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Ausiello CM, Palazzo R, Spensieri F, Urbani F, Massari M, Triebel F, Benagiano M, D'Elios MM, Prete GD, Cassone A. Soluble CD30 and Lymphocyte Activation Gene-3 (CD223), as Potential Serological Markers of T Helper-Type Cytokine Response Induced by Acellular Pertussis Vaccine. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/205873920601900109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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T cell responses are involved in vaccine-induced immunity to pertussis but no easy-to-monitor, serological markers are available to assess these responses. The lymphocyte activation gene-3 (CD223) molecule is present on, and released by, activated T helper (Th) 1 cells, whereas CD30 molecules have been associated with Th2 immune responses. Starting from the recent knowledge of the cytokine profile induced by pertussis vaccination, we examined the levels of soluble (s)CD223 and sCD30 proteins in child recipients of acellular pertussis (aP) and diphtheria-tetanus (DT) vaccines and in children receiving DT vaccine only, as control. The correlation of the two proteins with specific antibody and T cell responses was assessed. The main findings are: i) sCD223 and sCD30 levels are inversely related, suggesting that the two markers are the expression of different and counter-regulated T-cell responses; ii) sCD30 level correlated with induction of T cell proliferation to pertussis vaccine antigens and antibody response to pertussis toxin. Overall, sCD30 and sCD223 levels seem to be promising candidate markers to assess the induction of Th-type responses in vaccine recipients.
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- C. M. Ausiello
- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- E.A. 35.45, Faculte de Pharmacie, Chatenay-Malabry, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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D'Elios MM, Aldinucci A, Amoriello R, Benagiano M, Bonechi E, Maggi P, Flori A, Ravagli C, Saer D, Cappiello L, Conti L, Valtancoli B, Bencini A, Menichetti L, Baldi G, Ballerini C. Myelin-specific T cells carry and release magnetite PGLA–PEG COOH nanoparticles in the mouse central nervous system. RSC Adv 2018; 8:904-913. [PMID: 35538965 PMCID: PMC9076978 DOI: 10.1039/c7ra11290d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Progress in nanotechnology has determined new strategies concerning drug delivery into the central nervous system for the treatment of degenerative and inflammatory diseases. To date, brain targeting through systemic drug administration, even in a nano-composition, is often unsuccessful. Therefore, we investigated the possibility of loading T lymphocytes with PGLA–PEG COOH magnetite nanoparticles (30 nm), which can be built up to easily bind drugs and monoclonal antibodies, and to exploit the ability of activated T cells to cross the blood–brain barrier and infiltrate the brain parenchyma. Iron oxide nanoparticles have been widely used in biomedical applications due to their theranostic properties and are therefore a well-established nanomaterial. The magnetite core is easily hybridized with polymeric compounds that may enhance the possibility of the nanoparticles entering cells with low phagocytic properties. Taking advantage of these material characteristics, after in vitro assessment of the viability and functionality of nano-loaded MOG35–55 specific T cells, we transferred cells containing the nano-cargo into naïve mice affected by experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of multiple sclerosis. By means of histological and immunohistological methods, we were able to identify the nano-loaded T cells in the central nervous system. Our data demonstrated that T cells containing nanomaterials hold the possibility of carrying and releasing nanoparticles in the brain. Magnetite nanoparticles enter non-phagocytic myelin-specific T cells and reach the central nervous system after in vivo transfer.![]()
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- M. M. D'Elios
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug and Child Health
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug and Child Health
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug and Child Health
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Neurology
- Hôpital CHU Brugmann-Université libre de Bruxelles-Bruxelles-Be
- Belgium
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- Fondazione CNR Regione Toscana G. Monasterio
- Pisa
- Italy
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- Research Center Colorobbia
- Cericol, Colorobbia Consulting
- Florence
- Italy
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- Research Center Colorobbia
- Cericol, Colorobbia Consulting
- Florence
- Italy
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- Research Center Colorobbia
- Cericol, Colorobbia Consulting
- Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Ugo Schiff
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Ugo Schiff
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Ugo Schiff
- University of Florence
- Italy
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- Research Center Colorobbia
- Cericol, Colorobbia Consulting
- Florence
- Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug and Child Health
- University of Florence
- Italy
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Della Bella C, Benagiano M, De Gennaro M, Gomez-Morales MA, Ludovisi A, D'Elios S, Luchi S, Pozio E, D'Elios MM, Bruschi F. T-cell clones in human trichinellosis: Evidence for a mixed Th1/Th2 response. Parasite Immunol 2017; 39. [PMID: 28106258 DOI: 10.1111/pim.12412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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In humans, studies on the cellular immune response against Trichinella are scarce. Aim of this study was to characterize the cytokine profile of T cells specific for Trichinella britovi in trichinellosis patients. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were obtained from five patients involved in a trichinellosis outbreak caused by T. britovi, which occurred in 2013 in Tuscany (Italy). All the patients resulted positive for Trichinella-specific IgG, IgE and presented eosinophilia. T cells were investigated for their proliferation to excretory/secretory antigens from Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae (TsES) and for their cytokine profile. A total of 284 CD4+ and 42 CD8+ T-cell clones were obtained from the TsES-specific T-cell lines from PBMC. All T-cell clones proliferated in response to mitogen. Of the 284 CD4+ T-cell clones generated from TsES-specific T-cell lines, 135 (47%) proliferated significantly to TsES; 26% CD8+ T-cell clones showed proliferation to TsES. In the series of the 135 TsES-specific CD4+ clones, 51% expressed a Th2 profile, 30% a Th0 and 19% Th1. In the series of the 11 TsES-specific CD8+ T-cell clones, 18% were Tc2, 45% Tc0 and 36% Tc1. In human trichinellosis, the cellular immune response is, during the chronic phase, mixed Th1/Th2.
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- C Della Bella
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Ospedale di Lucca, Lucca, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Translational Research, N.T.M.S., Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.,National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Amedei A, Munari F, Della Bella C, Niccolai E, Benagiano M, Bencini L, Cianchi F, Silvestri E, D'Elios S, Farsi M, Prisco D, Zanotti G, De Bernard M, Kundu M, D'Elios M. Helicobacter Pylori HP0175 Promotes the Production of IL-23, IL-6, IL-1β and TGF-β. EUR J INFLAMM 2013. [DOI: 10.1177/1721727x1301100127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Helicobacter pylori infection induces a chronic gastric inflammatory infiltrate. This study was undertaken to evaluate the type of the innate immune responses elicited by the secreted peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase of H. pylori (HP0175). The cytokine production induced by HP0175 in neutrophils, and monocytes was evaluated. HP0175 was able to induce the expression of IL-23 in neutrophils, and monocytes, and IL-6, IL-1beta and TGF-beta in monocytes. These findings indicate that HP0175 is able to promote the activation of innate cells and the production of a cytokine milieu that may favour the development of Th17 response.
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- A. Amedei
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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- Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, university of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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- Department of General and Oncologic Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of General and Oncologic Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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- Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, university of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, university of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Medical Pathology, Florence, Italy
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D'Elios M, Benagiano M, Amedei A, Bella CD, Niccolai E, Prisco D. T cells, tissue factor and malignancy. Thromb Res 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/s0049-3848(12)70067-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Amedei A, Della Bella C, Niccolai E, Stanflin N, Benagiano M, Duranti R, Del Prete G, Murphy TF, D'Elios MM. Moraxella catarrhalis-specific Th1 cells in BAL fluids of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 2010; 22:979-90. [PMID: 20074461 DOI: 10.1177/039463200902200413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients airway mucosa is infiltrated by macrophages and T lymphocytes, potentially reactive to pathogens. We studied the antigen-specificity and the effector functions of in vivo activated T lymphocytes isolated from BAL (Bronchoalveolar lavage) of 5 Moraxella catarrhalis (Mc)-infected and 5 Mc-non-infected COPD patients. Mc-specific T cells were detected only in BAL or peripheral blood of Moraxella catarrhalis-infected patients. The majority of BAL Mc-specific T cells expressed the T helper type 1 (Th1) cytokine profile with high cytotoxic and pro-apoptotic activity. Upon antigen stimulation, all Mc-specific T clones were able to help the immunoglobulin production by autologous B cells and the MMP (Matrix MetalloProteinase)-12 activity by monocytes. Our results suggest a role for Th1-driven response to Moraxella catarrhalis in the genesis of COPD.
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- A Amedei
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
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Ausiello CM, Palazzo R, Spensieri F, Urbani F, Massari M, Triebel F, Benagiano M, D'Elios MM, Del Prete G, Cassone A. Soluble CD30 and lymphocyte activation gene-3 (CD223), as potential serological markers of T helper-type cytokine response induced by acellular pertussis vaccine. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 2006; 19:97-104. [PMID: 16569347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023] Open
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T cell responses are involved in vaccine-induced immunity to pertussis but no easy-to-monitor, serological markers are available to assess these responses. The lymphocyte activation gene-3 (CD223) molecule is present on, and released by, activated T helper (Th) 1 cells, whereas CD30 molecules have been associated with Th2 immune responses. Starting from the recent knowledge of the cytokine profile induced by pertussis vaccination, we examined the levels of soluble (s)CD223 and sCD30 proteins in child recipients of acellular pertussis (aP) and diphtheria-tetanus (DT) vaccines and in children receiving DT vaccine only, as control. The correlation of the two proteins with specific antibody and T cell responses was assessed. The main findings are: i) sCD223 and sCD30 levels are inversely related, suggesting that the two markers are the expression of different and counter-regulated T-cell responses; ii) sCD30 level correlated with induction of T cell proliferation to pertussis vaccine antigens and antibody response to pertussis toxin. Overall, sCD30 and sCD223 levels seem to be promising candidate markers to assess the induction of Th-type responses in vaccine recipients.
