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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a critical role in suppressing the development of autoimmune disease, in controlling potentially harmful inflammatory responses, and in maintaining immune homeostasis. Because severe injury triggers both excessive inflammation and suppressed adaptive immunity, we wished to test whether injury could influence Treg activity. Using a mouse burn injury model, we demonstrate that injury significantly enhances Treg function. This increase in Treg activity is apparent at 7 days after injury and is restricted to lymph node CD4+CD25+ T cells draining the injury site. Moreover, we show that this injury-induced increase in Treg activity is cell-contact dependent and is mediated in part by increased cell surface TGF-beta1 expression. To test the in vivo significance of these findings, mice were depleted of CD4+CD25+ T cells before sham or burn injury and then were immunized to follow the development of T cell-dependent Ag-specific immune reactivity. We observed that injured mice, which normally demonstrate suppressed Th1-type immunity, showed normal Th1 responses when depleted of CD4+CD25+ T cells. Taken together, these observations suggest that injury can induce or amplify CD4+CD25+ Treg function and that CD4+CD25+ T cells contribute to the development of postinjury immune suppression.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
176
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
225-36
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Antigens, CD4, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Burns, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Cell Communication, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Cytokines, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Immunophenotyping, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Lymph Nodes, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Lymphocyte Depletion, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Receptors, Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Transforming Growth Factor beta, pubmed-meshheading:16365414-Transforming Growth Factor beta1
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Enhanced regulatory T cell activity is an element of the host response to injury.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery (Immunology), Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural