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Eberlein J, Davenport B, Nguyen TT, Victorino F, Jhun K, van der Heide V, Kuleshov M, Ma'ayan A, Kedl R, Homann D. Chemokine Signatures of Pathogen-Specific T Cells I: Effector T Cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2020; 205:2169-2187. [PMID: 32948687 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The choreography of complex immune responses, including the priming, differentiation, and modulation of specific effector T cell populations generated in the immediate wake of an acute pathogen challenge, is in part controlled by chemokines, a large family of mostly secreted molecules involved in chemotaxis and other patho/physiological processes. T cells are both responsive to various chemokine cues and a relevant source for certain chemokines themselves; yet, the actual range, regulation, and role of effector T cell-derived chemokines remains incompletely understood. In this study, using different in vivo mouse models of viral and bacterial infection as well as protective vaccination, we have defined the entire spectrum of chemokines produced by pathogen-specific CD8+ and CD4+T effector cells and delineated several unique properties pertaining to the temporospatial organization of chemokine expression patterns, synthesis and secretion kinetics, and cooperative regulation. Collectively, our results position the "T cell chemokine response" as a notably prominent, largely invariant, yet distinctive force at the forefront of pathogen-specific effector T cell activities and establish novel practical and conceptual approaches that may serve as a foundation for future investigations into the role of T cell-produced chemokines in infectious and other diseases.
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- Jens Eberlein
- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029; and.,Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029; and.,Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045; .,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045.,Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Faber C, Juel HB, Jensen BAH, Christensen JP, Prause JU, Thomsen AR, Nissen MH. Chemokine Expression in Murine RPE/Choroid in Response to Systemic Viral Infection and Elevated Levels of Circulating Interferon-γ. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2019; 60:192-201. [PMID: 30654385 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.18-25721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose To examine how circulating immune mediators in vivo may affect gene and protein expression at the RPE/choroid interface. Methods Young mice were systemically infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) or continuously infused with IFN-γ. RPE/choroid was isolated and analyzed with whole-transcriptome gene expression microarrays. Selected gene expression findings were validated at the protein level. Results Both the systemic immune activation from virus infection and the sterile systemically increased level of IFN-γ resulted in increased expression of chemokine ligands, chemokine receptors, and early complement components in isolates of RPE/choroid. These findings were largely absent from LCMV-infected mice deficient in either the interferon α/β receptor or IFN-γ. Conclusions Together, these findings demonstrate that acute systemic immune activation results in a local response at the RPE/choroid interface that may include chemokine-dependent recruitment of inflammatory cells and engagement of the complement system. This may represent a link between the systemic low-grade inflammation and the retinal pathology observed in several multifactorial entities such as aging, AMD, and diabetes.
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- Carsten Faber
- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Ophthalmology, Rigshospitalet-Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
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- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Eye Pathology Section, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Schøller AS, Fonnes M, Nazerai L, Christensen JP, Thomsen AR. Local Antigen Encounter Is Essential for Establishing Persistent CD8 + T-Cell Memory in the CNS. Front Immunol 2019; 10:351. [PMID: 30886617 PMCID: PMC6409353 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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While the brain is considered an immune-privileged site, the CNS may nevertheless be the focus of immune mediated inflammation in the case of infection and certain autoimmune diseases, e.g., multiple sclerosis. As in other tissues, it has been found that acute T-cell infiltration may be followed by establishment of persistent local T-cell memory. To improve our understanding regarding the regulation of putative tissue resident memory T (Trm) cells in CNS, we devised a new model system for studying the generation of Trm cells in this site. To this purpose, we exploited the fact that the CNS may be a sanctuary for adenoviral infection, and to minimize virus-induced disease, we chose replication-deficient adenoviruses for infection of the CNS. Non-replicating adenoviruses are known to be highly immunogenic, and our studies demonstrate that intracerebral inoculation causes marked local T-cell recruitment, which is followed by persistent infiltration of the CNS parenchyma by antigen specific CD8+ T cells. Phenotypical analysis of CNS infiltrating antigen specific CD8+ T cells was consistent with these cells being Trms. Regarding the long-term stability of the infiltrate, resident CD8+ T cells expressed high levels of the anti-apoptotic molecule Bcl-2 as well as the proliferation marker Ki-67 suggesting that the population is maintained through steady homeostatic proliferation. Functionally, memory CD8+ T cells from CNS matched peripheral memory cells with regard to capacity for ex vivo cytotoxicity and cytokine production. Most importantly, our experiments revealed a key role for local antigen encounter in the establishment of sustained CD8+ T-cell memory in the brain. Inflammation in the absence of cognate antigen only led to limited and transient infiltration by antigen specific CD8+ T cells. Together these results indicate that memory CD8+ T cells residing in the CNS predominantly mirror previous local infections and immune responses to local autoantigens.
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- Amalie S Schøller
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bentivoglio M, Kristensson K, Rottenberg ME. Circumventricular Organs and Parasite Neurotropism: Neglected Gates to the Brain? Front Immunol 2018; 9:2877. [PMID: 30619260 PMCID: PMC6302769 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Circumventricular organs (CVOs), neural structures located around the third and fourth ventricles, harbor, similarly to the choroid plexus, vessels devoid of a blood-brain barrier (BBB). This enables them to sense immune-stimulatory molecules in the blood circulation, but may also increase chances of exposure to microbes. In spite of this, attacks to CVOs by microbes are rarely described. It is here highlighted that CVOs and choroid plexus can be infected by pathogens circulating in the bloodstream, providing a route for brain penetration, as shown by infections with the parasites Trypanosoma brucei. Immune responses elicited by pathogens or systemic infections in the choroid plexus and CVOs are briefly outlined. From the choroid plexus trypanosomes can seed into the ventricles and initiate accelerated infiltration of T cells and parasites in periventricular areas. The highly motile trypanosomes may also enter the brain parenchyma from the median eminence, a CVO located at the base of the third ventricle, by crossing the border into the BBB-protected hypothalamic arcuate nuclei. A gate may, thus, be provided for trypanosomes to move into brain areas connected to networks of regulation of circadian rhythms and sleep-wakefulness, to which other CVOs are also connected. Functional imbalances in these networks characterize human African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness. They are distinct from the sickness response to bacterial infections, but can occur in common neuropsychiatric diseases. Altogether the findings lead to the question: does the neglect in reporting microbe attacks to CVOs reflect lack of awareness in investigations or of gate-opening capability by microbes?
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- Marina Bentivoglio
- Department of Neuroscience Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mundt S, Engelhardt B, Kirk CJ, Groettrup M, Basler M. Inhibition and deficiency of the immunoproteasome subunit LMP7 attenuates LCMV-induced meningitis. Eur J Immunol 2015; 46:104-13. [PMID: 26464284 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201545578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 09/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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In addition to antigen processing, immunoproteasomes were recently shown to exert functions influencing cytokine production by monocytes and T cells, T-helper cell differentiation, and T-cell survival. Moreover, selective inhibition of the immunoproteasome subunit LMP7 ameliorated symptoms of autoimmune diseases including CD4(+) T-cell mediated EAE. In this study, we show that LMP7 also plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV)-induced meningitis mediated by CTLs. Mice lacking functional LMP7 display delayed and reduced clinical signs of disease accompanied by a strongly decreased inflammatory infiltration into the brain. Interestingly, we found that selective inhibition and genetic deficiency of LMP7 affect the pathogenesis of LCMV-induced meningitis in a distinct manner. Our findings support the important role of LMP7 in inflammatory disorders and suggest immunoproteasome inhibition as a novel strategy against inflammation-induced neuropathology in the CNS.
