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Gottschick C, Raupach-Rosin H, Langer S, Hassan L, Horn J, Dorendorf E, Caputo M, Bittner M, Beier L, Rübsamen N, Schlinkmann K, Zoch B, Guzman CA, Hansen G, Heselich V, Holzapfel E, Hübner J, Pietschmann T, Pieper DH, Pletz M, Riese P, Schmidt-Pokrzywniak A, Hartwig S, von Kaisenberg C, Aydogdu M, Buhles M, Dressler F, Eberl W, Haase R, Edler von Koch F, Feidicker S, Frambach T, Franz HGB, Guthmann F, Koch HG, Seeger S, Oberhoff C, Pauker W, Petry KU, Schild RL, Tchirikov M, Röhrig E, Karch A, Mikolajczyk R. Cohort Profile: The LoewenKIDS Study - life-course perspective on infections, the microbiome and the development of the immune system in early childhood. Int J Epidemiol 2020; 48:1042-1043h. [PMID: 30815674 PMCID: PMC7108547 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Cornelia Gottschick
- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Research Group Epidemiological and Statistical Methods
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- Research Group Epidemiological and Statistical Methods
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- Department Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany
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- Research Group Microbial Interactions and Processes, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, University Hospital Jena, Germany
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- Department Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology, Gyneoncology and Senology, Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Community Hospital Wolfenbüttel, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Braunschweig, Germany
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- Section for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Dritter Orden, Munich-Nymphenburg, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Diaconical Hospital DIAKO Ev., Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital St. Joseph Stift Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Neonatology, Children and Youth Hospital AUF DER BULT, Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital St. Elisabeth und St. Barbara, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Klinikum Links der Weser, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Klinikum Bremen-Nord, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Wolfsburg, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Perinatal Medicine, DIAKOVERE Henriettenstift Hanover, Germany
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- University Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics, Dr. Geisenhofer Women's Clinic, Munich, Germany
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- Research Group Epidemiological and Statistical Methods.,Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institut of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.,Research Group Epidemiological and Statistical Methods
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Arrandale VH, Brauer M, Brook JR, Brunekreef B, Gold DR, London SJ, Miller JD, Özkaynak H, Ries NM, Sears MR, Silverman FS, Takaro TK. Exposure assessment in cohort studies of childhood asthma. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2011; 119:591-597. [PMID: 21081299 PMCID: PMC3094407 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2010] [Accepted: 11/16/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND The environment is suspected to play an important role in the development of childhood asthma. Cohort studies are a powerful observational design for studying exposure-response relationships, but their power depends in part upon the accuracy of the exposure assessment. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to summarize and discuss issues that make accurate exposure assessment a challenge and to suggest strategies for improving exposure assessment in longitudinal cohort studies of childhood asthma and allergies. DATA SYNTHESIS Exposures of interest need to be prioritized, because a single study cannot measure all potentially relevant exposures. Hypotheses need to be based on proposed mechanisms, critical time windows for effects, prior knowledge of physical, physiologic, and immunologic development, as well as genetic pathways potentially influenced by the exposures. Modifiable exposures are most important from the public health perspective. Given the interest in evaluating gene-environment interactions, large cohort sizes are required, and planning for data pooling across independent studies is critical. Collection of additional samples, possibly through subject participation, will permit secondary analyses. Models combining air quality, environmental, and dose data provide exposure estimates across large cohorts but can still be improved. CONCLUSIONS Exposure is best characterized through a combination of information sources. Improving exposure assessment is critical for reducing measurement error and increasing power, which increase confidence in characterization of children at risk, leading to improved health outcomes.
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- Victoria H. Arrandale
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Environment Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- College of Natural Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Faculty of Law and School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Previous authors have suggested that tumor suppressor expression promotes aging while preventing cancer, but direct experimental support for this cancer-aging hypothesis has been elusive. Here, by using somatic, tissue-specific inactivation of the p16(INK4a) tumor suppressor in murine T- or B-lymphoid progenitors, we report that ablation of p16(INK4a) can either rescue aging or promote cancer in a lineage-specific manner. Deletion of p16(INK4a) in the T lineage ameliorated several aging phenotypes, including thymic involution, decreased production of naive T cells, reduction in homeostatic T-cell proliferation, and attenuation of antigen-specific immune responses. Increased T-cell neoplasia was not observed with somatic p16(INK4a) inactivation in T cells. In contrast, B lineage-specific ablation of p16(INK4a) was associated with a markedly increased incidence of systemic, high-grade B-cell neoplasms, which limited studies of the effects of somatic p16(INK4a) ablation on B-cell aging. Together, these data show that expression of p16(INK4a) can promote aging and prevent cancer in related lymphoid progeny of a common stem cell.
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Lopes AI, Victorino RMM, Palha AM, Ruivo J, Fernandes A. Mucosal lymphocyte subsets and HLA-DR antigen expression in paediatric Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis. Clin Exp Immunol 2006; 145:13-20. [PMID: 16792668 PMCID: PMC1942005 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2006.03100.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/22/2006] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Paediatric studies may provide important insights into the immunopathology of Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis, as mucosal changes reflect different stages of the immunoinflammatory response. We characterized, by quantitative immunohistochemistry, gastric mucosal lymphocyte phenotype and HLA-DR antigen expression and evaluated correlation with histopathology, in H. pylori-infected (Hp+ve) and uninfected children (Hp-ve). In the infected group, lamina propria CD3+ and IgA plasmocyte cell numbers were significantly higher and a trend for predominance of CD8+ over CD4+ was observed both in epithelium and lamina propria. A correlation of inflammation score with lamina propria CD3+ and CD4+ cell numbers and of CD45RO+ T lymphocytes with density of colonization was observed. The proportion of epithelial cells expressing HLA-DR antigen was significantly higher in the Hp+ve group and furthermore, glandular HLA-DR expression correlated with lamina propria CD3+ cell numbers, emphasizing the potential role of epithelial cells as antigen-presenting cells at this stage of infection.
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- A I Lopes
- Paediatric Gastrenterology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Kobayashi M, Ishida E, Yasuda H, Yamamoto O, Tokura Y. Tinea profunda cysticum caused by Trichophyton rubrum. J Am Acad Dermatol 2006; 54:S11-3. [PMID: 16427983 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.03.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2005] [Revised: 03/21/2005] [Accepted: 03/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A 57-year-old Japanese woman developed multiple subcutaneous cysts located on the pubic region, thighs, back, and buttocks. She had been treated with systemic prednisolone and azathioprine for 3 years because of autoimmune hepatitis. Histologic examination revealed that the lesions were pseudocysts with numerous spores and hyphae. Trichophyton rubrum was identified in culture from the content of several examined cysts. The serum beta-D-glucan level was high (313 pg/mL), and a computed tomographic scan of the chest cavity showed infective embolism in the lung. To our best knowledge, this is the first reported case of multiple-cystic tinea profunda, presumably with systemic dermatophyte infection. Systemic T-cell immunosuppression, as represented by a relatively low percentage of memory T cells and negative delayed-type hypersensitivity tests, is considered to cause this rare manifestation of dermatophytosis.
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- Miwa Kobayashi
- Department of Dermatology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
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Socha P, Michałkiewicz J, Stachowski J, Pawłowska J, Jankowska I, Barth C, Socha J, Madaliński K. Deficiency of the expression of CD45RA isoform of CD45 common leukocyte antigen in CD4+ T lymphocytes in children with infantile cholestasis. Immunol Lett 2001; 75:179-84. [PMID: 11166373 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2478(00)00305-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The immunological background of the pathological changes that appear in infantile cholestasis (infections, inflammatory process in the liver) is largely unknown. With the use of double color flow cytometry, we assessed the distribution of functionally different lymphocyte subpopulations in the peripheral blood of 29 infants with extra and intra-hepatic cholestasis (12 and 17 patients, respectively), aged from 1 to 8.6 months. Control group consisted of 15 age-matched, healthy infants. We examined: (1) the expression of CD3, CD4, CD8, CD19 lymphocyte surface receptors; and (2) the distribution of lymphocyte subsets with distinctive surface Ag characteristics of 'naive' (CD45RA+) and 'memory' (CD45RO+) cells in both CD4+ and CD8+ cell populations. The surface markers expression was evaluated in terms of percentage of positive cells and receptor density. The following changes in the expression of lymphocyte surface markers are described: (1) a decrease in the percentage of total CD3+, CD4+ cells but normal percentage of CD8+ cells and elevated proportion of CD19+ B cells; (2) a reduction of the proportion of 'naive' CD4+ lymphocytes but normal percentage of 'naive' CD8+ as well as 'memory' CD4+ and CD8+ cell subsets; (3) a decrease in density of CD3, CD4+, CD8 receptors, and D45RA isoform in a subset of 'naive' CD4+ cells. We conclude that deficiency of 'naive' CD4+ T cell subset which possess important effector and immunoregulatory functions, and low expression of certain lymphocyte receptors known to be engaged in T cell activation, possibly reflect a defect of cell mediated immunity that may account for viral and bacterial infections, often observed in infants with cholestasis.
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- P Socha
- The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Aleja Dzieci Polskich 20, 04-736, Warsaw, Poland
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Juretić E, Uzarević B, Petrovecki M, Juretić A. Two-color flow cytometric analysis of preterm and term newborn lymphocytes. Immunobiology 2000; 202:421-8. [PMID: 11205372 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(00)80101-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Immune system maturation proceeds postnatally in humans. Therefore, newborns, especially those of a lower gestational age, are not fully immunocompetent and are more likely to acquire perinatal infections. In order to investigate the neonatal immune system status, the major lymphocyte subpopulations were studied in newborns of different gestational age, comparing term newborns and adults. The cord blood from 66 newborns and the peripheral blood from 23 adults were analyzed using fluorochrome labelled monoclonal antibodies and two-color flow cytometry. The newborns were divided into three groups according to their gestational age. Ten prematures were under 32 weeks of gestation, 35 were of 32-37 weeks and there were 21 term newborns. The percentage of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CD4 CD8+) was lower in term newborns as compared to the adult controls (17.8 versus 30.3%), and so were the percentages of activated T lymphocytes (CD3+Ia+; 0.3 versus 3.7%), cytotoxic non-MHC restricted T lymphocytes (CD3+CD16+CD56+; 0.2 versus 1.8%) and NK cells (CD3-CD16+CD56+; 4.8 versus 15.5%). On the contrary, the proportions of unlabelled cells were increased in term cord blood. The expression of CD45R0 marker on neonatal lymphocytes was very low (1%). In comparison to the higher-gestation newborns, the lower gestation prematures had reduced percentages of T lymphocytes (CD3+; 43 versus 65%), mostly helper T lymphocytes (CD4+CD8-; 35 versus 50%), and increased percentages of unlabelled cells. The percentages of NK cells (CD3+CD16+CD56+) and B lymphocytes (CD3-CD19+; CD3-Ia+) did not differ among the tested newborn groups. There were no significant differences in major lymphocyte subpopulations between the group of highest-gestation prematures and the group of term newborns that differed significantly when compared to adults. The lowest-gestation newborns showed the most immature lymphocyte phenotype with the highest percentages of unlabelled cells.