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- C M Ausiello
- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
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Bergman M, Amedei A, D'Elios M, Azzurri A, Benagiano M, Tamburini C, Van der Zee R, Vandenbroucke-Grauls C, Appelmelk B, Del Prete G. Correction Vol. 33(2) 2003, pp 539 545: Characterization of H+,K+-ATPase T cell epitopes in human autoimmune gastritis. Eur J Immunol 2003. [DOI: 10.1002/eji.200390031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Amedei A, Romagnani C, Benagiano M, Azzurri A, Fomia F, Torrente F, Plebani A, D'Elios MM, Del Prete G. Preferential Th1 profile of T helper cell responses in X-linked (Bruton's) agammaglobulinemia. Eur J Immunol 2001; 31:1927-34. [PMID: 11433390 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200106)31:6<1927::aid-immu1927>3.0.co;2-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is a primary immunodeficiency of the B-cell compartment caused by a defective gene encoding for the tyrosine kinase (btk) essential for B cell differentiation. Affected males undergo recurrent pyogenic infections and deficient immunoglobulin production. Peripheral blood T cells from 6 XLA patients and 6 matched healthy controls were stimulated with either PHA or tetanus toxoid (TT) and T cell clones obtained were compared for their cytokine profile. In the series of PHA-induced or TT-specific CD4(+) T cell clones derived from XLA patients, the Th1 profile was predominant (63 and 65 %, respectively). Upon stimulation with TT, the proportion of activated T cells from XLA that expressed the IFN-gamma -associated LAG-3 activation molecule was higher than in control T cells (51 vs. 25 %), whereas the expression of the IL-4-associated CD30 molecule was lower (5 vs. 21 %). In a cohort of 31 XLA patients, plasma levels of soluble (s)LAG-3 and sCD30, chosen as indirect indicators of the Th1 / Th2 activity in vivo, were significantly higher and lower, respectively, than those measured in 31 healthy controls. Likewise, plasma levels of interferon-inducible protein 10 and of macrophage-derived chemokine in XLA patients were significantly higher and lower, respectively, than in healthy controls.
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- A Amedei
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Marchant A, Amedei A, Azzurri A, Vekemans J, Benagiano M, Tamburini C, Lienhardt C, Corrah T, McAdam KP, Romagnani S, D'Elios MM, Del Prete G. Polarization of PPD-specific T-cell response of patients with tuberculosis from Th0 to Th1 profile after successful antimycobacterial therapy or in vitro conditioning with interferon-alpha or interleukin-12. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2001; 24:187-94. [PMID: 11159053 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.24.2.4274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The T helper (Th) 1/Th2 balance in the T-lymphocyte response to purified protein derivative (PPD) was evaluated at the clonal level in six Italian and five Gambian patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) before and after antimycobacterial therapy, as well as in five Gambian and four Italian healthy immune control subjects. In untreated patients, most PPD-specific clones derived from either peripheral blood or pleural effusions showed a Th0 cytokine profile (production of both interferon [IFN]-gamma and interleukin [IL]-4/IL-5). After 6 mo of therapy and clinical healing, most PPD-specific clones showed a polarized Th1 profile (production of IFN-gamma but not IL-4/IL-5) in both Italian and Gambian patients. The Th1 polarization was less marked in Gambian than in Italian patients and failed to occur in another group of four Italian patients who experienced treatment failure. The cytokine profile observed after successful therapy in patients with TB was similar to that found in healthy control subjects. T-cell clones of undefined specificity generated from PPD-stimulated cultures showed a similar Th0/Th2 bias in Gambian individuals and Italian patients with treatment failure. The Th0/Th2-biased responses in Gambian patients before therapy could be modulated in vitro by IFN-alpha or IL-12, which induced a Th1 polarization of both PPD-specific and bystander T cells. Our data show that active TB associates with a predominant Th0 response to mycobacterial antigens that could play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Adjunctive immunotherapy using Th1-polarizing cytokines could increase host defense against mycobacteria and accelerate healing.
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- A Marchant
- Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia
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D'Elios MM, Bergman MP, Azzurri A, Amedei A, Benagiano M, De Pont JJ, Cianchi F, Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM, Romagnani S, Appelmelk BJ, Del Prete G. H(+),K(+)-atpase (proton pump) is the target autoantigen of Th1-type cytotoxic T cells in autoimmune gastritis. Gastroenterology 2001; 120:377-86. [PMID: 11159878 DOI: 10.1053/gast.2001.21187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS The proton pump H(+),K(+)-adenosine triphosphatase (H(+),K(+)-ATPase) of parietal cells is the major humoral autoantigen in both human and experimental autoimmune gastritis (AIG) characterized by an inflammatory infiltrate in the gastric mucosa and loss of parietal cells. The aim of this study was to detect H(+),K(+)-ATPase-specific T cells in the gastric mucosa of patients with AIG and to define their functional properties. METHODS In vivo-activated T cells from the infiltrates of the gastric mucosa of 5 patients with AIG were isolated and cloned. The ability of gastric T-cell clones to proliferate and to produce cytokines in response to H(+),K(+)-ATPase, as well as their expression of B-cell help, perforin-mediated cytotoxicity, and Fas-Fas ligand-mediated apoptosis in target cells, were assessed. RESULTS A proportion (25%) of the CD4(+) clones from the gastric corpus of AIG patients proliferated in response to porcine H(+),K(+)-ATPase. Most of these clones (88%) showed a Th1 profile, whereas a few secreted both Th1 and Th2 cytokines. Virtually all of the H(+),K(+)-ATPase-specific clones produced tumor necrosis factor alpha and provided substantial help for B-cell immunoglobulin production, and most of them expressed perforin-mediated cytotoxicity against antigen-presenting cells and induced Fas-Fas ligand-mediated apoptosis in target cells. CONCLUSIONS Activation of proton pump-specific Th1 cytotoxic/proapoptotic T cells in the gastric mucosa can represent an effector mechanism for the target cell destruction in AIG.
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- M M D'Elios
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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D'Elios MM, Amedei A, Benagiano M, Azzurri A, Del Prete G. Usefulness of (13)C-urea breath test in the diagnosis of gastric helicobacter pylori infection. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 2000; 13:27-30. [PMID: 12749775 DOI: 10.1177/039463200001300104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Helicobacter pylori chronically infects half of the human population and is associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. (13)C-urea breath test (UBT) is the main in vivo tool for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection. In this study, the safety and the accuracy of UBT were evaluated. A group of 492 dyspeptic patients was studied by UBT, the results were expressed as the difference over baseline at 30 min (DOB30). All patients were evaluated for systemic, gastrointestinal or allergic-type adverse reactions after ingestion of 75 mg (13)C-urea and citric acid in aqueous solution. The first 256 patients enrolled also underwent endoscopy and gastric biopsy. Patients positive on histology were considered infected. UBT was well tolerated and none of the 492 patients had any systemic or allergic-type adverse reaction. Among the 256 patients studied with histology, 116 were H. pylori positive on biopsies. Using 4 %o as cut-off value for DOB30,115 out of the 256 patients were positive on UBT, with only 2 false positive and 3 false negative. With this threshold, the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the UBT were 97.4%, 98.5%, and 98.0%, respectively. (13)C-UBT has proven to be a safe and simple, yet accurate, test for the non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of H. pylori infection.
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- M M D'Elios
- Patologia Medica IV, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florence, Italy
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Pala A, Padula F, Barteri M, Benagiano M, Gaudiano MC, Moro M, Benagiano G. Rapid purification and properties of human glycodelin (endometrial alpha2-globulin). J Chromatogr B Biomed Sci Appl 1997; 704:25-34. [PMID: 9518157 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(97)00435-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The method presented can easily produce milligram amounts of glycodelin from pregnancy endometrium, with a 19% yield. It involves anion-exchange chromatography, gel permeation and chromatofocusing; it results in one stainable band at Mr 28,000 after sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide electrophoresis, as well as after immunoblot analysis, performed using an affinity-purified IgG fraction from an antiserum against glycodelin. In spite of this, the corresponding gel isoelectric focusing pattern gives four stainable bands with pI values between 4.55 and 5.2. Western immunoblot analysis of tissue extracts indicates the presence of glycodelin epitopes associated with materials heavier than the native protein. Circular dichroism spectra of the highly purified protein in water solutions indicate a large amount of beta-sheet conformation, whereas those obtained with different proportions of 2-propanol in water, show an increased proportion of alpha-helix conformation.
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- A Pala
- Laboratory of Biochemistry of Sex Hormones of the First and Second Institute of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Department of Chemistry, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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