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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-7
pubmed:abstractText
Severe injury induces detrimental changes in immune function, often leaving the host highly susceptible to developing life-threatening opportunistic infections. Advances in our understanding of how injury influences host immune responses suggest that injury causes a phenotypic imbalance in the regulation of Th1- and Th2-type immune responses. We report in this study, using a TCR transgenic CD4(+) T cell adoptive transfer approach, that injury skews T cell responses toward increased Th2-type reactivity in vivo without substantially limiting Ag-driven CD4(+) T cell expansion. The increased Th2-type response did not occur unless injured mice were immunized with specific Ag, suggesting that the phenotypic switch is Ag dependent. These findings establish that severe injury induces fundamental changes in the induction of Ag-specific CD4(+) Th cell responses favoring the development of Th2-type immune reactivity in vivo.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
171
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3983-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Adoptive Transfer, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Burns, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Cytokines, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Immunity, Innate, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Ovalbumin, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Th2 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:14530317-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Burn injury promotes antigen-driven Th2-type responses in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't