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Christensen PKF, Hansen AK, Skov S, Engkilde K, Larsen J, Høyer-Hansen MH, Koch J. Sustaining the T-cell activity in xenografted psoriasis skin. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0278390. [PMID: 36649237 PMCID: PMC9844869 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Xenografting of psoriasis skin onto immune deficient mice has been widely used to obtain proof-of-principle of new drug candidates. However, the lack of human T-cell activity in the grafts limits the use of the model. Here, we show that xenografting of lesional skin from psoriasis patients onto human IL-2 NOG mice results in increased numbers of human CD3+ cells in the grafts, axillary lymph nodes and blood from human IL-2 NOG mice compared to C.B-17 scid and NOG mice. In addition, disease relevant human cytokine levels were higher in graft lysates and serum from human IL-2 NOG mice. However, the epidermis was lacking and no efficacy of ustekinumab, a human anti-P40 antibody targeting both IL-12 and IL-23, was shown. Thus, despite the sustained T-cell activity, the model needs further investigations and validation to capture more aspects of psoriasis.
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- Pernille Kristine Fisker Christensen
- LEO Pharma A/S, Ballerup, Denmark
- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Chandrasekharan P, Fung KB, Zhou XY, Cui W, Colson C, Mai D, Jeffris K, Huynh Q, Saayujya C, Kabuli L, Fellows B, Lu Y, Yu E, Tay ZW, Zheng B, Fong L, Conolly SM. Non-radioactive and sensitive tracking of neutrophils towards inflammation using antibody functionalized magnetic particle imaging tracers. Nanotheranostics 2021; 5:240-255. [PMID: 33614400 PMCID: PMC7893534 DOI: 10.7150/ntno.50721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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White blood cells (WBCs) are a key component of the mammalian immune system and play an essential role in surveillance, defense, and adaptation against foreign pathogens. Apart from their roles in the active combat of infection and the development of adaptive immunity, immune cells are also involved in tumor development and metastasis. Antibody-based therapeutics have been developed to regulate (i.e. selectively activate or inhibit immune function) and harness immune cells to fight malignancy. Alternatively, non-invasive tracking of WBC distribution can diagnose inflammation, infection, fevers of unknown origin (FUOs), and cancer. Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is a non-invasive, non-radioactive, and sensitive medical imaging technique that uses safe superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIOs) as tracers. MPI has previously been shown to track therapeutic stem cells for over 87 days with a ~200 cell detection limit. In the current work, we utilized antibody-conjugated SPIOs specific to neutrophils for in situ labeling, and non-invasive and radiation-free tracking of these inflammatory cells to sites of infection and inflammation in an in vivo murine model of lipopolysaccharide-induced myositis. MPI showed sensitive detection of inflammation with a contrast-to-noise ratio of ~8-13.
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- Prashant Chandrasekharan
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Group in Bioengineering, California, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Group in Bioengineering, California, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Group in Bioengineering, California, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Cleary SJ, Hobbs C, Amison RT, Arnold S, O'Shaughnessy BG, Lefrançais E, Mallavia B, Looney MR, Page CP, Pitchford SC. LPS-induced Lung Platelet Recruitment Occurs Independently from Neutrophils, PSGL-1, and P-Selectin. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2020; 61:232-243. [PMID: 30768917 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2018-0182oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Platelets are recruited to inflammatory foci and contribute to host defense and inflammatory responses. Compared with platelet recruitment in hemostasis and thrombosis, the mechanisms of platelet recruitment in inflammation and host defense are poorly understood. Neutrophil recruitment to lung airspaces after inhalation of bacterial LPS requires platelets and PSGL-1 in mice. Given this association between platelets and neutrophils, we investigated whether recruitment of platelets to lungs of mice after LPS inhalation was dependent on PSGL-1, P-selectin, or interaction with neutrophils. BALB/c mice were administered intranasal LPS (O55:B5, 5 mg/kg) and, 48 hours later, lungs were collected and platelets and neutrophils quantified in tissue sections by immunohistochemistry. The effects of functional blocking antibody treatments targeting the platelet-neutrophil adhesion molecules, P-selectin or PSGL-1, or treatment with a neutrophil-depleting antibody targeting Ly6G, were tested on the extent of LPS-induced lung platelet recruitment. Separately in Pf4-Cre × mTmG mice, two-photon intravital microscopy was used to image platelet adhesion in live lungs. Inhalation of LPS caused both platelet and neutrophil recruitment to the lung vasculature. However, decreasing lung neutrophil recruitment by blocking PSGL-1, P-selectin, or depleting blood neutrophils had no effect on lung platelet recruitment. Lung intravital imaging revealed increased adhesion of platelets in the lung microvasculature which was not associated with thrombus formation. In conclusion, platelet recruitment to lungs in response to LPS occurs through mechanisms distinct from those mediating neutrophil recruitment, or the occurrence of pulmonary emboli.
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- Simon J Cleary
- 1Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and
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- 2the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and
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- 1Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and
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- 1Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and
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- 1Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and
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- 3Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- 3Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- 3Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- 1Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and
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- 1Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and
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Zhang J, Han X, Shi H, Gao Y, Qiao X, Li H, Wei M, Zeng X. Lung resided monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells contribute to premetastatic niche formation by enhancing MMP-9 expression. Mol Cell Probes 2019; 50:101498. [PMID: 31891749 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2019.101498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In cancer patients, the prevalence of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) is correlated with the degree of malignancy. In the present study, we investigated the role of circulating M-MDSCs in premetastatic niche formation using a mouse syngeneic tumor model and found that there was an increased frequency of M-MDSCs in the peripheral blood of tumor-bearing mice. M-MDSCs tracking and lung tissue histological analyses revealed that the malignant conditions promote the residence of circulating M-MDSCs and increased tumor cell arrest in the lungs. We further found that MMP-9 expression was increased in the circulating M-MDSCs and the administration of an MMP-9 inhibitor suppressed M-MDSCs transplantation-induced tumor cell arrest in the lung. Therefore, our findings suggest that the expansion of circulating M-MDSCs during tumor progression contributes to premetastatic niche formation by increasing MMP-9 expression.
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- Juechao Zhang
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China; Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
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Lauková L, Konečná B, Bábíčková J, Wagnerová A, Melišková V, Vlková B, Celec P. Exogenous deoxyribonuclease has a protective effect in a mouse model of sepsis. Biomed Pharmacother 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2017.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Involvement of IL-1 in the Maintenance of Masseter Muscle Activity and Glucose Homeostasis. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0143635. [PMID: 26599867 PMCID: PMC4658060 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Physical exercise reportedly stimulates IL-1 production within working skeletal muscles, but its physiological significance remains unknown due to the existence of two distinct IL-1 isoforms, IL-1α and IL-1β. The regulatory complexities of these two isoforms, in terms of which cells in muscles produce them and their distinct/redundant biological actions, have yet to be elucidated. Taking advantage of our masticatory behavior (Restrained/Gnawing) model, we herein show that IL-1α/1β-double-knockout (IL-1-KO) mice exhibit compromised masseter muscle (MM) activity which is at least partially attributable to abnormalities of glucose handling (rapid glycogen depletion along with impaired glucose uptake) and dysfunction of IL-6 upregulation in working MMs. In wild-type mice, masticatory behavior clearly increased IL-1β mRNA expression but no incremental protein abundance was detectable in whole MM homogenates, whereas immunohistochemical staining analysis revealed that both IL-1α- and IL-1β-immunopositive cells were recruited around blood vessels in the perimysium of MMs after masticatory behavior. In addition to the aforementioned phenotype of IL-1-KO mice, we found the IL-6 mRNA and protein levels in MMs after masticatory behavior to be significantly lower in IL-1-KO than in WT. Thus, our findings confirm that the locally-increased IL-1 elicited by masticatory behavior, although present small in amounts, contributes to supporting MM activity by maintaining normal glucose homeostasis in these muscles. Our data also underscore the importance of IL-1-mediated local interplay between autocrine myokines including IL-6 and paracrine cytokines in active skeletal muscles. This interplay is directly involved in MM performance and fatigability, perhaps mediated through maintaining muscular glucose homeostasis.
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Lee PY, Wang JX, Parisini E, Dascher CC, Nigrovic PA. Ly6 family proteins in neutrophil biology. J Leukoc Biol 2013; 94:585-94. [PMID: 23543767 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0113014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The murine Ly6 complex was identified 35 years ago using antisera to lymphocytes. With advances in mAb development, molecular cloning, and genome sequencing, >20 structurally related genes have been identified within this complex on chromosome 15. All members of the Ly6 family and their human homologues share the highly conserved LU domain and most also possess a GPI anchor. Interestingly, many Ly6 proteins are expressed in a lineage-specific fashion, and their expression often correlates with stages of differentiation. As a result, Ly6 proteins are frequently used as surface markers for leukocyte subset identification and targets for antibody-mediated depletion. Murine neutrophils display prominent surface expression of several Ly6 proteins, including Ly6B, Ly6C, and Ly6G. Although the physiology of most Ly6 proteins is not well understood, a role in neutrophil functions, such as migration, is recognized increasingly. In this review, we will provide an overview of the Ly6 complex and discuss, in detail, the specific Ly6 proteins implicated in neutrophil biology.
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- Pui Y Lee
- 1.Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, One Jimmy Fund Way, Smith 516c, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Qiu C, Li Y, Li M, Li M, Liu X, McSharry C, Xu D. Anti-interleukin-33 inhibits cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation in mice. Immunology 2013; 138:76-82. [PMID: 23078031 DOI: 10.1111/imm.12020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Revised: 10/08/2012] [Accepted: 10/08/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The mechanism by which cigarette smoke (CS) causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is poorly understood. Interleukin-33 (IL-33) is a pleiotropic cytokine predominantly expressed in lung tissue and can elicit airway inflammation in naive mice. We tested the hypothesis that IL-33 is induced by CS and contributes to CS-mediated airway inflammation in a mouse model of CS-induced COPD. Groups of mice were exposed to CS three times per day for 4 consecutive days. The expression levels of IL-33 and ST2 were markedly enhanced in the lung tissue of mice inhaling CS. Exposure to CS also induced neutrophil and macrophage infiltration and expression of inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, tumour necrosis factor-α, IL-17), chemokines (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1) and mucin 5, subtypes A and C in the airways. More importantly, all of these CS-induced pathogenic changes were significantly inhibited by treatment with neutralizing anti-IL-33 antibody delivered intranasally. Hence, our results suggest that IL-33 plays a critical role in CS-mediated airway inflammation and may be a therapeutic target in CS-related diseases, including COPD.
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- Chuan Qiu
- Department of Immunology, Medical School of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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