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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-20
pubmed:abstractText
It has been known for decades that neonates are susceptible to transplant tolerance, but the immunological mechanisms involved remain to be fully elucidated. Recent evidence indicates that the maturation state of DCs responding to an allograft may have a profound impact on whether immunity or tolerance ensues. Given that TLR activation is a key process leading to DC maturation, we hypothesized that DCs from neonates have defective TLR immune responses. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found that murine neonatal DCs demonstrated enhanced TLR responses in comparison to adult counterparts in vitro. However, we found that neonatal B cells possess unique immunoregulatory functions as they impaired DC responses to TLR activation in an IL-10-dependent fashion. Functionally, we demonstrated that TLR-activated neonatal, but not adult, B cells impaired Th1, but not Th2, T cell alloimmune responses in vitro and in vivo, in models of alloimmune priming and allotransplantation. We conclude that neonatal B cells possess unique immunoregulatory properties that inhibit DC function and modulate alloimmunity in our murine experimental systems.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
179
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1700-10
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-B-Lymphocyte Subsets, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Dendritic Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Immunity, Innate, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Interleukin-12 Subunit p40, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Lipopolysaccharides, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Mice, Inbred A, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Skin Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Spleen, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Toll-Like Receptors, pubmed-meshheading:17641036-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Neonatal B cells suppress innate toll-like receptor immune responses and modulate alloimmunity.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural