TY - JOUR
T1 - Innate immunity in multiple sclerosis
T2 - Myeloid dendritic cells in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis are activated and drive a proinflammatory immune response
AU - Karni, Arnon
AU - Abraham, Michal
AU - Monsonego, Alon
AU - Cai, Guifang
AU - Freeman, Gordon J.
AU - Hafler, David
AU - Khoury, Samia J.
AU - Weiner, Howard L.
PY - 2006/9/15
Y1 - 2006/9/15
N2 - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is postulated to be a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease characterized clinically by a relapsing-remitting (RR) stage followed by a secondary progressive (SP) phase. The progressive phase is felt to be secondary to neuronal degenerative changes triggered by inflammation. The status of the innate immune system and its relationship to the stages of MS is not well understood. Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional APCs that are central celis of the innate immune system and have the unique capacity to induce primary immune responses. We investigated circulating myeloid DCs isolated directly from the blood to determine whether there were abnormalities in myeloid DCs in MS and whether they were related to disease stage. We found that SP-MS subjects had an increased percentage of DCs expressing CD80, a decreased percentage expressing PD-L1, and an increased percentage producing IL-12 and TNF-α compared with RR-MS or controls. A higher percentage of DCs from both RR and SP-MS patients expressed CD40 compared with controls. We then investigated the polarization effect of DCs from MS patients on naive T cells taken from cord blood using a MLR assay. Whereas DCs from RR-MS induced higher levels of Th1 (IFN-γ, TNF-α) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-13) cytokines compared with controls, DCs from SP-MS only induced a polarized ThI response. These results demonstrate abnormalities of DCs in MS and may explain the immunologic basis for the different stages and clinical patterns of MS.
AB - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is postulated to be a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease characterized clinically by a relapsing-remitting (RR) stage followed by a secondary progressive (SP) phase. The progressive phase is felt to be secondary to neuronal degenerative changes triggered by inflammation. The status of the innate immune system and its relationship to the stages of MS is not well understood. Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional APCs that are central celis of the innate immune system and have the unique capacity to induce primary immune responses. We investigated circulating myeloid DCs isolated directly from the blood to determine whether there were abnormalities in myeloid DCs in MS and whether they were related to disease stage. We found that SP-MS subjects had an increased percentage of DCs expressing CD80, a decreased percentage expressing PD-L1, and an increased percentage producing IL-12 and TNF-α compared with RR-MS or controls. A higher percentage of DCs from both RR and SP-MS patients expressed CD40 compared with controls. We then investigated the polarization effect of DCs from MS patients on naive T cells taken from cord blood using a MLR assay. Whereas DCs from RR-MS induced higher levels of Th1 (IFN-γ, TNF-α) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-13) cytokines compared with controls, DCs from SP-MS only induced a polarized ThI response. These results demonstrate abnormalities of DCs in MS and may explain the immunologic basis for the different stages and clinical patterns of MS.
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U2 - 10.4049/jimmunol.177.6.4196
DO - 10.4049/jimmunol.177.6.4196
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C2 - 16951385
AN - SCOPUS:33748510173
VL - 177
SP - 4196
EP - 4202
JO - Journal of Immunology
JF - Journal of Immunology
SN - 0022-1767
IS - 6
ER -