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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-22
pubmed:abstractText
CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells (T(reg)) can inhibit a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, but their involvement in regulating virus-induced immunopathology is not known. We have evaluated the role of T(reg) in viral immunopathological lesion stromal keratitis. This frequent cause of human blindness results from a T cell-mediated immunoinflammatory response to HSV in the corneal stroma. The results show that lesions were significantly more severe if mice were depleted of T(reg) before infection. The T(reg) was also shown to modulate lesion expression induced by adoptive transfer of pathogenic CD4(+) T cells in infected SCID recipients. The mechanism of T(reg) control of stromal keratitis involved suppressed antiviral immunity and impaired expression of the molecule required for T cell migration to lesion sites. Interestingly, T(reg) isolated from ocular lesions in nondepleted mice showed in vitro inhibitory effects involving IL-10, but were not very effective in established lesions. Our results decipher the in vivo role of T(reg) in a virus-induced immunopathology and imply that manipulation of regulatory cell function represents a useful approach to control viral-induced immunoinflammatory disease.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
172
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4123-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Adoptive Transfer, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Herpesvirus 1, Human, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Immunophenotyping, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Immunosuppression, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Keratitis, Herpetic, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Lymphocyte Depletion, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Lymphopenia, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Receptors, Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-Severity of Illness Index, pubmed-meshheading:15034024-T-Lymphocyte Subsets
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells control the severity of viral immunoinflammatory lesions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.