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Sasaki S, Holmes TH, Albrecht RA, García-Sastre A, Dekker CL, He XS, Greenberg HB. Distinct cross-reactive B-cell responses to live attenuated and inactivated influenza vaccines. J Infect Dis 2014; 210:865-74. [PMID: 24676204 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The immunological bases for the efficacies of the 2 currently licensed influenza vaccines, live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) and inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV), are not fully understood. The goal of this study was to identify specific B-cell responses correlated with the known efficacies of these 2 vaccines. METHODS We compared the B-cell and antibody responses after immunization with 2010/2011 IIV or LAIV in young adults, focusing on peripheral plasmablasts 6-8 days after vaccination. RESULTS The quantities of vaccine-specific plasmablasts and plasmablast-derived polyclonal antibodies (PPAbs) in IIV recipients were significantly higher than those in LAIV recipients. No significant difference was detected in the avidity of vaccine-specific PPAbs between the 2 vaccine groups. Proportionally, LAIV induced a greater vaccine-specific immunoglobulin A plasmablast response, as well as a greater plasmablast response to the conserved influenza nuclear protein, than IIV. The cross-reactive plasmablast response to heterovariant strains, as indicated by the relative levels of cross-reactive plasmablasts and the cross-reactive PPAb binding reactivity, was also greater in the LAIV group. CONCLUSIONS Distinct quantitative and qualitative patterns of plasmablast responses were induced by LAIV and IIV in young adults; a proportionally greater cross-reactive response was induced by LAIV.
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- Sanae Sasaki
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology VA Palo Alto Health Care System, California
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- Department of Microbiology Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute
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- Department of Microbiology Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford VA Palo Alto Health Care System, California
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford VA Palo Alto Health Care System, California
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Nahmias AJ, Schollin J, Abramowsky C. Evolutionary-developmental perspectives on immune system interactions among the pregnant woman, placenta, and fetus, and responses to sexually transmitted infectious agents. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2011; 1230:25-47. [PMID: 21824164 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06137.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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A balance has evolved over deep time between the various immune systems of the "triad" that is linked together for a short period: the pregnant woman, the fetus, and the placenta. This balance is affected by, and helps to determine, the immune responses to maternal infectious agents that may be transmitted to the fetus/infant transplacentally, intrapartum, or via breast milk. This review identifies newer evolutionary concepts and processes related particularly to the human placenta, innate and adaptive immune systems involved in tolerance, and in responses to sexually transmitted infectious (STI) agents that may be pathogenic to the fetus/infant at different gestational periods and in the first year of life. An evolutionary-developmental (EVO-DEVO) perspective has been applied to the complexities within, and among, the different actors and their beneficial or deleterious outcomes. Such a phylogenetic and ontogenic approach has helped to stimulate several basic questions and suggested possible explanations and novel practical interventions.
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Bartolomé J, Porta F, Lafranchi A, Rodríguez-Molina JJ, Cela E, Cantalejo A, Fernández-Cruz E, Gómez-Pineda A, Ugazio AG, Notarangelo LD, Gil J. B cell function after haploidentical in utero bone marrow transplantation in a patient with severe combined immunodeficiency. Bone Marrow Transplant 2002; 29:625-8. [PMID: 11979315 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1703410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2001] [Accepted: 01/15/2002] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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An in utero paternal CD34(+) cell transplant was performed in a T-B+NK+ SCID fetus. We report here the results of the 3-year humoral immune reconstitution study. The methods used were ApoB VNTR typing, flow cytometry, nephelometry, hemagglutination, ELISA, ELISPOT and lymphoproliferative assays. The T cells were of donor origin whereas monocytes, B and NK cells were of host origin. Peripheral B cell counts and IgM levels were normal since birth. IVIG therapy was required at 5 months of age until 2 years old. IgA levels > or =20 mg/dl were detected from month 17 post transplantation. Isohemagglutinins were present since month 8 post transplantation, the highest titers (anti-A:1/128, anti-B:1/32) were obtained at month 33 post-transplantation. After immunization with rHBsAg, circulating anti-HBsAg IgG secreting cells and a 7.8-fold increase in serum anti-HBsAg Ab were detected. We conclude that split chimerism following in utero haploidentical BMT allows complete humoral immune reconstitution in a T-B+NK+ SCID patient.
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- J Bartolomé
- Division of Immunology, Hospital General Universitario 'Gregorio Marañón', Madrid, Spain
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Picarelli A, di Tola M, Sabbatella L, Mastracchio A, Trecca A, Gabrielli F, di Cello T, Anania MC, Torsoli A. Identification of a new coeliac disease subgroup: antiendomysial and anti-transglutaminase antibodies of IgG class in the absence of selective IgA deficiency. J Intern Med 2001; 249:181-8. [PMID: 11240848 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2001.00793.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to increase the sensitivity of the antiendomysial antibody (EMA) test by evaluating also EMAs of IgG1 isotype. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Over the last 2 years, serum EMAs IgA and IgG1 were determined in 1399 patients, referred to our gastrointestinal unit due to clinical suspicion of malabsorption. Serum anti-tissue transglutaminase (tTG) antibodies IgA and IgG, as well as total IgA levels, were also investigated. Furthermore, EMAs IgA and IgG1 were evaluated in biopsy culture supernatants. Biopsy specimens were also admitted to histological and immunohistochemical evaluation. Twenty-six patients with gastroenterological disease other than coeliac disease (CD) were used as a disease control group. Ninety-nine blood donors were used as a healthy control group. RESULTS Diagnosis of CD was based on histological findings in the 110/1399 patients showing EMA IgA positivity, and in a further 56/1399 patients presenting both EMA IgA and IgG1 positivity in sera as well as in culture supernatants. Of the remaining 1233 EMA IgA-negative patients, 60 showed only EMA IgG1 positivity both in sera and in culture supernatants. It is noteworthy that anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies IgG (anti-tTG) were positive in all 60 EMA IgG1-positive patients as well. By contrast, a selective IgA deficiency was found in only 11 out of the 60 EMA IgG1-positive patients. Villous height/crypt depth ratio was < 3:1 in 38 of the 60 EMA IgG1-positive patients (63.3%), whilst overexpression of ICAM-1 and CD25 was observed in all these patients. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we observed a group of CD patients who were EMA IgG1-positive even in the absence of EMA IgA positivity and IgA deficiency. The diagnosis was based on the finding of the gluten-dependent clinical and histological features typical of CD. Data emerging from the present investigation thus suggest that the prevalence of CD should be reassessed and that the determination of EMA IgG1 could offer a new tool in the diagnostic armamentarium of CD.
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- A Picarelli
- Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
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Kourtis AP, Nesheim SR, Thea D, Ibegbu C, Nahmias AJ, Lee FK. Correlation of virus load and soluble L-selectin, a marker of immune activation, in pediatric HIV-1 infection. AIDS 2000; 14:2429-36. [PMID: 11101052 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200011100-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE HIV infections in children are characterized by high viral load and, in some perinatally infected newborns, delayed appearance of viral markers. Both phenomena may be related to different levels of immune activation affecting viral replication. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between immune activation and viral replication in pediatric HIV infection, and the role of pre-existent immune activation in facilitating HIV transmission to the fetus/newborn. DESIGN Plasma levels of soluble L-selectin (s-LS), an immune activation marker, were determined in 100 infants with perinatally transmitted HIV infection, compared with 106 age-matched HIV-exposed uninfected controls. Included in the analysis were samples from 31 HIV-infected (10 PCR+ and 21 PCR-) and 35 uninfected newborns aged < 2 days. METHODS To determine s-LS levels, a solid phase ELISA was performed on plasma samples of patients and controls. RESULTS s-LS levels in uninfected children were higher than those in normal adults. HIV-infected patients had more rapidly increasing values in the first 6 months of life compared with uninfected infants. Plasma s-LS levels correlated with HIV viral loads (r, 0.50). Among newborns in the first 2 days of life, s-LS levels were lowest in those with negative PCR tests, compared with PCR-positive or uninfected infants. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that higher immune activation in children contributes to higher viral loads, and that the level of pre-existent immune activation may have a role in determining which infants have detectable virus in peripheral blood at birth.
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- A P Kourtis
- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Picarelli A, Sabbatella L, Di Tola M, Gabrielli F, Greco R, Di Cello T, Mastracchio A, Anania MC. Celiac disease diagnosis in misdiagnosed children. Pediatr Res 2000; 48:590-2. [PMID: 11044476 DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200011000-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Antiendomysial antibodies (EMA) are today considered the most sensitive and specific serological marker of celiac disease (CD). The aim of the present study was to assess the occurrence of EMA of IgG isotype in EMA IgA negative children with clinical suspicion of malabsorption and their relationship with CD. Serum EMA IgG1 determination was performed on 30 EMA IgA negative children with clinical suspicion of CD. Total serum IgA levels were further investigated. Sixty children with gastroenterological diseases other than CD were used as control disease patients and 63 healthy children were evaluated as the control group. Eighteen out of 30 children in the study showed EMA IgG1 positivity in sera and a villous height/crypt depth ratio <3:1 as index of intestinal atrophy. It is noticeable that a selective IgA deficiency was present in only 9 of 18 EMA IgG1 positive children. In addition, clinical symptoms, EMA IgG1, and mucosal atrophy disappeared after 8-10 mo on a gluten-free diet. Neither EMA IgA nor EMA IgG1 were detected in the children in the control groups. The other 12 children in study group showed no histologic abnormalities and were EMA IgG1 negative. In this study, we reveal a group of EMA IgG1 CD children without IgA deficiency. The diagnosis was based on the presence of gluten-dependent typical serological and histologic features of CD. Our data suggest that EMA IgG1 determination could be a new tool in the diagnostic workup of CD, useful in avoiding possible misdiagnosis.
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- A Picarelli
- Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy
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Tabidze IL, Lee FK, Tambe P, Rocha E, Larsen SA, Stoll BJ, St Louis ME, Nahmias AJ. Enzyme-linked immunospot assay for the diagnosis of active Treponema pallidum infection during the various stages of syphilis. Sex Transm Dis 1999; 26:426-30. [PMID: 10494932 DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199909000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Specific serologic assays for syphilis cannot differentiate current infections from past infections and are inefficient to monitor efficacy of antibiotic therapy. GOAL To develop a new immunologic assay for the identification of active Treponema pallidum infection during the various stages of syphilis. STUDY DESIGN Peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from patients with syphilis in an STD clinic were tested for T. pallidum-specific circulating antibody-secreting cells (ASC) by an enzyme-linked immunospot assay (ELISPOT). RESULTS Specific ASC were demonstrated in all six patients with primary syphilis and in 14 of 16 patients diagnosed with secondary syphilis. ASCs were undetectable in five patients 8 to 16 days after appropriate therapy, but persisted in one case that was considered treatment failure. Among the 13 patients diagnosed with latent syphilis, six (46%) demonstrated ASC, reflecting antigenic stimulation. CONCLUSION The ELISPOT assay is effective for the diagnosis of primary and secondary syphilis. The presence of circulating ASC suggests persistent active infection in some patients during the latent disease stage.
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- I L Tabidze
- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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Baqar S, Nour El Din AA, Scott DA, Bourgeois AL, Mourad AS, Kleinosky MT, Oplinger MJ, Murphy JR. Standardization of measurement of immunoglobulin-secreting cells in human peripheral circulation. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1997; 4:375-9. [PMID: 9144380 PMCID: PMC170535 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.3.375-379.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A sensitive, and at times the most sensitive, measurement of human vaccine immunogenicity is enumeration of antibody-secreting cells (ASC) in peripheral blood. However, this assay, which is inherently capable of measurement of the absolute number of antigen-specific ASC, is not standardized. Thus, quantitative comparison of results between laboratories is not currently possible. To address this issue, isotype-specific ASC were enumerated from paired fresh and cryopreserved mononuclear cell (MNC) preparations from healthy adult volunteers resident in either the United States (US group) or Egypt (EG group). Analysis of fresh cells from US volunteers revealed mean numbers of ASC per 10(6) MNC of 617, 7,738, and 868 for immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgG, and IgA, respectively, whereas EG volunteers had 2,086, 7,580, and 1,677 ASC/10(6) MNC for the respective isotypes. Cryopreservation resulted in a slight reduction in group mean IgM, IgG, and IgA ASC (maximum reduction in group mean, 14%), but in no instance were results obtained with cryopreserved cells significantly lower than those obtained with fresh cells. To determine if cryopreservation affected the number of bacterial antigen-specific ASC detected, cells from a group of US adult volunteers who received a single oral dose of a mutated Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LT(R192G)) were tested. There was no significant difference (P > 0.05) in the number of antigen-specific IgA or IgG ASC detected between fresh and cryopreserved MNC. The results support the views that ASC assays can be standardized to yield quantitative results and that the methodology can be changed to make the test more practical.
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- S Baqar
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Kourtis AP, Ibegbu C, Nahmias AJ, Lee FK, Clark WS, Sawyer MK, Nesheim S. Early progression of disease in HIV-infected infants with thymus dysfunction. N Engl J Med 1996; 335:1431-6. [PMID: 8875920 DOI: 10.1056/nejm199611073351904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Infants with congenital thymic deficiency (the DiGeorge syndrome) have immunodeficiency and a characteristic pattern of low CD4+ and CD8+ T-lymphocyte counts and low CD5+ B-lymphocyte counts. Because the thymus is essential for the generation of CD4+ cells, we sought evidence of thymus dysfunction in infants infected perinatally with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). METHODS We studied the immunophenotypes of 59 infants with maternally transmitted HIV, 5 infants with the DiGeorge syndrome, and 168 infants exposed to HIV but not infected. The criteria for a presumed thymic defect were reductions in both the CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell subgroups during the first six months of life that were confirmed in a subgroup of infants by low counts of CD4+CD45RA+ and CD4+CD45RO+ T cells and CD5+ B cells. RESULTS Of the 59 HIV-infected infants, 17 had immunophenotypes similar to those of infants with the DiGeorge syndrome. The risks of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by the ages of 12 and 24 months were 75 percent and 92 percent in these 17 infants, as compared with 14 and 34 percent in the other 42 infants (P<0.001). Nine of the HIV-infected infants with the DiGeorge-like immunophenotype (53 percent) died within six months of the progression to AIDS, as compared with only three of the other infants (7 percent, P=0.006). CONCLUSIONS In some infants infected perinatally with HIV, a pattern of lymphocyte depletion develops that resembles the pattern in congenital thymic deficiency. Since HIV disease progresses rapidly in such infants, they may be candidates for early antiviral therapy and attempts at immune reconstitution.
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- A P Kourtis
- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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Kodama H, Faden H. Cellular immunity to the P6 outer membrane protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Immun 1995; 63:2467-72. [PMID: 7790058 PMCID: PMC173329 DOI: 10.1128/iai.63.7.2467-2472.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Cellular immunity to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in a population of 10 healthy, immune adults was determined by measuring lymphocyte blast transformation and antibody secretion in response to the P6 outer membrane protein. P6 (200 microliters/ml) induced lymphocyte blast transformation that peaked on day 10 of incubation. The peak induction of antibody-secreting cells occurred on day 8 of incubation. In comparison with the response to tetanus toxoid stimulation, the peak lymphocyte blast transformation response to P6 was reduced (mean counts per minute +/- standard error of the mean [SEM], 3,457 +/- 503 versus 9,414 +/- 1,464; P = 0.0051) and delayed (mean days +/- SEM, 10.3 +/- 0.4 versus 8.4 +/- 0.5; P = 0.0169); however, P6 was a better stimulus of antibody secretion from lymphocytes, particularly antibody of the immunoglobulin M (IgM) class (mean peak numbers of antibody-secreting cells per 10(5) peripheral blood mononuclear cells +/- SEM: IgG, 85 +/- 29 versus 42 +/- 16 [P = 0.0469]; IgM, 81 +/- 20 versus 25 +/- 7 [P = 0.0125]; IgA, 24 +/- 8 versus 16 +/- 6 [P = 0.0526]). Thus, lymphocytes from immune individuals recognize P6 of nontypeable H. influenzae as an immunogen. These data provide a basis for future studies with otitis-prone children who fail to develop a normal antibody response to P6 antigen (N. Yamanaka and H. Faden, J. Pediatr. 122:212-218, 1993).
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- H Kodama
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
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Donohoe PJ, Heddle RJ, Sykes PJ, Fusco M, Flego LR, Zola H. IgE+ cells in the peripheral blood of atopic, nonatopic, and bee venom-hypersensitive individuals exhibit the phenotype of highly differentiated B cells. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1995; 95:587-96. [PMID: 7531730 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-6749(95)70321-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We have analyzed IgE+ cells in peripheral blood of atopic donors, donors hypersensitive to bee venom, and nonatopic control donors with two- and three-color flow cytometry. Although the percentage of IgE+ cells varied among these groups, the overall phenotypic patterns were similar. Most IgE+ cells do not display typical B-cell markers, such as CD19, CD20, and CD21. A significant proportion of these cells stain for CD38, indicating that they are more differentiated. IgE+ cells express Fc gamma RII and CD45RO, an isoform associated with an advanced level of differentiation. The majority of IgE+ cells do not coexpress other surface immunoglobulin isotypes. In the case of bee venom-hypersensitive donors, we have been able to identify a small population of IgE+ cells with a specificity for phospholipase A2, a major immunogenic component of bee venom. The phospholipase A2+ cells display a phenotype similar to that of the IgE+ cells.
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- P J Donohoe
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia
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Stoll BJ, Lee FK, Hale E, Schwartz D, Holmes R, Ashby R, Czerkinsky C, Nahmias AJ. Immunoglobulin secretion by the normal and the infected newborn infant. J Pediatr 1993; 122:780-6. [PMID: 8496761 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(06)80026-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The development of quantitative single-cell immunoassays has provided a novel opportunity to demonstrate the isotype-specific immunoglobulin responses in normal and infected neonates. The reverse enzyme-linked immunospot assay was used to determine the number of immunoglobulin-secreting cells (IgSCs) in peripheral blood. Baseline numbers of IgSCs were established in 69 uninfected term and preterm infants within 5 days of birth; values above the 99th percentile were considered elevated. The IgSCs were also measured in 266 infants with proved or suspected infections or congenital anomalies. A subset of newborn infants was retested weekly. Few IgSCs (mostly IgMSCs) were detected within 5 days of birth in uninfected neonates, but by 1 month 77% had increased numbers of IgSCs, primarily IgASCs. Sixty-three (24%) of 266 study infants had increased IgSCs on initial sampling (predominantly IgMSCs); these included infants as immature as 25 to 27 weeks of gestational age; elevations in IgSCs were most frequent in infants with intrauterine infections. Increased numbers of IgSCs were uncommon in infants with early-onset sepsis in the first 5 days but were frequent by the second week, consistent with acquisition of infection near the time of delivery. We conclude that the presence of elevated numbers of IgSCs soon after birth may be a useful surrogate marker of untreated intrauterine infection. The development of predominantly IgASCs in the first month of life suggests postnatal exposure to common mucosal antigens.
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- B J Stoll
- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30335
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