type control. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of MOG(35-55)specific T cells, isolated from MOG deficient mice, into wild-type recipients resulted in the development of a more severe disease, indicating a high capacity of MOG(-/-)T cells to initiate effector responses. Interestingly, T cell reactivity to overlapping MOG peptides in MOG(-/-)mice did not reveal new potential immunodominant epitopes in H-2(b)mice. Taken together, our data suggests that MOG self-tolerance modulates the encephalitogenic potential of autoreactive MOG T cells in the periphery.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Autoimmunity/immunology
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines/metabolism
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/metabolism
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/physiopathology
- Gene Deletion
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Myelin Proteins/metabolism
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/deficiency
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/genetics
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/immunology
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/metabolism
- Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Spinal Cord/chemistry
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
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- David Liñares
- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia
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De Jersey J, Carmignac D, Le Tissier P, Barthlott T, Robinson I, Stockinger B. Factors affecting the susceptibility of the mouse pituitary gland to CD8 T-cell-mediated autoimmunity. Immunology 2004; 111:254-61. [PMID: 15009425 PMCID: PMC1782418 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2004.01821.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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We have previously shown, in a transgenic mouse model, that the pituitary gland is susceptible to CD8 T-cell-mediated autoimmunity, triggered by a cell-specific model autoantigen, resulting in pan-anterior pituitary hypophysitis and dwarfism. In the present study, we now demonstrate that antigen dose, the T-cell precursor frequency, the degree of lymphopenia and the context of target antigen expression, are important parameters determining the time course and extent of the pathological consequences of CD8 T-cell-mediated autoimmunity. Furthermore, our data indicate that the pituitary gland is susceptible to CD8 autoimmunity following an inflammatory insult such as a viral infection. As lymphocytic hypophysitis may be manifest in other autoimmune conditions, and the pituitary gland may be susceptible to T-cell-mediated pathology after immunization with a virus expressing soluble pituitary antigen, it is important to consider that strategies based on vaccination against soluble pituitary gonadotrophins could have other unexpected endocrine consequences.
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- James De Jersey
- Division of Molecular Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
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Lassmann H, Ransohoff RM. The CD4-Th1 model for multiple sclerosis: a critical [correction of crucial] re-appraisal. Trends Immunol 2004; 25:132-7. [PMID: 15036040 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2004.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Hans Lassmann
- Division of Neuroimmunology, Brain Research Institute, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Skulina C, Schmidt S, Dornmair K, Babbe H, Roers A, Rajewsky K, Wekerle H, Hohlfeld R, Goebels N. Multiple sclerosis: brain-infiltrating CD8+ T cells persist as clonal expansions in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:2428-33. [PMID: 14983026 PMCID: PMC356967 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0308689100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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We surveyed the T cell receptor repertoire in three separate compartments (brain, cerebrospinal fluid, and blood) of two multiple sclerosis patients who initially had diagnostic brain biopsies to clarify their unusual clinical presentation but were subsequently confirmed to have typical multiple sclerosis. One of the brain biopsy specimens had been previously investigated by microdissection and single-cell PCR to determine the clonal composition of brain-infiltrating T cells at the single-cell level. Using complementarity-determining region 3 spectratyping, we identified several identical, expanded CD8+ (but not CD4+) T cell clones in all three compartments. Some of the expanded CD8+ T cells also occurred in sorted CD38+ blood cells, suggesting that they were activated. Strikingly, some of the brain-infiltrating CD8+ T cell clones persisted for >5 years in the cerebrospinal fluid and/or blood and may thus contribute to the progression of the disease.
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- Christian Skulina
- Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, 81377 Munich, Germany
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Ekerfelt C, Jarefors S, Tynngård N, Hedlund M, Sander B, Bergström S, Forsberg P, Ernerudh J. Phenotypes indicating cytolytic properties of Borrelia-specific interferon-gamma secreting cells in chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis. J Neuroimmunol 2004; 145:115-26. [PMID: 14644037 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2003.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The immuno-pathogenetic mechanisms underlying chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis are mainly unknown. Human Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) infection is associated with Bb-specific secretion of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), which may be important for the elimination of Bb, but this may also cause tissue injury. In order to increase the understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms in chronic neuroborreliosis, we investigated which cell types that secrete IFN-gamma. Blood mononuclear cells from 13 patients with neuroborreliosis and/or acrodermatitis chronicum atrophicans were stimulated with Bb antigen and the phenotypes of the induced IFN-gamma-secreting cells were analyzed with three different approaches. Cells expressing CD8 or TCRgammadelta, which both have cytolytic properties, were the main phenotypes of IFN-gamma-secreting cells, indicating that tissue injury in chronic neuroborreliosis may be mediated by cytotoxic cells.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Antibodies, Blocking/pharmacology
- Antigens, CD1/immunology
- Antigens, CD1d
- Borrelia burgdorferi/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/chemistry
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD56 Antigen/analysis
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/chemistry
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Chronic Disease
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- Glycoproteins/immunology
- HLA Antigens/immunology
- Humans
- Immunomagnetic Separation
- Immunophenotyping
- Interferon-gamma/analysis
- Interferon-gamma/metabolism
- Intracellular Fluid/chemistry
- Intracellular Fluid/immunology
- Intracellular Fluid/microbiology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/chemistry
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/immunology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism
- Lyme Neuroborreliosis/immunology
- Lyme Neuroborreliosis/metabolism
- Lyme Neuroborreliosis/microbiology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Staining and Labeling
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- C Ekerfelt
- Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden.
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Crawford MP, Yan SX, Ortega SB, Mehta RS, Hewitt RE, Price DA, Stastny P, Douek DC, Koup RA, Racke MK, Karandikar NJ. High prevalence of autoreactive, neuroantigen-specific CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis revealed by novel flow cytometric assay. Blood 2004; 103:4222-31. [PMID: 14976054 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-11-4025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) with features suggestive of T-cell-mediated pathology. Most prior reports have focused on CD4(+) T cells with the underlying assumption that MS is predominantly a CD4(+) T helper 1 (Th1)-mediated disease. In this report, we used a novel flow cytometric approach to evaluate autoreactive T-cell responses against a large variety of neuroantigenic targets. We found that both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells targeted against several CNS autoantigens were widely prevalent in patients with MS and healthy individuals. Whereas the distribution of CD4(+) responses was similar in different groups, patients with relapsing-remitting MS showed a higher proportion of CNS-specific CD8(+) responses. Autoreactive CD4(+) T cells from patients with MS exhibited a more differentiated Th1 phenotype compared with healthy subjects. Similarly, CNS-specific CD8(+) T-cell responses from patients with MS were functionally distinct from those in healthy individuals. Collectively, these studies reveal the high prevalence of class I-restricted autoreactive CD8(+) T-cell responses in MS that has been underappreciated thus far. The results emphasize the need to evaluate both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell responses in MS and to make both subsets a consideration in the development of novel therapeutic strategies.
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- Michael P Crawford
- Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9072, USA
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system. It is believed to be an autoimmune disease arising from a breakdown of immune tolerance in T cells specific for myelin antigens. The heterogeneity in clinical signs and pathology observed in MS patients suggests a complex pathogenesis in which the specificity of the pathogenic T cells and the tolerance mechanisms that are compromised vary among individual patients. In this review, we summarize some of the features of the diverse immune pathology observed in MS and the animal models used to study this disease. We then describe the current state of knowledge regarding the expression of the major myelin protein antigens believed to be targeted in MS and the mechanisms of immune tolerance that operate on T cells that recognize these antigens.
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- Audrey Seamons
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98125, USA
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Shao H, Lei S, Sun SL, Xiang J, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. CpG-containing oligodeoxynucleotide 1826 converts the weak uveitogenic rat interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein peptide 1181-1191 into a strong uveitogen. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 171:4780-5. [PMID: 14568955 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.9.4780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Aberrant activation of autoreactive T cells is one of the major causes of autoimmune disease. Autoantigens are sequestered and in many cases weak immunogens. For example, in experimental autoimmune uveitis, immunization of naive rats with autologous interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) fails to induce intraocular inflammation or a strong T cell response, whereas bovine IRBP is a strong inducer of experimental autoimmune uveitis. Such observations challenge the view that the autoantigen alone is responsible for the development of autoimmunity. Here, we demonstrate that autologous rat IRBP is converted to a strong immunogen in the presence of a small dose of CpG-containing oligodeoxynucleotides. Our results indicate that specific CpG-containing oligodeoxynucleotides may play an important role in the activation and expansion of autoreactive T cells in vivo, leading to autoimmune disease.
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- Hui Shao
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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Killestein J, Eikelenboom MJ, Izeboud T, Kalkers NF, Adèr HJ, Barkhof F, Van Lier RAW, Uitdehaag BMJ, Polman CH. Cytokine producing CD8+ T cells are correlated to MRI features of tissue destruction in MS. J Neuroimmunol 2004; 142:141-8. [PMID: 14512173 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(03)00265-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Specific T-cell subsets and their ability to produce cytokines have been involved in concepts of multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis. Evidence to link cytokine producing T-cell subsets to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of tissue destruction, however, is limited. Cytokine flow cytometry was performed in 124 patients with different subtypes of MS. In a subgroup of 69 patients, from whom longitudinal MRI was available, the ability of circulating types 1 and 2 helper T cells to produce cytokines was correlated to changes in T1 hypointense and T2 hyperintense lesion load (LL) on brain MRI during 3 years of follow-up. Significant negative correlations were found between baseline CD8(+) T-cell subsets producing IL-2, IL-4 or IL-13 and the change in T1 LL. Subgroup analyses demonstrated that in RRMS, CD8(+) T cells producing IL-2, IL-4 or IL-13, and in PPMS, CD8(+) IL-10(+) T cells correlated negatively with T1 LL. To our knowledge, this study provides the first direct immunophenotypic evidence of cytokine producing CD8(+) T cells being directly related to long-term development of MRI features of demyelination and axonal loss.
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- Joep Killestein
- Department of Neurology, VU Medical Centre, P.O. Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Forrester JV, Cornall RJ. Tolerance and autoimmunity in the eye: a role for CD8 T cells in organ-specific autoimmunity in the retina. Immunology 2003; 110:293-5. [PMID: 14632655 PMCID: PMC1783052 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2003.01774.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Shao H, Lei S, Sun SL, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. Conversion of Monophasic to Recurrent Autoimmune Disease by Autoreactive T Cell Subsets. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 171:5624-30. [PMID: 14607971 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.10.5624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Autoimmune uveitis has been elicited in susceptible rodents by several ocular-specific Ags. In most of these animal models the induced uveitis is acute and monophasic. Because recurrent uveitis poses the highest risk for blinding ocular complications in human disease, a spontaneous relapsing animal model would be most helpful in understanding the disease pathogenesis. In our current study we have observed that the adoptive transfer of interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein residues 1177-1191-specific T cells to naive Lewis rats induced a chronic relapsing disease, in contrast to the monophasic disease induced by immunization with interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein residues 1177-1191 emulsified in CFA. The chronic relapsing uveitis induced by autoreactive T cell subsets is dependent on the number of autoreactive T cells generated as well as their activation status. Our study documented a spontaneous model of recurrent uveitis in the rat, which should assist us in the study of disease pathogenesis and the design of specific therapy.
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- Hui Shao
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
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Schroeter M, Stoll G, Weissert R, Hartung HP, Lassmann H, Jander S. CD8+ phagocyte recruitment in rat experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: association with inflammatory tissue destruction. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2003; 163:1517-24. [PMID: 14507658 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63508-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Increasing evidence suggests an important role of CD8(+) cells in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and its animal model experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). In our present study we analyzed the spatiotemporal expression pattern of the CD8 antigen in various rat EAE models characterized by a different extent of inflammation, demyelination, and axonal injury. Unexpectedly, in chronic demyelinating EAE induced by immunization against myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) the majority of CD8 immunoreactivity was expressed on ED1(+) microglia/macrophages whereas only limited CD8(+) T-cell infiltration was present. CD8(+) phagocyte recruitment was restricted to sites of severe inflammatory tissue destruction. Contrastingly, macrophages in a perivascular or submeningeal position and in secondarily degenerating fiber tracts were mostly CD8(-). CD8(+) phagocytes were absent in myelin basic protein-induced EAE characterized by a purely inflammatory pathology and lack of demyelination. Our data demonstrate significant heterogeneity of lesion-associated phagocytes in rat models of central nervous system autoimmune disease and suggest a specific role of CD8(+) microglia/macrophages in the pathogenesis of inflammatory tissue damage.
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- Michael Schroeter
- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Zehntner SP, Brisebois M, Tran E, Owens T, Fournier S. Constitutive expression of a costimulatory ligand on antigen-presenting cells in the nervous system drives demyelinating disease. FASEB J 2003; 17:1910-2. [PMID: 12923072 DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-0199fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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It has been proposed that the activation status of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) plays a significant role in the development of autoimmune disease. Whether expression of costimulatory ligands on tissue-resident APCs controls organ-specific autoimmune responses has not been tested. We here report that transgenic mice constitutively expressing the costimulatory ligand B7.2/CD86 on microglia in the central nervous system (CNS) and on related cells in the proximal peripheral nervous tissue spontaneously develop autoimmune demyelinating disease. Disease-affected nervous tissue in transgenic mice showed infiltration characterized by a predominance of CD8+ memory-effector T cells, as well as CD4+ T cells. Transgenic animals lacking alphabeta TCR+ T cells were completely resistant to disease development. Transgenic T cells induced disease when adoptively transferred into T cell-deficient B7.2 transgenic recipients but not into non-transgenic recipients. These data provide evidence that B7/CD28 interactions within the nervous tissue are critical determinants of disease development. Our findings have important implications for understanding the etiology of nervous system autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).
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- Simone P Zehntner
- Neuroimmunology Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Abdul-Majid KB, Wefer J, Stadelmann C, Stefferl A, Lassmann H, Olsson T, Harris RA. Comparing the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in CD4-/- and CD8-/- DBA/1 mice defines qualitative roles of different T cell subsets. J Neuroimmunol 2003; 141:10-9. [PMID: 12965249 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(03)00210-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) was induced with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG(1-125)) in CD4(-/-) and CD8(-/-) DBA/1 mice. Both gene-deleted mice developed clinical signs of EAE, albeit milder than in wild-type mice, suggesting that both CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells participate in disease development. Demyelination and inflammation in the central nervous system was reduced in the absence of CD8(+) T cells. Antibody depletion of CD4(+) cells completely protected CD8(-/-) mice from MOG-induced EAE while depletion of CD8(+) cells in CD4(-/-) mice resulted in fewer EAE incidence compared to that in control antibody-treated mice. Antibody depletion of CD4(+) cells in wild-type mice protected from EAE, but not depletion of CD8(+) cells, although demyelination was reduced on removal of CD8(+) T cells. Immunization with immunodominant MOG(79-96) peptide led to EAE only in the presence of pertussis toxin (PT) in the inoculum. PT also triggered an earlier onset and more severe EAE in CD8(-/-) mice. We interpret our findings such that in an ontogenic lack of CD4(+) T cells, EAE is mediated by CD8(+) and elevated levels of alphabetaCD4(-)CD8(-) cells, and that CNS damage is partly enacted by the activity of CD8(+) T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Autoantibodies/biosynthesis
- CD4 Antigens/genetics
- CD4 Antigens/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- CD8 Antigens/genetics
- CD8 Antigens/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Central Nervous System Diseases/genetics
- Central Nervous System Diseases/immunology
- Central Nervous System Diseases/pathology
- Demyelinating Diseases/prevention & control
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/prevention & control
- Female
- Gene Deletion
- Incidence
- Injections, Intradermal
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Lymphopenia/genetics
- Lymphopenia/immunology
- Lymphopenia/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Knockout
- Myelin Proteins
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/administration & dosage
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/immunology
- Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein
- Peptide Fragments/administration & dosage
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
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Hisahara S, Okano H, Miura M. Caspase-mediated oligodendrocyte cell death in the pathogenesis of autoimmune demyelination. Neurosci Res 2003; 46:387-97. [PMID: 12871760 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-0102(03)00127-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), are inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by localized areas of demyelination. MS is believed to be an autoimmune disorder mediated by activated immune cells such as T- and B-lymphocytes and macrophages/microglia. Lymphocytes are primed in the peripheral tissues by antigens, and clonally expanded cells infiltrate the CNS. They produce large amounts of inflammatory and cytokines that lead to demyelination and axonal degeneration. Although several studies have shown that oligodendrocytes (OLGs), the myelin-forming glial cells in the CNS, are sensitive to cell death stimuli, such as cytotoxic cytokines, anti-myelin antibodies, nitric oxide, and oxidative stress, in vitro, the mechanisms underlying injury to the OLGs in MS/EAE remain unclear. Transgenic mice that express the anti-apoptotic protein specifically in OLGs and caspase-11-deficient mice are significantly resistant to EAE induction. Histopathological analyses show that the number of caspase-activated OLGs and dead OLGs are reduced in the CNS of these mice. The numbers of infiltrating immune cells and the amounts of cytokines are also markedly reduced in EAE lesions. Therefore, caspase-mediated OLG death leads to the exacerbation of demyelination and the deterioration of neurological manifestations by inducing local inflammatory events.
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- Shin Hisahara
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, South 1 West 17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8556, Japan.
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Zamvil SS, Steinman L. Diverse targets for intervention during inflammatory and neurodegenerative phases of multiple sclerosis. Neuron 2003; 38:685-8. [PMID: 12797954 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(03)00326-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disease that causes relapsing and chronic neurologic impairment. Recent observations have altered certain traditional concepts regarding MS pathogenesis. A greater diversity of cell types and molecules involved in MS is now evident. While remyelination can occur during the early inflammatory phase when damage may be reversible, it is impaired in the later stages, which involve axonal death. These observations have important therapeutic implications.
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- Scott S Zamvil
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
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Baker D, Hankey DJR. Gene therapy in autoimmune, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Gene Ther 2003; 10:844-53. [PMID: 12732870 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS), where suspected autoimmune attack causes nerve demyelination and progressive neurodegeneration and should benefit from both anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective strategies. Although neuroprotection strategies are relatively unexplored in MS, systemic delivery of anti-inflammatory agents to people with MS has so far been relatively disappointing. This is most probably because of the limited capacity of these molecules to enter the target tissue, because of exclusion by the blood-brain barrier. The complex natural history of MS also means that any therapeutic agents will have to be administered long-term. Gene therapy offers the possibility of site-directed, long-term expression, and is currently being preclinically investigated in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of MS. While some immune effects may be targeted in the periphery using DNA vaccination, strategies both viral and nonviral are being developed to target agents into the CNS either via direct delivery or using the trafficking properties of cell-carrier systems. Targeting of leucocyte activation, cytokines and nerve growth factors have shown some promising benefit in animal EAE systems, the challenge will be their application in clinical use.
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- David Baker
- Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
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Djerbi M, Abdul-Majid KB, Abedi-Valugerdi M, Olsson T, Harris RA, Grandien A. Expression of the long form of human FLIP by retroviral gene transfer of hemopoietic stem cells exacerbates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:2064-73. [PMID: 12574377 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.4.2064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Subsidence of inflammation and clinical recovery in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is postulated to involve apoptosis of inflammatory cells. To test this concept, we examined the effects of overexpressing the long form of human FLICE-inhibitory protein, a potent inhibitor of death receptor-mediated apoptosis, in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced EAE in DBA/1 mice. We found that overexpression of the long form of human FLICE-inhibitory protein by retroviral gene transfer of hemopoietic stem cells led to a clinically more severe EAE in these mice compared with control mice receiving the retroviral vector alone. The exacerbated disease was evident by an enhanced and prolonged inflammatory reaction in the CNS of these animals compared with control mice. The acute phase of EAE was characterized by a massive infiltration of macrophages and granulocytes and a simultaneous increase in TNF-alpha production in the CNS. In the chronic phase of the disease, there was a prolonged inflammatory response in the form of persistent CD4(+) T and B cells in the CNS and a peripheral Th1 cytokine bias caused by elevated levels of IFN-gamma and reduced levels of IL-4 in the spleen. Our findings demonstrate that death receptor-mediated apoptosis can be important in the pathogenesis of EAE and further emphasize the need for effective apoptotic elimination of inflammatory cells to achieve disease remission.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/genetics
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/toxicity
- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis/immunology
- Bone Marrow Cells/immunology
- CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating Protein
- Carrier Proteins/biosynthesis
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/toxicity
- Cells, Cultured
- Central Nervous System/immunology
- Central Nervous System/metabolism
- Central Nervous System/pathology
- Chronic Disease
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Female
- Genetic Vectors
- Growth Inhibitors/genetics
- Growth Inhibitors/physiology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/adverse effects
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/methods
- Humans
- Inflammation/genetics
- Inflammation/immunology
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Myelin Proteins
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/administration & dosage
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/immunology
- Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein
- Protein Isoforms/biosynthesis
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/toxicity
- Retroviridae/genetics
- Retroviridae/immunology
- Stem Cells/immunology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
- Th1 Cells/metabolism
- Transduction, Genetic
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/biosynthesis
- fas Receptor/physiology
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- Mounira Djerbi
- Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, University of Stockholm, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Laudanna C, Constantin G. New models of intravital microscopy for analysis of chemokine receptor-mediated leukocyte vascular recognition. J Immunol Methods 2003; 273:115-23. [PMID: 12535802 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1759(02)00421-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Chemokines control selective targeting of circulating leukocytes to the microvasculature by triggering inside-out signal transduction pathways leading to integrin-dependent adhesion. Presently, a few examples of presentation of chemokines by the inner surface of blood vessels responsible for triggering leukocyte arrest are available. A complete pattern of chemokine expression and presentation by the endothelium in different tissues and in homeostatic versus inflammatory conditions is still lacking. This review describes a novel intravital microscopy model allowing visualization of cerebral vessels through the skull, and analysis of the interactions between different leukocyte subpopulations and the endothelium in brain superficial microvasculature of mice. It has been recently shown that inflamed brain endothelium expresses a combination of adhesion ligands and activating factor(s) for G(i)-linked receptors that together mediate lymphocyte recruitment, and that the combination of molecules involved in this central nervous system (CNS) venule adhesion cascade strongly favors the arrest of activated versus nai;ve T cells. However, the identification of the chemokine(s) expressed by the endothelium leading to integrin activation and arrest still remains to be determined. The new approach presented here to study the brain microcirculation may provide an useful tool for further investigations of physiologic and pathologic events that occur in the CNS.
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- Carlo Laudanna
- Section of General Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Verona, Strade le Grazie 8, Verona 37134, Italy
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Irony-Tur-Sinai M, Vlodavsky I, Ben-Sasson SA, Pinto F, Sicsic C, Brenner T. A synthetic heparin-mimicking polyanionic compound inhibits central nervous system inflammation. J Neurol Sci 2003; 206:49-57. [PMID: 12480085 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(02)00318-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The immunomodulating capacity of heparin led us to test the effect of the synthetic heparin-mimicking and low anticoagulant compound RG-13577 on the course of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and central nervous system (CNS) inflammation. EAE was induced in SJL mice by inoculation with whole mouse spinal cord homogenate. RG-13577, delivered intraperitoneally, inhibited the clinical signs of acute EAE and markedly ameliorated inflammation in the spinal cord, primarily by inhibiting heparanase activity in lymphocytes and astrocytes and thus impairing lymphocyte traffic. RG-13577 treatment was effective when started on day of disease induction or day 7 after induction. The low molecular weight heparin, enoxaparin, tested under the same conditions, exerted only a minor insignificant inhibitory effect. RG-13577 also inhibited the tyrosine phosphorylation of several proteins, particularly Erk1 and Erk2 of the MAP kinase signaling pathways associated with inflammation and cell proliferation. RG-13577 blocked the activity of sPLA(2) and inhibited CNS PGE(2) production both in vivo and in vitro.
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- Michal Irony-Tur-Sinai
- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital and Hebrew University Medical School, P.O. Box 12000, 91120 Jerusalem, Israel
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although the immune system seems to play an important role in the pathogenesis of disease, target antigens are still uncertain and pathways leading to tissue destruction have not been fully elucidated. Recent studies have significantly contributed to a better understanding of the disease process and broadened our view on possible scenarios of disease initiation and progression. We review the role of the immune system for the manifestation and evolution of MS and discuss different pathogenetic concepts. We conclude with an outlook on future strategies to identify the cause of MS.
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- Bernhard Hemmer
- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Moorenstrasse 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Moorenstrasse 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Moorenstrasse 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Moorenstrasse 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Segal BM. Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: cytokines, effector T cells, and antigen-presenting cells in a prototypical Th1-mediated autoimmune disease. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 2003; 3:86-93. [PMID: 12543000 DOI: 10.1007/s11882-003-0017-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is widely depicted as the prototypical CD4+ Th1-mediated autoimmune disease. Microglia and perivascular macrophages are believed to act as antigen-presenting cells during the effector phase of EAE. In this article, recent data that challenge these conceptions are reviewed. Several recent studies have shown that myelin-reactive CD8+ T cells can mediate inflammatory demyelination. Furthermore, dendritic-like cells have been detected in EAE lesions and implicated in encephalitogenic T-cell activation. Although Th1 polarizing monokines, such as interleukin-12 (IL-12) and possibly IL-23, are critical for the manifestation of EAE, individual Th1 effector cytokines were found to be dispensible.
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- Benjamin M Segal
- Department of Neurology, Microbiology and Immunology and the Cancer Center, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 605, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Matejuk A, Buenafe AC, Dwyer J, Ito A, Silverman M, Zamora A, Subramanian S, Vandenbark AA, Offner H. Endogenous CD4+BV8S2- T cells from TG BV8S2+ donors confer complete protection against spontaneous experimental encephalomyelitis (Sp-EAE) in TCR transgenic, RAG-/- mice. J Neurosci Res 2003; 71:89-103. [PMID: 12478617 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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To investigate regulatory mechanisms which naturally prevent autoimmune diseases, we adopted the genetically restricted immunodeficient (RAG-1(-/-)) myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific T cell receptor (TCR) double transgenic (T/R-) mouse model of spontaneous experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (Sp-EAE). Sp-EAE can be prevented after transfer of CD4+splenocytes from naïve immunocompetent mice. RAG-1+ double transgenic (T/R+) mice do not develop Sp-EAE due to the presence of a very small population (about 2%) of non-Tg TCR specificities. In this study, CD4+BV8S2+ T cells that predominate in T/R+ mice, and three additional populations, CD4+BV8S2-, CD4-CD8-BV8S2+, and CD4-CD8+BV8S2+ T cells that expanded in T/R+ mice after immunization with MBP-Ac1-11 peptide, were studied for their ability to prevent Sp-EAE in T/R- mice. Only the CD4+BV8S2- T cell population conferred complete protection against Sp-EAE, similar to unfractionated splenocytes from non-Tg donors, whereas CD4-CD8-BV8S2+ and CD4+BV8S2+ T cells conferred partial protection. In contrast, CD4-CD8+BV8S2+ T cells had no significant protective effects. The highly protective CD4+BV8S2- subpopulation was CD25+, contained non-clonotypic T cells, and uniquely expressed the CCR4 chemokine receptor. Protected recipient T/R- mice had marked increases in CD4+CD25+ Treg-like cells, retention of the pathogenic T cell phenotype in the spleen, and markedly reduced inflammation in CNS tissue. Partially protective CD4+BV8S2+ and CD4- CD8-BV8S2+ subpopulations appeared to be mainly clonotypic T cells with altered functional properties. These three Sp-EAE protective T cell subpopulations possessed distinctive properties and induced a variety of effects in T/R- recipients, thus implicating differing mechanisms of protection.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/physiology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/transplantation
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/physiology
- Chemokines/biosynthesis
- DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/deficiency
- DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/prevention & control
- Female
- Flow Cytometry/methods
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Homeodomain Proteins/immunology
- Immunization, Passive
- Lymph Nodes/cytology
- Lymph Nodes/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Mice, Transgenic
- Myelin Basic Protein/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/deficiency
- Peptide Fragments/genetics
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Chemokine/genetics
- Receptors, Chemokine/metabolism
- Recombinases
- Spinal Cord/pathology
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
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- Agata Matejuk
- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Stüve O, Youssef S, Slavin AJ, King CL, Patarroyo JC, Hirschberg DL, Brickey WJ, Soos JM, Piskurich JF, Chapman HA, Zamvil SS. The role of the MHC class II transactivator in class II expression and antigen presentation by astrocytes and in susceptibility to central nervous system autoimmune disease. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:6720-32. [PMID: 12471103 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.12.6720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The role of the MHC class II transactivator (CIITA) in Ag presentation by astrocytes and susceptibility to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) was examined using CIITA-deficient mice and newly created transgenic mice that used the glial fibrillary acidic protein promoter to target CIITA expression in astrocytes. CIITA was required for class II expression on astrocytes. Like class II-deficient mice, CIITA-deficient mice were resistant to EAE by immunization with CNS autoantigen, although T cells from immunized CIITA-deficient, but not class II-deficient, mice proliferated and secreted Th1 cytokines. CIITA-deficient splenic APC presented encephalitogenic peptide to purified wild-type encephalitogenic CD4(+) T cells, indicating that CIITA-independent mechanisms can be used for class II-restricted Ag presentation in lymphoid tissue. CIITA-deficient mice were also resistant to EAE by adoptive transfer of encephalitogenic class II-restricted CD4(+) Th1 cells, indicating that CIITA-dependent class II expression was required for CNS Ag presentation. Despite constitutive CIITA-driven class II expression on astrocytes in vivo, glial fibrillary acidic protein-CIITA transgenic mice were no more susceptible to EAE than controls. CIITA-transfected astrocytes presented peptide Ag, but in contrast to IFN-gamma-activated astrocytes, they could not process and present native Ag. CIITA-transfected astrocytes did not express cathepsin S without IFN-gamma activation, indicating that CIITA does not regulate other elements that may be required for Ag processing by astrocytes. Although our results demonstrate that CIITA-directed class II expression is required for EAE induction, CIITA-directed class II expression by astrocytes does not appear to increase EAE susceptibility. These results do not support the role of astrocytes as APC for class II-restricted Ag presentation during the induction phase of EAE.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigen Presentation/immunology
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/biosynthesis
- Astrocytes/immunology
- Astrocytes/metabolism
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Disease Susceptibility/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Endocytosis/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- Female
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/biosynthesis
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/biosynthesis
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Interferon-gamma/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Myelin Basic Protein/immunology
- Myelin Basic Protein/metabolism
- Myelin Proteins
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/immunology
- Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/metabolism
- Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein
- Nuclear Proteins
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/pathology
- Trans-Activators/biosynthesis
- Trans-Activators/deficiency
- Trans-Activators/genetics
- Trans-Activators/physiology
- Transfection
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Affiliation(s)
- Olaf Stüve
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0114, USA
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DiLorenzo TP, Lieberman SM, Takaki T, Honda S, Chapman HD, Santamaria P, Serreze DV, Nathenson SG. During the early prediabetic period in NOD mice, the pathogenic CD8(+) T-cell population comprises multiple antigenic specificities. Clin Immunol 2002; 105:332-41. [PMID: 12498815 DOI: 10.1006/clim.2002.5298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
In the NOD mouse model of type 1 diabetes, major histocompatibilitycomplex (MHC) class I-restricted CD8(+) T cells are essential for disease development. However, the extent of diversity of their antigenic specificities during early pathogenesis remains unclear. An insulin-derived peptide was recently identified as the epitope for the NOD-derived diabetogenic T-cell clone G9C8. To explore the possibility that the early pathogenic CD8(+) T-cell population comprises additional antigenic specificities, we employed the T-cell clones AI4 and NY8.3, both of which are pathogenic and represent specificities present in early insulitic lesions. The clones responded to distinct fractions of chromatographically separated class I MHC-bound peptides purified from NOD-derived NIT-1 beta cells, and neither clone recognized the insulin-derived peptide. NIT-1 cells represent an unlimited peptide source that will allow for the future isolation and sequencing of the novel multiple epitopes targeted early in the autoimmune response by pathogenic CD8(+) T cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Teresa P DiLorenzo
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada.
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Shao H, Sun SL, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. Induction of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and uveitis in B6 and (B6 x SJL) mice by peptides derived from myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein. J Neuroimmunol 2002; 132:117-22. [PMID: 12417441 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(02)00318-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that immunization of the Lewis rat with myelin basic protein (MBP), an encephalitogenic antigen derived from the myelin sheath of the CNS, induced both experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and anterior uveitis (AU). In the current study, we show that a major peptide derived from another encephalitogenic myelin protein-the myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG35-55)-induced both encephalomyelitis and uveitis in (B6 x SJL) F1 and wt-B6 mice. Pathological studies documented that an anterior uveitis was induced by MOG35-55. A similar disease pattern was induced by either active immunization with peptideMOG35-55 (pMOG35-55) or adoptive transfer of MOG35-55-specific T cells. The induced uveitis persisted for >60 days without remission. Our studies demonstrate for the first time that MOG is uveitogenic in mice that express the H-2(b) genetic background. This new experimental model should provide a useful tool for the study of the pathogenesis of chronic AU and determination of the pathogenic mechanisms by which a large portion of MS patients develops uveitis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hui Shao
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, 301 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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