Naturally occurring CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells prevent but do not improve experimental myasthenia gravis
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2010
Citazione:
Naturally occurring CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells prevent but do not improve experimental myasthenia gravis / V. Nessi, S. Nava, C. Ruocco, C. Toscani, R. Mantegazza, C. Antozzi, F. Baggi. - In: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. - ISSN 0022-1767. - 185:9(2010 Nov 01), pp. 5656-5667. [10.4049/jimmunol.0903183]
Abstract:
In the current study, we investigated whether naturally occurring CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells, separated by immunomagnetic anti-CD4 and anti-CD25 Abs from naive animals, are able to protect from experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG) and modify the progression of ongoing disease when administered to Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-immunized Lewis rats. Even though CD4(+)CD25(+) and CD4(+)CD25(high) T cell frequencies were similar in the spleens and lymph nodes of EAMG and healthy rats, we observed that CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells isolated from the spleens of naive animals inhibited in vitro the Ag-induced proliferation of T cell lines specific to the self-peptide 97-116 of the anti-AChR subunit (R97-116), an immunodominant and myasthenogenic T cell epitope, whereas CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells purified from the spleens of EAMG rats were less effective. CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells from EAMG rats expressed less forkhead box transcription factor P3 but more CTLA-4 mRNA than healthy rats. Naive CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells, obtained from naive rats and administered to T. californica AChR-immunized animals according to a preventive schedule of treatment, reduced the severity of EAMG, whereas their administration 4 wk postinduction of the disease, corresponding to the onset of clinical symptoms (therapeutic treatment), was not effective. We think that the exogenous administration of CD4(+)CD25(+) naive T cells prevents the early events underlying the induction of EAMG, events linked to the T cell compartment (Ag recognition, epitope spreading, and T cell expansion), but fails to ameliorate ongoing EAMG, when the IgG-mediated complement attack to the AChR at the neuromuscular junction has already taken place.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
V. Nessi, S. Nava, C. Ruocco, C. Toscani, R. Mantegazza, C. Antozzi, F. Baggi
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