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- E Juretić
- Zagreb Clinical Hospital Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University School of Medicine, Croatia
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- P G Holt
- TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth, Australia
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Yang D, Chen Q, Chertov O, Oppenheim JJ. Human neutrophil defensins selectively chemoattract naive T and immature dendritic cells. J Leukoc Biol 2000. [DOI: 10.1189/jlb.68.1.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- De Yang
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Division of Basic Sciences, , Frederick, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Division of Basic Sciences, , Frederick, Maryland
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- Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute‐Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Division of Basic Sciences, , Frederick, Maryland
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Auewarakul P, Sangsiriwut K, Pattanapanyasat K, Wasi C, Lee TH. Age-dependent expression of the HIV-1 coreceptor CCR5 on CD4+ lymphocytes in children. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2000; 24:285-7. [PMID: 10969354 DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200007010-00015] [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: 11/26/2022]
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Age-Dependent Expression of the HIV-1 Coreceptor CCR5 on CD4+ Lymphocytes in Children. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2000. [DOI: 10.1097/00042560-200007010-00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Granot E, Rabinowitz R, Schlesinger M. Lymphocyte subset profile of young healthy children residing in a rural area: possible role of recurrent gastrointestinal infections. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1999; 28:147-51. [PMID: 9932845 DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199902000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lymphocyte subsets in healthy children are currently characterized by age-related standards. Because antigenic stimuli play a role in maturation of the immune system after birth, there is a question of whether cellular immune development differs in infants whose living conditions entail extensive antigenic exposure and infants growing up in a more protected environment. METHODS Peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets were studied in two populations of children of similar age and nutritional status; children belonging to a rural population residing in proximity with farm animals and children from an economically privileged urban population. In each population, children studied included a group with an acute diarrheal episode and a healthy control group. RESULTS Among rural population children, 65% had experienced at least one episode of gastroenteritis within the previous 3-month-period, compared with less than 10% of urban population children. In the rural population group 15% had experienced two or more episodes of gastroenteritis. The proportion of helper T cells was similar in rural population and urban population children. Among helper T cells, the proportion of CD29+ "memory" cells of the total CD4+ helper T cells was more than two times higher than those in rural population children. The proportion of CD8 cells was higher in rural population children than in urban population children, and the proportion of natural killer cells, CD56+ and CD57+, was two to three times higher in rural population children. Within each population, peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets did not differ between the healthy control group and those with acute diarrhea. CONCLUSIONS In young children exposure to environmental pathogens and specifically to gastrointestinal antigenic stimuli is a major factor affecting development of the cellular immune response. Young children who have experienced enhanced infectious exposure have a peripheral blood lymphocyte profile similar to that of adults.
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- E Granot
- Pediatrics Department, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of repeated tonsillitis on the development of lymphocyte subsets in the tonsils and among peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of children. Subsets of T- and B cells were analyzed in the tonsils and in PBL of patients undergoing tonsillectomy for idiopathic tonsillar hypertrophy, recurrent tonsillitis, or tonsillar hypertrophy and tonsillitis. The majority of the CD4+ cells in the tonsils displayed the CD45RO+ phenotype, while the majority of those in the PBL displayed the CD45RA+ phenotype. Likewise, the proportion of CD45RO+CD8+ cells was higher in the tonsils than among PBL. The proportion of CD4 cells expressing the CD45RO marker increased with age among PBL, but not in the tonsils. B cells, detected by their CD19, CD20, and CD21 markers, were three times more abundant in the tonsils than in the PBL. The proportion of CD38+ cells showed a negative correlation with age, both in the tonsils and among PBL. Among PBL a striking age-related reduction was seen in the proportion of CD19+, CD21+ and CD38+CD21+ B cells. In contrast, in the tonsils age-related changes could be detected only in the proportion of CD21+CD38+ cells. No difference among patients with various clinical diagnoses was detectable in any of the T- and B cell subsets in the tonsils and PBL. Thus, lymphocyte subsets evolve independently in the tonsils and peripheral blood, with the repeated antigenic challenge of tonsillar lymphocytes not influencing circulating memory cells.
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- E Rosenmann
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, the Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Neubert R, Delgado I, Abraham K, Schuster C, Helge H. Evaluation of the age-dependent development of lymphocyte surface receptors in children. Life Sci 1998; 62:1099-110. [PMID: 9519812 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(98)00033-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Components and functions of the immune system change during postnatal development, not only in the first years of life, but well through adolescence and even into adult life. These age-dependent changes within the immune system greatly complicate any attempt to assess pathological alterations of immunologic variables in children. The need for studies on possible substance-induced changes, including risk assessment of environmental chemicals, has increased the necessity to establish reference ranges for certain immunologic variables against which an abnormal developmental status can be evaluated. In the present study age-related changes of surface receptors on peripheral white blood cells were studied in 82 children, aged between 2 months and 17 years. The blood samples were triple labeled with monoclonal antibodies followed by a whole blood lysis technique and were subsequently analyzed by flow cytometry. Complex statistical analyses were performed in order to determine probability ranges for some immunological variables. In this paper we describe the age-dependent development of components involved in major maturational processes, including the appearance and varying expression of adhesion receptors (CD11a, CD18, CD28, CD29, CD44, CD49d and CD54) on CD4+ "helper" cells and CD8+ "suppressor and cytotoxic" cells. A clear-cut increase of high epitope density expression of the integrins on both CD4+ and CD8+ cells was noted. These results suggest that the components of immune T cells for performing adhesion by interacting with other cells and many matrix components are largely acquired during postnatal development. Maximal levels of adhesion receptor expression are reached at different ages depending on the specific T cell subpopulation.
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- R Neubert
- Children's Hospital, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Haus, Berlin, Germany
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Foerster M, Delgado I, Abraham K, Gerstmayr S, Neubert R. Comparative study on age-dependent development of surface receptors on peripheral blood lymphocytes in children and young nonhuman primates (marmosets). Life Sci 1997; 60:773-85. [PMID: 9064482 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(97)00005-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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General conformity was found concerning age-dependent changes in the major subsets (CD4, CD8, CD2, CD20) and the adhesion molecules CD11a and CD29 on peripheral blood lymphocytes in children and young marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Differences exist in the expression of the surface receptors CD45RA and CD56. Taking the total number of white blood cells into account, an age-related increase in the absolute numbers of peripheral blood lymphocytes was found in marmosets whereas in children, an age-dependent decrease was observed. The definition of reference ranges for different stages of maturation in children and young marmosets may serve as a basis on which comparative risk assessment of possible effects on lymphocyte subsets after pre- or perinatal drug exposure can be estimated.
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- M Foerster
- Institute of Toxicology and Embryopharmacology, University Medical Center, Free University Berlin, German
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Cossarizza A, Ortolani C, Paganelli R, Barbieri D, Monti D, Sansoni P, Fagiolo U, Castellani G, Bersani F, Londei M, Franceschi C. CD45 isoforms expression on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells throughout life, from newborns to centenarians: implications for T cell memory. Mech Ageing Dev 1996; 86:173-95. [PMID: 8733112 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(95)01691-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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CD4+ and CD8+ peripheral blood T lymphocytes show mutually exclusive expression of CD45RA or CD45R0, two isoforms of the common leukocyte antigen that seem to recognize so-called virgin/unprimed and memory/activated T cells. The expression of these isoforms has been studied by three colour cytofluorimetric analysis on CD4+ or CD8+ peripheral blood CD3+ cells from 22 healthy centenarians, analyzed in a context of 202 healthy donors 0-110 years old. An age-related unbalance of virgin and memory cells was found between CD4+ and CD8+ subsets. As expected, at birgh 95-99% of the CD3+ lymphocytes expressed the CD45RA isoform. A rapid increase of CD45R0+ cells was observed in the first 2-3 decades of life, this phenomenon being much more pronounced on CD4+ cells. Subsequently, the increase of the 'memory' compartment was much less rapid, so that in centenarians a consistent reservoire of CD45RA+ among CD4+ cells was still present (about 20%). In these exceptional individuals the percentage of CD45RA+ cells among CD8+ T lymphocytes was even higher (about 50%), and only slightly lower than that of young donors (about 55-60%). Thus, the main changes occurred at a different rate in CD4+ (about 20%). In these exceptional individuals the percentage of CD45RA+ cells among CD8+ T lymphocytes was even higher (about 50%), and only slightly lower than that of young donors (about 55-60%). Thus, the main changes occurred at a different rate in CD4+ and in CD8+ T cells, at an age of between 0 and 30 years, when the thymus is still functionally active. Interestingly, no difference in the usage of CD45 isoforms was observed within T cells bearing four different V beta-T cell receptor (TCR). The significance of this age-related unbalance is unknown. However, the presence of a great number of CD45RA+ T lymphocytes within the CD4+ and the CD8+ T cell subsets even in the peripheral blood of centenarians poses the problem of their origin (thymus? extrathymic sites?), of their functional role and of their lifespan. Moreover, the data on centenarians suggest that they may represent a very selected population where a slowing of immunosenescence occurs.
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- A Cossarizza
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, University of Modena, Italy.
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Bloom ET, Mostowski HS, Horvath JA. Does the age-related change in CD44-defined T-cell subsets have functional significance for cytotoxic T lymphocyte generation? Immunol Lett 1994; 40:251-8. [PMID: 7525465 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(94)00072-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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CD44 or Pgp-1 is a transmembrane leukocyte adhesion-related glycoprotein which is often expressed in greater density on the membranes of memory T lymphocytes (CD44hi) compared to naive T cells (CD44lo). The proportion of Pgphi or CD44hi cells among T cells is increased with advancing age. We examined the relevance of this alteration for the age-related decrease in the generation of allospecific CTL activity. The findings confirm the age-related increase in the frequency of CD44hi cells in spleens of aged mice of several strains, but also show interstrain variability in the magnitude of the increase (bm1 > C57BL/6 > BALB/c). In contrast, we found that after allo-stimulation, the proportion of cells bearing the memory phenotype is decreased in cells from aged mice, particularly within the CD8+ T cell subset. To determine if these observations reflected an alteration in the frequency or responsiveness of naive T cells, enriched populations of spleen cells depleted of CD44hi cells were prepared from spleen cells of young and aged mice, and stimulated in mixed lymphocyte culture. Enrichment for cells expressing the naive phenotype did not restore the ability of T cells from aged mice to generate allospecific CTL. Together, these findings suggest that (1) the age-related increase in frequency of splenic T cells expressing memory phenotype and concordant decrease in phenotypically naive cells, does not explain the age-related decrease in the ability to generate primary allo-CTL, and (2) naive cells from aged mice exhibit intrinsically compromised ability to generate CTL in response to primary alloantigenic stimulation.
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- E T Bloom
- Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Cummins AG, Eglinton BA, Gonzalez A, Roberton DM. Immune activation during infancy in healthy humans. J Clin Immunol 1994; 14:107-15. [PMID: 8195312 DOI: 10.1007/bf01541343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Immune activity during infancy was investigated using blood samples from 30 neonates and 52 healthy infants between 2 and 15 months of age attending for immunization. The purpose of this study was to assess the total immune activity of T cells using soluble interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) and interferon-gamma concentrations. These were compared with the proportion of CD4 CD45RO-, IL-2R (CD25)-, and transferrin receptor (CD71)-positive peripheral blood lymphocytes. The median duration of breast-feeding and of introduction of solid feeds was 4.2 and 4.0 months, respectively. Compared to neonates, the mean +/- SE soluble IL-2R concentration peaked at 4 months of age (1670 +/- 94 vs 3060 +/- 252 U/ml; P < 0.0001), as did pooled interferon-gamma levels. The percentage of CD4 CD45RO T cells remained low and the proportion of activated peripheral blood lymphocytes decreased during infancy. We conclude that noncirculatory immune activity is increased during infancy and this is associated with weaning.
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- A G Cummins
- Gastroenterology Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, Australia
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Oen K, Danell G, Stewart S, Wilkins J, Tazumi K, Jacobson K. Adhesion of peripheral blood lymphocytes of children with arthritis to human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Clin Exp Immunol 1994; 95:415-23. [PMID: 7511076 PMCID: PMC1535091 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1994.tb07012.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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To determine whether adhesion of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) may be enhanced, adhesion of PBL of children with JRA, children with seronegative spondyloarthropathies (SSA), age-appropriate and adult controls, to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) was assessed in vitro. B and CD4 T lymphocytes in initial, adherent, and non-adherent cell fraction were identified by flow cytometry. B lymphocytes of all the younger subjects combined had a higher adherence to activated HUVEC compared with B lymphocytes of the adult donors. Except for greater adherence of HLA-DR+ CD4 T cells, lymphocytes of children with JRA showed no enhanced adhesion to either unactivated or activated HUVEC. The percentage of B cells adherent to activated HUVEC in each of the subject groups was 1.5-3.6-fold higher than adherent CD4 T lymphocytes. Surface analyses indicated higher percentages of CD49d (alpha 4)+ and CD29 (beta 1)+ CD4 T lymphocytes in adherent cells, but less of a differential in CD49 (alpha 4)+ and no difference in CD29 (beta 1)+ B lymphocytes. There were fewer Leu-8 (L-selectin)+ B and Leu-8+ CD4 T cells among adherent cells. The data suggest a greater adhesive capacity of B lymphocytes compared with CD4 T lymphocytes which is unrelated to disease, and the possibility that B lymphocytes may utilize adhesion molecules distinct from those of CD4 T lymphocytes. Only a small subset of T cells of patients with JRA may have an enhanced capacity for adhesion to endothelium.
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- K Oen
- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Barrena MJ, Echaniz P, Garcia-Serrano C, Cuadrado E. Imbalance of the CD4+ subpopulations expressing CD45RA and CD29 antigens in the peripheral blood of adults and children with Down syndrome. Scand J Immunol 1993; 38:323-6. [PMID: 7692590 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.1993.tb01733.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Peripheral blood lymphoid subsets expressing either CD45RA or CD29 antigens, were quantified in 30 children and 59 adults with Down Syndrome and appropriate age-matched controls, by dual immunofluorescence and flow cytometry. Down's patients, both adults and children, displayed a significant decrease of CD4+CD45RA+ cells in comparison with the observed in their age-matched controls, but no difference was found in the CD4+CD29+ subset. These results show clearly the imbalance of these subpopulations in the peripheral blood of individuals with Down syndrome that result in the inversion of the CD45RA/CD29 ratio, due to a major reduction of the CD45RA subset. No obvious difference was found in the CD45RA/CD29 ratio within the CD4 negative cells. Abnormalities of these subpopulations could be indicative of early senescence of the immune system, since age-related changes in Down's persons were in parallel with those observed in normal individuals and the proportion of both subpopulations were roughly similar in Down's children and normal adults.
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- M J Barrena
- Sección de Immunología, Hospital Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu, San Sebastián, Spain
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Jamin C, Lamour A, Pennec YL, Hirn M, Le Goff P, Youinou P. Expression of CD5 and CD72 on T and B cell subsets in rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren's syndrome. Clin Exp Immunol 1993; 92:245-50. [PMID: 7683586 PMCID: PMC1554816 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1993.tb03387.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A minority of B cells express the CD5 marker, which is found on virtually all T cells, and CD72 has been defined as the CD5 ligand on the B cell membrane. The mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of the CD5 molecules was shown to be higher on CD4+CD29+ than CD4+CD45RA+ in peripheral blood (PB) and synovial fluid (SF) of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients (P < 0.0001 and < 0.001), and PB of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) patients and normal controls (P < 0.02 and < 0.03). This MFI declined once the CD4 expressed HLA-DR in PB of SS patients (P < 0.004) and normal controls (P < 0.02) or CD25 in PB of RA (P < 0.004) and SS patients (P < 0.0004). There was a correlation between the CD5 MFI on CD4+CD45RA+ and CD4+CD29+ in RA (P < 0.001) as well as SS (P < 0.0007) PB. The CD72 MFI was impressively higher on CD5+ than CD5- B cells in PB and SF of RA patients (P < 0.0001 and P < 0.005) and PB of SS patients (P < 0.005) and normal controls (P < 0.005). Our data suggest that, in association with CD4CD29, CD5 is involved in CD5+B/CD5+ B cell interactions in non-organ-specific autoimmune diseases.
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- C Jamin
- Laboratory of Immunology, Brest University Medical School Hospital, France
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Fu Y, Nathan DM, Li F, Li X, Faustman DL. Defective major histocompatibility complex class I expression on lymphoid cells in autoimmunity. J Clin Invest 1993; 91:2301-7. [PMID: 8486790 PMCID: PMC288235 DOI: 10.1172/jci116459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Lymphocytes from patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), a chronic autoimmune disease, have recently been shown to have decreased surface expression of MHC class I antigens. Since IDDM and other autoimmune diseases share a strong genetic association with MHC class II genes, which may in turn be linked to genes that affect MHC class I expression, we studied other autoimmune diseases to determine whether MHC class I expression is abnormal. Fresh PBLs were isolated from patients with IDDM, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Graves' disease, systemic lupus erythematosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjogren's syndrome. Nondiabetic and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients served as controls. MHC class I expression was measured with a conformationally dependent monoclonal antibody, W6/32. Freshly prepared PBLs from the autoimmune diseases studied and the corresponding fresh EBV-transformed B cell lines had decreased MHC class I expression compared with PBLs from normal volunteers and non-insulin-dependent (nonautoimmune) diabetic patients. Only 3 of more than 180 donors without IDDM or other clinically recognized autoimmune disease had persistently decreased MHC class I expression; one patient was treated with immunosuppressive drugs, and subsequent screening of the other two patients revealed high titers of autoantibodies, revealing clinically occult autoimmunity. Patients with nonautoimmune inflammation (osteomyelitis or tuberculosis) had normal MHC class I expression. Autoimmune diseases are characterized by decreased expression of MHC class I on lymphocytes. MHC class I expression may be necessary for self-tolerance, and abnormalities in such expression may lead to autoimmunity.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/genetics
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/genetics
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/immunology
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Genes, MHC Class II
- Graves Disease/genetics
- Graves Disease/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/analysis
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics
- Humans
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/genetics
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/immunology
- Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Lymphocytes/immunology
- Middle Aged
- Reference Values
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Thyroiditis, Autoimmune/genetics
- Thyroiditis, Autoimmune/immunology
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- Y Fu
- Immunobiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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Okumura M, Fujii Y, Takeuchi Y, Inada K, Nakahara K, Matsuda H. Age-related accumulation of LFA-1high cells in a CD8+CD45RAhigh T cell population. Eur J Immunol 1993; 23:1057-63. [PMID: 7682955 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830230512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The differential expression of CD45 isoforms has been suggested as a marker for stages of post-thymic T cell development, that is, CD45RA+CD45R0-T cells and CD45RA-CD45R0+ T cells are supposed to be virgin and memory cells respectively. Recently, several adhesion molecules have been shown to be up-regulated on the cell surface of memory T cells, and have been suggested to serve as a memory marker. In this study, we investigated the levels of LFA-1 expression on T cells in various subpopulations defined by CD45 isoform expression in donors of various ages. In CD4+ T cells, the proportion of LFA-1high cells among CD45RAhighCD45R0- T cells remained low in all age groups and did not show significant accumulation with age. CD4+CD45RA-CD45R0high T cells expressed LFA-1 at a higher level than CD4+CD45RAhighCD45R0- T cells. Thus, the currently prevailing view that CD45RA and CD45R0 can be markers for virgin and primed cells was consistent with LFA-1 expression in CD4+ T cell population. In CD8+ T cells, however, CD45RAhighCD45R0- T cells consisted of two distinct subpopulations, LFA-1low and LFA-1high cells, whereas CD45RA-CD45R0high T cells were almost exclusively LFA-1high. When CD29 expression was examined in place of LFA-1 expression, similar results were obtained; CD45RAhigh CD45R0- T cells consisted of two distinct subpopulations, CD29-to low and CD29high cells, while CD45RA-CD45R0high T cells were mostly CD29high. The proportion of LFA-1high cells in the CD8+CD45RAhigh T cell subpopulation increased significantly as a function of age (r = 0.9, p < 0.001). It ranged from 8% in a 14-year-old donor to 94% in a 79-year-old donor. Furthermore, the proportion of CD8+CD45RAhighLFA-1high cells in the CD8+ T cell population increased significantly as a function of age (r = 0.85, p < 0.001). On the other hand the proportion of LFA-1high cells in CD8+CD45RA- T cell subpopulation exceeded 90% in most donors irrespective of age. These results indicate that the CD8+CD45RAhighCD45R0- T cell subpopulation contains a considerable number of LFA-1high cells and CD29high cells, phenotypically similar to previously activated cells. Thus, in terms of LFA-1 and CD29 expressions, the simple scheme that CD45RA is a marker of virgin cells is not applicable to the CD8+ T cell population.
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- M Okumura
- First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan
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Schmalstieg FC, Wirt DP, Adkins LT, Brooks EG, Stansberry SD, Swischuk LE, Goldman AS. Postnatal development of T lymphocytes in a novel X-linked immunodeficiency disease. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1992; 64:71-7. [PMID: 1606754 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(92)90061-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We previously reported an X-linked combined immunodeficiency disease (CID) characterized by immune deficiencies and complicating infections that were more moderate than those found in severe CID (SCID). Since other unstudied males in the family died in infancy, we questioned whether this T cell defect was more profound in early life. Subsequently, the development of blood T cells in an affected newborn male was examined. T cells were virtually undetectable at 48 hr. Over the next several months, CD4+ T cells (principally CD45RO+) rose to levels similar to those found in older affected males, but CD8+ T cells developed more slowly and never attained levels found in other affected males. Thus, this disease in early life mimics SCID and may pose a higher risk of fatal infections to affected individuals during that period. Finally, we speculate that the genetic defect may disrupt intrathymic development or selection of T cells.
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- F C Schmalstieg
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0369
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Williams LL, Shannon BT, Chambers RB, Leguire LE, Davidorf FH. Systemic immunostimulation after retinal laser treatment in retinitis pigmentosa. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1992; 64:78-83. [PMID: 1606755 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(92)90062-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Systemic immunostimulation followed an experimental treatment trial of scatter argon laser photocoagulation directed to the retina of one eye of 10 patients with heredo-degenerative retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Significantly increased RP lymphocyte CD25, CD26, and CD4/CD26 activation epitope expressions over prelaser values and controls were found with a normalization of soluble interleukin-2 receptor secretion after laser treatment. Serum interferon-gamma was low both pre- and postlaser. Interestingly, when a panel of viral antibodies was tested, only those to rubella virus were elevated in the early postlaser period. The character of RP immunostimulation after laser-induced inflammation could be consistent with an antigenic stimulus from laser-released retinal proteins which might be of autoimmune or latent infectious origin. Enhanced immune responses may be a common but unrecognized sequellae of retinal laser.
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- L L Williams
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus
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Crockard AD, Boyd NA, McNeill TA, McCluskey DR. CD4 lymphocyte subset abnormalities associated with impaired delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions in patients with X-linked agammaglobulinaemia. Clin Exp Immunol 1992; 88:29-34. [PMID: 1373352 PMCID: PMC1554369 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1992.tb03034.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Circulating CD4 lymphocyte subset (CD45RA; CD45RO; CD29; Leu8) levels were determined in nine patients with X-linked agammaglobulinaemia (XLA), nine patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVI) and in 18 age- and sex-matched controls. CD4CD45RO and CD4CD29 cells were significantly lower (P less than 0.01) in the XLA patient group (CD45RO, 15.7 +/- 10.2%; CD4CD29, 32.1 +/- 14.6%) compared with CVI patients (61.8 +/- 25.4%; 60.1 +/- 11.2%) and normal controls (43.7 +/- 22.3%, 54.5 +/- 22.0%). The levels of CD4CD45RA and CD4Leu8 cells were not abnormal in the XLA patient group. No selective reduction in CD4 subsets was observed in the CVI patient group. Delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity testing of five XLA and five CVI patients revealed a significantly reduced response to recall antigens in patients with XLA. This may relate to the deficiency of circulating memory T cells observed in these patients.
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- A D Crockard
- Regional Immunology Laboratory, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Murphy M, Epstein LB. Down syndrome (DS) peripheral blood contains phenotypically mature CD3+TCR alpha, beta+ cells but abnormal proportions of TCR alpha, beta+, TCR gamma, delta+, and CD4+ CD45RA+ cells: evidence for an inefficient release of mature T cells by the DS thymus. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1992; 62:245-51. [PMID: 1530912 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(92)90079-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Down syndrome (DS) thymocytes have a markedly diminished proportion of cells expressing high levels of the alpha, beta T cell receptor (TCR alpha, beta) and the associated CD3 molecule. Thus, we examined the surface expression of TCR alpha, beta and CD3 as well as TCR gamma, delta, CD4, CD8, CD16, and CD45RA on peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from 13 noninstitutionalized subjects with DS and 13 closely age-matched sibling controls using immunofluorescence and flow cytometry. DS PBL expressed high surface levels of TCR alpha, beta and CD3, but, as compared to controls, they had a lower proportion of cells expressing TCR alpha, beta (61% vs. 68%, respectively; P less than or equal to 0.05). Moreover, the absolute number of TCR alpha, beta+ cells was considerably lower for DS subjects than for controls (1634 +/- 229 vs. 2763 +/- 530, respectively; P less than or equal to 0.05). DS subjects had a markedly higher proportion of cells expressing TCR gamma, delta than did the controls (12% vs. 7%, respectively; P less than or equal to 0.02). In addition, DS subjects had a lower proportion of CD4+CD45RA+ cells than controls (22% vs. 35%, respectively; P less than or equal to 0.02), representing naive T cells which have recently emigrated from the thymus. The imbalance in the proportions of T cell subpopulations we have observed in DS PBL may contribute to the increased susceptibility to infection associated with DS and may represent a diminished efficiency in the production of newly differentiated T cells by the DS thymus.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, Differentiation/analysis
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/analysis
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- CD3 Complex
- CD4 Antigens/analysis
- CD8 Antigens/analysis
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Down Syndrome/genetics
- Down Syndrome/immunology
- Eosinophils/cytology
- Histocompatibility Antigens/analysis
- Humans
- Infant
- Leukocyte Common Antigens
- Leukocyte Count
- Lymphocytes/cytology
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/analysis
- Receptors, Fc/analysis
- Receptors, IgG
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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- M Murphy
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Hoeger PH, Mayer L. Expansion of a suppressor T-cell population associated with the hyper-IgM syndrome and generalized lymphadenopathy. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1991; 60:118-27. [PMID: 1646087 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(91)90117-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Immunoglobulin deficiency with increased IgM (hyper-IgM recurrent infection syndrome) is thought to be due to a defect of IgM/IgG isotype switching in B cells. Considerable genetic heterogeneity (X-linked, autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive inheritance, acquired forms) exists. We describe a case of hyper-IgM syndrome associated with massive lymphadenopathy in a 10-year-old girl with normal B-cell function. Absolute and relative increases of T-suppressor cells (CD8+) and a decrease of circulating CD4+ ("helper") cells were observed. The CD4+ cells present were all of the CD45R+ subtype, representing relatively immature ("naive") helper cells. In contrast, the number of CD4+ cells within the lymph nodes was increased. When tested fractionally, the patient's CD8+ cells selectively inhibited synthesis of IgG and IgA by normal B cells, but spared IgM. Normal allogenic T cells could induce IgG and IgA production by the patient's B cells. These findings suggest (a) a state of selective suppression of IgG and IgA synthesis with exclusive production of IgM, and (b) an abnormal recirculation of immature T-helper cells. This case represents a variant of this heterogeneous syndrome resembling the findings in neonatal lymphocytes and can be distinguished from the "adult" form of hyper-IgM syndrome which may be due to defective switch T cells.
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- P H Hoeger
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Hamburg, Germany
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Watson W, Oen K, Ramdahin R, Harman C. Immunoglobulin and cytokine production by neonatal lymphocytes. Clin Exp Immunol 1991; 83:169-74. [PMID: 1988225 PMCID: PMC1535452 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1991.tb05609.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Growth and differentiation of cord blood B cells were studied using T cell-depleted populations. In the absence of in vitro activation, cord blood B cells proliferated in response to cytokines including interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interleukin-4 (IL-4); anti-mu-stimulated cord B cells had a lesser response to IL-2 than adult cells. IgM synthesis by cord blood B cells was enhanced by interleukin-6 (IL-6) and decreased by IL-2. In cultures activated by Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC), cord blood B cells produced lesser increases in IgM than adult B cells regardless of the cytokine added. Cord blood B cells produced no IgG or IgA with any cytokine preparation with or without SAC activation. Supernatants of cord blood T cells pulse-stimulated with phytohaemagglutinin and phorbol myristate acetate contained less IL-2 and IL-6 and had less growth and differentiation activity than adult T cell supernatants. The results confirm a limited cord blood B cell response and also suggest a limitation in production of B cell stimulatory lymphokines by cord blood T cells.
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- W Watson
- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Zwingenberger K, Harms G, Pedrosa C, Omena S, Sandkamp B, Neifer S. Determinants of the immune response in visceral leishmaniasis: evidence for predominance of endogenous interleukin 4 over interferon-gamma production. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1990; 57:242-9. [PMID: 2145107 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(90)90038-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Accumulating evidence points toward an antagonism between TH1 and TH2 focused immune responses decisive for the outcome of parasitic infections with leishmaniae. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and interleukin 4 (IL4), the principal cytokines involved in these pathways, as well as IgE and the IgG subclasses differentially modulated by these cytokines, were therefore assessed in 18 Brazilian patients with visceral leishmaniasis. The results are compared to those of a local control group. IL4 was detected in all patient sera but in only one control. Low concentrations of IFN-gamma where detectable in 50% of the Brazilian controls but in only two patients. While group medians of mitogen-induced in vitro synthesis of IL4 and IFN-gamma were similar, release of these lymphokines correlated inversely in patients (Spearman's rho = -0.84). Elevations of serum IgE complement the lymphokine data to indicate prominent TH2 type responses in clinical infections with Leishmania donovani.
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- K Zwingenberger
- Landesinstitut für Tropenmedizin, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
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Kasahara Y, Miyawaki T, Kato K, Kanegane H, Yachie A, Yokoi T, Taniguchi N. Role of interleukin 6 for differential responsiveness of naive and memory CD4+ T cells in CD2-mediated activation. J Exp Med 1990; 172:1419-24. [PMID: 1977837 PMCID: PMC2188655 DOI: 10.1084/jem.172.5.1419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The present study was undertaken to elucidate different requirements for CD2-mediated activation of naive (CD45RO-) and memory (CD45RO+) CD4+ T cells. A mitogenic combination of anti-CD2 (anti-T11(2) and anti-T11(3] mAbs could effectively induce the proliferation of memory CD4+ T cells even in the absence of monocytes. In marked contrast, naive CD4+ T cells did not disclose any proliferative responses to anti-CD2 mAbs, when monocytes were absent in culture. This differential responsiveness of naive and memory CD4+ T cells appeared to be related largely to a difference in IL-6-producing ability between both populations. IL-6 among monocyte-derived cytokines could correct unresponsiveness of naive CD4+ T cells to anti-CD2 stimulation. Unlike naive CD4+ T cells, memory CD4+ T cells produced IL-6 by themselves, with its mRNA being expressed on anti-CD2 stimulation. Anti-IL-6R mAb significantly inhibited proliferation of memory CD4+ T cells seen in the anti-CD2-stimulated cultures without monocytes, indicating the involvement of their own production of IL-6 in CD2-mediated activation. The results suggest an essential role of IL-6 for triggering of CD4+ T cells via the CD2 molecule.
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- Y Kasahara
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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