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9200489

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-7-14
pubmed:abstractText
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the major cause of acquired heart disease in children. KD is suspected of being an infectious disease, but the etiology has not yet been clarified. Immunologically, the disease is associated with the activation of T cells, monocytes, and macrophages resulting in highly elevated levels of several cytokines. Recently, expansions of T cells expressing TCRBV2 and TCRBV8 chains have been reported, and this suggests the involvement of a superantigen in the pathogenesis of KD. To address the role of a superantigen in KD, we investigated clonal expansion of T cells by estimating the complementarity-determining region 3 size profile among T cells expressing TCRBV1, TCRBV2, TCRBV4, TCRBV5, TCRBV8, TCRBV14, TCRBV16, TCRBV17, TCRBV18, and TCRBV20 chains during acute KD, during subacute KD, and during the long term follow-up period. During the acute phase of KD, several clonal expansions were found mainly in the CD8+ T cells that disappeared during the long term follow-up period. Our data suggest that the conventional Ags rather than a superantigen were involved in the pathogenesis of acute KD.
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
159
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
481-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Clonal expansion of CD8+ T cells in Kawasaki disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seodaemoon-ku, Seoul, Korea. inhong@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't