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- Sarah Mundt
- Division of Immunology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.,Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology (KoRS-CB), University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Division of Immunology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.,Biotechnology Institute Thurgau at the University of Konstanz (BITg), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
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- Division of Immunology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.,Biotechnology Institute Thurgau at the University of Konstanz (BITg), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
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Huber AK, Irani DN. Is the concept of central nervous system immune privilege irrelevant in the setting of acute infection? Front Oncol 2015; 5:99. [PMID: 25973396 PMCID: PMC4412012 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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- Amanda K Huber
- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical School , Ann Arbor, MI , USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical School , Ann Arbor, MI , USA
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Libbey JE, Fujinami RS. Adaptive immune response to viral infections in the central nervous system. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2014. [PMID: 25015488 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-0.00010-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Jane E Libbey
- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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Libbey JE, Fujinami RS. Adaptive immune response to viral infections in the central nervous system. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2014; 123:225-47. [PMID: 25015488 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-53488-0.00010-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Jane E Libbey
- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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Tryps and trips: cell trafficking across the 100-year-old blood-brain barrier. Trends Neurosci 2014; 37:325-33. [PMID: 24780507 PMCID: PMC4045197 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2014] [Revised: 03/27/2014] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The blood–brain barrier (BBB) was discovered one century ago by the use of trypan dyes. The discovery initiated the targeted brain delivery of drugs. Trypan dyes were developed to kill African trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness. Trypanosomes disclose cell trafficking in and out of the BBB. Disturbed gating at the BBB may cause neurodegeneration.
One hundred years ago, Edwin E. Goldmann discovered the blood–brain barrier (BBB) using trypan dyes. These dyes were developed and named by Paul Ehrlich during his search for drugs to kill African trypanosomes (extracellular parasites that cause sleeping sickness) while sparing host cells. For Ehrlich, this was the first strategy based on the ‘chemotherapy’ concept he had introduced. The discovery of the BBB revealed, however, the difficulties in drug delivery to the brain. Mechanisms by which parasites enter, dwell, and exit the brain currently provide novel views on cell trafficking across the BBB. These mechanisms also highlight the role of pericytes and endocytosis regulation in BBB functioning and in disrupted BBB gating, which may be involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration.
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a structural and functional barrier that protects the central nervous system (CNS) from invasion by blood-borne pathogens including parasites. However, some intracellular and extracellular parasites can traverse the BBB during the course of infection and cause neurological disturbances and/or damage which are at times fatal. The means by which parasites cross the BBB and how the immune system controls the parasites within the brain are still unclear. In this review we present the current understanding of the processes utilized by two human neuropathogenic parasites, Trypanosoma brucei spp and Toxoplasma gondii, to go across the BBB and consequences of CNS invasion. We also describe briefly other parasites that can invade the brain and how they interact with or circumvent the BBB. The roles played by parasite-derived and host-derived molecules during parasitic and white blood cell invasion of the brain are discussed.
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- Willias Masocha
- Department of Applied Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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Amin DN, Vodnala SK, Masocha W, Sun B, Kristensson K, Rottenberg ME. Distinct Toll-like receptor signals regulate cerebral parasite load and interferon α/β and tumor necrosis factor α-dependent T-cell infiltration in the brains of Trypanosoma brucei-infected mice. J Infect Dis 2011; 205:320-32. [PMID: 22116836 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The penetration of T cells and trypanosomes into the brain parenchyma is a major pathogenetic event in African trypanosomiasis. METHODS The role of innate immune responses in the penetration of T cells and Trypanosoma brucei brucei into the brain was studied in knockout mice by using double immunofluorescent staining and real-time polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS We demonstrate that Toll-like receptor (TLR)-MyD88-mediated signaling is required for T-cell and parasite penetration into the brain and microglial activation, besides controlling parasitemia and antigen-specific T-cell activation. Among different TLR-deficient mice studied, TLR9 mediated parasitemia control and T-cell penetration into the brain. TLR-MyD88 signals increased levels of interferon (IFN) β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α transcripts in the brains of infected mice and both TNF-α and IFN-α/β, receptors promoted T-cell and trypanosoma infiltration into the brain parenchyma. Both resident and infiltrating inflammatory cells in the brain controlled parasite densities in a TLR2- and TLR9-MyD88-mediated manner. However, neither IFN-α/β nor TNF-α contributed to parasite control in the brain. CONCLUSIONS Our data indicate that innate immune TLR signals stimulate the expression of TNF-α and IFN-α/β that initiate brain invasion of T cells and trypanosomes, and control T. brucei brucei load in the brain by molecules distinct from these.
