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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-21
pubmed:abstractText
We studied the phenotype and activity of cord blood natural killer (NK) cells in newborns congenitally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. We found that the proportion of CD56(bright) NK cells was significantly decreased in cord blood from these newborns, suggesting they may have been recruited to secondary lymphoid organs. The remaining CD56(bright) NK cells exhibited a defective ability in the production of interferon (IFN)-gamma following in vitro activation with interleukin (IL)-12 + IL-2 or IL-12 + IL-15 cytokines, as compared with NK cells from uninfected newborns. In addition, cord blood NK cells from congenitally infected newborns stimulated with cytokines have a decreased release of granzyme B (GrB) when incubated with K562 target cells. This defect in cytotoxic effector function is associated with a reduced surface expression of activating NK receptors (NKp30, NKp46, and NKG2D) on CD56(dim) NK cells compared with uninfected newborns. These alterations of fetal NK cells from congenitally infected newborns may reflect a down-regulation of the NK cell response after an initial peak of activation and could also be the result of T. cruzi modulating the immune response.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
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pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0031-3998
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
60
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
38-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Antigens, CD56, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Chagas Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Fetal Blood, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Granzymes, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Interleukin-12, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Interleukin-15, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Killer Cells, Natural, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily K, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Natural Cytotoxicity Triggering Receptor 1, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Natural Cytotoxicity Triggering Receptor 3, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Receptors, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Receptors, Natural Killer Cell, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:16690951-Trypanosoma cruzi
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Human congenital infection with Trypanosoma cruzi induces phenotypic and functional modifications of cord blood NK cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't