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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-20
pubmed:abstractText
Overwhelming infection remains the leading cause of death from serious burn injury despite recent advances in the care of burn patients and a better understanding of immune and inflammatory consequences of injury. In this study, we report a critical requirement for CD1d-restricted NKT cells and CD1d expression by APCs in the immune dysfunction that occurs early after burn injury. Using a well-established murine scald injury model with BALB/c and BALB/c CD1d knockout mice, we investigated whether peripheral T cell immunity was affected by the presence or absence of CD1d-restricted NKT cells in the early stages after injury. Using Ag-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity, T cell proliferation, and cytokine production as indices of immune responsiveness, we observed that both CD1d expression by APCs and CD1d-restricted NKT cells are required for immune suppression after injury. Via adoptive transfer of splenocytes from injured mice to uninjured recipients, we found injury-induced suppression of immunity to be Ag specific, long lasting, and critically dependent on cell surface expression of CD1d by APCs. Together, our results suggest that the defects in T cell responsiveness that occur subsequent to severe burn injury are not merely the result of global or passive suppression, but instead represent an active form of CD1d/NKT cell-dependent immunologic tolerance.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
177
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
92-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Adoptive Transfer, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Antigen-Presenting Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Antigens, CD1, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Antigens, CD1d, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Burns, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Immune Tolerance, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Immunity, Cellular, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Interleukin-4, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Killer Cells, Natural, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-Spleen, pubmed-meshheading:16785503-T-Lymphocyte Subsets
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Injury-induced suppression of effector T cell immunity requires CD1d-positive APCs and CD1d-restricted NKT cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, and Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural