Adrenal Hormone Modulation of Type 1 and Type 2 Cytokine Production by Spleen Cells: Dexamethasone and Dehydroepiandrosterone Suppress Interleukin-2, Interleukin-4, and Interferon-γ Productionin Vitro

1998 ◽  
Vol 184 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan A. Moynihan ◽  
Tracy A. Callahan ◽  
Sheila P. Kelley ◽  
Lorrie M. Campbell
1999 ◽  
Vol 190 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaëtane Woerly ◽  
Nadine Roger ◽  
Sylvie Loiseau ◽  
David Dombrowicz ◽  
André Capron ◽  
...  

Eosinophils are the source of various immunoregulatory cytokines, but the membrane molecules involved in their secretion have not been clearly identified. Here we show that peripheral blood eosinophils from hypereosinophilic patients could express membrane CD86 but not CD80. The T cell costimulatory molecule CD28 is also detected on the eosinophil surface. CD28 ligation but not CD86 ligation resulted in interleukin (IL)-2 and interferon (IFN)-γ secretion by eosinophils, whereas IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10 were not detected. In contrast to T cells requiring two signals for effective stimulation, CD28 ligation alone was sufficient for optimal eosinophil activation. Eosinophil-derived IL-2 and IFN-γ were biologically active, as supernatants from anti-CD28–treated cells were able to induce CTLL-2 proliferation and major histocompatibility complex class II expression on the colon carcinoma cell line Colo 205, respectively. Addition of secretory immunoglobulin (Ig)A–anti-IgA complexes, which could induce the release of IL-10, very significantly inhibited both CD28-mediated IL-2 and IFN-γ release. These results suggest that the release of type 1 (IFN-γ and IL-2) versus type 2 cytokines by eosinophils is not only differential but also dependent on cross-regulatory signals. They confirm that through activation of costimulatory molecules, eosinophils could function as an immunoregulatory cell involved in the release of both type 1 and type 2 cytokines.


1993 ◽  
Vol 178 (5) ◽  
pp. 1645-1653 ◽  
Author(s):  
J G McArthur ◽  
D H Raulet

Type 1 and type 2 cloned T helper (Th) cells are believed to require different antigen-presenting cell (APC)-derived costimuli for proliferation. In the case of Th1-cloned T cells, CD28 signaling costimulates production of autocrine interleukin 2 (IL-2). Th2 cells produce their autocrine growth factor, IL-4, without costimulation, but require APC-derived costimuli, or IL-1, to respond to IL-4. Here we demonstrate that engagement of CD28 on Th2 cells with anti-CD28 antibody or with APC-associated B7 costimulates Th2 responsiveness to IL-4 but does not affect IL-4 or IL-2 production by Th2 cells. Costimulation of Th2 cells via CD28 appears to involve the induction of IL-1 production by Th2 cells, which acts in an autocrine fashion to induce IL-4 responsiveness. These results suggest that CD28-induced costimulation plays an important role in responses mediated by both types of Th cells.


2003 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 5412-5417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmelo Biondo ◽  
Concetta Beninati ◽  
Mauro Bombaci ◽  
Luciano Messina ◽  
Giuseppe Mancuso ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT A 25-kDa cryptococcal deacetylase (d25) was found here to induce cell proliferation, as well as secretion of interleukin 2 and gamma interferon, but not interleukin 4, in spleen cells from d25-immunized or Cryptococcus neoformans-infected mice. The gamma interferon, but not the interleukin 2, response was required for the protective activities of d25 immunization in a murine cryptococcosis model.


Blood ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 574-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Clerici ◽  
C Balotta ◽  
A Salvaggio ◽  
C Riva ◽  
D Trabattoni ◽  
...  

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) isolability, rate of viral replication, HIV phenotype, type 1 and type 2 cytokine production, and CD4 counts were cross sectionally analyzed in 63 HIV seropositive (HIV+) individuals to establish possible correlations between virologic and immunologic markers of protection and progression. We observed that these markers are tightly correlated. Thus, lack or low prevalence of HIV isolability and the presence of nonsyncitium inducing strains are associated with the strongest type 1 cytokine production, the weakest type 2 cytokine production, and highest CD4 counts. Conversely, the isolation of highly replicating, syncitium-inducing HIV strains is associated with the weakest type 1 cytokine production, the strongest type 2 cytokine production, and lowest CD4 counts. Additionally, it was determined that the interleukin (IL)-10/IL-2 ratio best discriminates among different virologic scenarios. These data suggest that the virologic and immunologic correlates of disease protection and progression might be associated variables that define two different subsets of HIV+ individuals and lend support to a viro-immunologic hypothesis of HIV infection.


2001 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 1708-1712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Steensberg ◽  
Anders Dyhr Toft ◽  
Helle Bruunsgaard ◽  
Marie Sandmand ◽  
Jens Halkjær-Kristensen ◽  
...  

Prolonged strenuous exercise is followed by a temporary functional immune impairment. Low numbers of CD4+T helper (Th) and CD8+ T cytotoxic (Tc) cells are found in the circulation. These cells can be divided according to their cytokine profile into type 1 (Th1 and Tc1), which produce interferon-γ and interleukin (IL)-2, and type 2 (Th2 and Tc2) cells, which produce IL-4. The question addressed in the present study was whether exercise affected the relative balance between the circulating levels of these cytokine-producing T cells. Nine male runners performed treadmill running for 2.5 h at 75% of maximal oxygen consumption. The intracellular expression of cytokines was detected following stimulation with ionomycin and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate in blood obtained before, during, and after exercise. The percentage of type 1 T cells in the circulation was suppressed at the end of exercise and 2 h after exercise, whereas no changes were found in the percentage of type 2 T cells. Plasma epinephrine correlated negatively with the percentage of circulating CD8+ T cells producing IL-2, whereas peak IL-6 correlated with the percentage of CD8+ IL-4-producing T cells in the circulation. Peak plasma IL-6 correlated with plasma cortisol postrunning. In conclusion, the postexercise decrease in T lymphocyte number is accompanied by a more pronounced decrease in type 1 T cells, which may be linked to high plasma epinephrine. Furthermore, IL-6 may stimulate type 2 T cells, thereby maintaining a relatively unaltered percentage of these cells in the circulation compared with total circulating lymphocyte number.


1995 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 1038-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Lichtor ◽  
Roberta P. Glick ◽  
Tae Sung Kim ◽  
Roger Hand ◽  
Edward P. Cohen

✓ A novel approach toward the treatment of glioma was developed in a murine model. The genes for both interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) were first transfected into a mouse fibroblast cell line that expresses defined major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinants (H—2k). The double cytokine—secreting cells were then cotransplanted intracerebrally with the Gl261 murine glioma cell line into syngeneic C57BL/6 mice (H—2b) whose cells differed at the MHC from the cellular immunogen. The results indicate that the survival of mice with glioma injected with the cytokine-secreting allogeneic cells was significantly prolonged, relative to the survival of mice receiving equivalent numbers of glioma cells alone. Using a standard 51Cr-release assay, the specific release of isotope from labeled Gl261 cells coincubated with spleen cells from mice injected intracerebrally with the glioma cells and the cytokine-secreting fibroblasts was significantly higher than the release of isotope from glioma cells coincubated with spleen cells from nonimmunized mice. The cellular antiglioma response was mediated by natural killer/lymphokine-activated killer and Lyt-2.2+ (CD8+) cells. The increased survival of mice with glioma and the specific immunocytotoxic responses after immunization with fibroblasts modified to secrete both IL-2 and IFN-γ indicate the potential of an immunotherapeutic approach to gliomas with cytokine-secreting cells.


Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1479
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Zhang ◽  
Ruihua Zhang ◽  
Jingyu Wang ◽  
Nana Sui ◽  
Guige Xu ◽  
...  

With the continuous development of duck farming and the increasing breeding density, the incidence of duck hepatitis A virus type 1 (DHAV-1) has been on the rise, seriously endangering the development of duck farming. To reduce the use of antibiotics in duck breeding, susceptibility risks and mortality, and avoid virulence recovery and immune failure risk, this study aims to develop a new type of mucosal immune probiotics and make full use of molecular biology techniques, on the level of genetic engineering, to modify Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis). In this study, a secretory recombinant L. lactis named MG1363-VP1 with an enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (eGFP) and translation enhancer T7g10L was constructed, which could express the VP1-eGFP fusion protein of DHAV-1. The animal experiment in ducklings was performed to detect the immune response and protection effect of oral microecologics by recombinant L. lactis. The results showed that oral L. lactis MG1363-VP1 significantly induced the body’s humoral immune system and mucosal immune system to produce specific anti-VP1 IgG antibodies and mucosal secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) for DHAV-1 in ducklings, and cytokines including interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-4 (IL-4), interleukin-10 (IL-10), and interferon gamma (IFN-γ). The mortality rate was monitored simultaneously by the natural infestation in the process of production and breeding; notably, the ducklings vaccinated with L. lactis MG1363-VP1 were effectively protected against the nature infection of DHAV-1. The recombinant L. lactis MG1363-VP1 constructed in this study provides a new means of preventing and controlling DHAV-1 infection in the future.


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