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- Daniel Ndem Amin
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Inflammation in neuroviral diseases. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2010; 117:899-906. [PMID: 20390431 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-010-0402-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2010] [Accepted: 03/24/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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During any viral infection of the central nervous system (CNS), the extent and nature of neural cell alterations are dictated by the localization of virus replication and, possibly, persistence. However, one additional source of CNS damage comes from the immune response that develops following CNS viral infection. Indeed, despite of its major role in controlling virus spread in the infected CNS, the immune system is equipped with numerous molecular effectors shared with the nervous system that may greatly alter the homeostasis and function of neural cells. Proinflammatory cytokines and metalloproteases belong to this inflammatory cascade. Besides neurovirulence, the crosstalk engaged between neural and immune cells is a major factor determining the outcome of neuroviral infections.
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Pinschewer DD, Schedensack M, Bergthaler A, Horvath E, Brück W, Löhning M, Merkler D. T cells can mediate viral clearance from ependyma but not from brain parenchyma in a major histocompatibility class I- and perforin-independent manner. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 133:1054-66. [PMID: 20354003 PMCID: PMC7110187 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Viral infection of the central nervous system can lead to disability and death. Yet the majority of viral infections with central nervous system involvement resolve with only mild clinical manifestations, if any. This is generally attributed to efficient elimination of the infection from the brain coverings, i.e. the meninges, ependyma and chorioplexus, which are the primary targets of haematogeneous viral spread. How the immune system is able to purge these structures from viral infection with only minimal detrimental effects is still poorly understood. In the present work we studied how an attenuated lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus can be cleared from the central nervous system in the absence of overt disease. We show that elimination of the virus from brain ependyma, but not from brain parenchyma, could be achieved by a T cell-dependent mechanism operating independently of major histocompatibility class I antigens and perforin. Considering that cytotoxic T lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity is a leading cause of viral immunopathology and tissue damage, our findings may explain why the most common viral intruders of the central nervous system rarely represent a serious threat to our health.
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- Daniel D Pinschewer
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, W.H.O. Collaborating Centre for Neonatal Vaccinology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus-induced mortality in mice is triggered by edema and brain herniation. J Virol 2010; 84:312-20. [PMID: 19828618 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00727-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Although much is known about lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection and the subsequent immune response in its natural murine host, some crucial aspects of LCMV-mediated pathogenesis remain undefined, including the underlying basis of the characteristic central nervous system disease that occurs following intracerebral (i.c.) challenge. We show that the classic seizures and paresis that occur following i.c. infection of adult, immunocompetent mice with LCMV are accompanied by anatomical and histological changes that are consistent with brain herniation, likely of the uncal subtype, as a causative basis for disease and precipitous death. Both by water weight determinations and by magnetic resonance imaging of infected brain tissues, edema was detected only at the terminal stages of disease, likely caused by the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid from the ventricles into the parenchyma. Furthermore, death was accompanied by unilateral pupillary dilation, which is indicative of uncal herniation. While immunohistochemical analysis revealed periventricular inflammation and a loss of integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), these events preceded seizures by 2 to 3 days. Moreover, surviving perforin knockout mice showed barrier permeability equivalent to that of moribund, immunocompetent mice; thus, BBB damage does not appear to be the basis of LCMV-induced neuropathogenesis. Importantly, brain herniation can occur in humans as a consequence of injuries that would be predicted to increase intracranial pressure, including inflammation, head trauma, and brain tumors. Thus, a mechanistic dissection of the basis of LCMV neuropathogenesis may be informative for the development of interventive therapies to prevent this typically fatal human condition.
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Christensen JE, Thomsen AR. Co-ordinating innate and adaptive immunity to viral infection: mobility is the key. APMIS 2009; 117:338-55. [PMID: 19400861 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2009.02451.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The host counters a viral infection through a complex response made up of components belonging to both the innate and the adaptive immune system. In this report, we review the mechanisms underlying this response, how it is induced and how it is co-ordinated. As cell-cell communication represents the very essence of immune system physiology, a key to a rapid, efficient and optimally regulated immune response is the ability of the involved cells to rapidly shift between a stationary and a mobile state, combined with stringent regulation of cell migration during the mobile state. Through the co-ordinated recruitment of different cell types intended to work in concert, cellular co-operation is optimized particularly under conditions that may involve rare cells. Consequently, a major focus is placed on presenting an overview of the co-operative events and the associated cell migration, which is essential in mounting an efficient host response and co-ordinating innate and adaptive immunity during a primary viral infection.
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- Jeanette Erbo Christensen
- Institute of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, The Panum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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