scholarly journals Dendritic Cells in Sepsis: Pathological Alterations and Therapeutic Implications

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Dong Wu ◽  
Tao Li ◽  
Xin-Ying Ji
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Wnt Signaling Pathway ◽  
Reactive Oxygen Species Generation ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
Toll Like Receptor ◽  
Innate And Adaptive Immunity ◽  
Therapeutic Implications ◽  
Surface Molecules ◽  
Antigen Presenting

Sepsis is the leading cause of death for critically ill patients in recent years. Dendritic cells (DCs) are important antigen-presenting cells and play a key role in immune response by regulating the innate and adaptive immunity. The number of DCs, the differentiation of monocytes into DCs, and the levels of surface molecules associated with the function of DCs are changed in the development of sepsis. There are many mechanisms involved in the alterations of DCs during sepsis, including the induction of apoptosis, reactive oxygen species generation, activation of the Wnt signaling pathway, epigenetic regulation, and variation in Toll-like receptor-dependent signaling. In this review, we present the classifications of DC subsets and mechanisms involved in the alterations of DCs in sepsis, as well as further discuss the therapeutic strategies targeting DCs in sepsis to improve the aberrant immune response and prolong the life during sepsis progression.

scholarly journals Between biology and medicine: perspectives on the use of dendritic cells in anticancer therapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (0) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Szczygieł ◽  
Elżbieta Pajtasz-Piasecka
Keyword(s):  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Anticancer Therapy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Proper Function ◽  
Innate And Adaptive Immunity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Antigen Presenting

Dendritic cells (DCs), as a link between innate and adaptive immunity, play a pivotal role in maintaining homeostasis of the immune system. The DC population is characterized by heterogeneity; it consists of many subpopulations which, despite their phenotypic and localization differences, play an essential function – they are professional antigen presenting cells. Due to their role, DCs can be utilized in a new cancer treatment strategy. Their main purpose is to generate an anticancer response leading to the elimination of cancer cells. The tumor microenvironment, abundant in immunosuppressive factors (e.g. IL-10, TGF-β, Arg1, IDO), impairs the proper function of DCs. For this reason, various strategies are necessary for ex vivo preparation of DC-based vaccines and for the support of in vivo DCs to fight against tumors. DC-based vaccines are combined with other forms of immunotherapy (e.g. blockade of immune checkpoint molecules, e.g. PD-1 or CTLA-4) or conventional types of therapies (e.g. chemotherapy). Despite the enormous progress that has been made in anticancer therapy in the past two decades, there are still many unresolved issues regarding the effectiveness of the DCs usage. In this paper we described, in both a mouse and a human subject, a series of DC subpopulations, differentiating in normal conditions or under the influence of cancer microenvironment. We listed factors affecting the quality of the in vivo and ex vivo generations of antitumoral responses, significant from a therapeutic point of view. Moreover, the most important strategies for the use of DCs in anticancer therapies, as well as further developments on this field, have been discussed.

scholarly journals Sensitivity of Dendritic Cells to Microenvironment Signals

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Maria Motta ◽  
Vivian Mary Rumjanek
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Tumor Growth ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Immune Tolerance ◽  
Antigen Presenting Cells ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Antigen Presenting ◽  
The Way

Dendritic cells are antigen-presenting cells capable of either activating the immune response or inducing and maintaining immune tolerance. They do this by integrating stimuli from the environment and changing their functional status as a result of plasticity. The modifications suffered by these cells have consequences in the way the organism may respond. In the present work two opposing situations known to affect dendritic cells are analyzed: tumor growth, leading to a microenvironment that favors the induction of a tolerogenic profile, and organ transplantation, which leads to a proinflammatory profile. Lessons learned from these situations may help to understand the mechanisms of modulation resulting not only from the above circumstances, but also from other pathologies.

scholarly journals Pros and Cons of Antigen-Presenting Cell Targeted Tumor Vaccines

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleo Goyvaerts ◽  
Karine Breckpot
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Tumor Vaccines ◽  
Antigen Presenting Cell ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Antigen Presenting

In therapeutic antitumor vaccination, dendritic cells play the leading role since they decide if, how, when, and where a potent antitumor immune response will take place. Since the disentanglement of the complexity and merit of different antigen-presenting cell subtypes, antitumor immunotherapeutic research started to investigate the potential benefit of targeting these subtypesin situ. This review will discuss which antigen-presenting cell subtypes are at play and how they have been targeted and finally question the true meaning of targeting antitumor-based vaccines.

Development of thymic and splenic dendritic cell populations from different hemopoietic precursors

Blood ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (12) ◽  
pp. 3376-3382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wu ◽  
Angela D'Amico ◽  
Hubertus Hochrein ◽  
Meredith O'Keeffe ◽  
Ken Shortman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Dendritic Cell ◽  
Cell Populations ◽  
Lymphoid Tissues ◽  
Hemopoietic Precursors ◽  
Surface Molecules ◽  
Splenic Dendritic Cell ◽  
Antigen Presenting ◽  
Macrophage Precursors

Abstract The antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DCs) found in mouse lymphoid tissues are heterogeneous. Several types of DCs have been identified on the basis of the expression of different surface molecules, including CD4, CD8α, and DEC-205. Previous studies by the authors showed that the mouse intrathymic lymphoid-restricted precursors (lin−c-kit+Thy-1lowCD4low) can produce DCs in the thymus and spleen upon intravenous transfer, suggesting a lymphoid origin of these DCs. In the current study, the potential for DC production by the newly identified bone marrow (BM) common lymphoid precursors (CLPs), common myeloid precursors (CMPs), and committed granulocyte and macrophage precursors was examined. It was found that both the lymphoid and the myeloid precursors had the potential to produce DCs. All the different DC populations identified in mouse thymus and spleen could be produced by all these precursor populations. However, CLPs produced predominantly the CD4−CD8α+ DCs, whereas CMPs produced similar numbers of CD4−CD8α+ and CD4+CD8α− DCs, although at different peak times. On a per cell basis, the CLPs were more potent than the CMPs at DC production, but this may have been compensated for by an excess of CMPs over CLPs in BM. Overall, this study shows that the expression of CD8α does not delineate the hemopoietic precursor origin of DCs, and the nature of the early precursors may bias but does not dictate the phenotype of the DC product.

Chemokines and dendritic cells in inflammatory myopathies: Figure 1

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Tournadre ◽  
P Miossec
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Inflammatory Cells ◽  
Inflammatory Myopathies ◽  
T Helper ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Antigen Presenting ◽  
Leucocyte Recruitment

This review focuses on the contribution of the local production of chemokines and cytokines and of dendritic cells (DC) to the pathogenesis of inflammatory myopathies. DC are the most efficient professional antigen-presenting cells (APC), which are critical for the development of innate and adaptive immune responses. Chemokines are important mediators of the immune response as they regulate leucocyte recruitment to tissue and play a key role in inflammatory diseases by acting on T-cell and DC migration. Recent advances indicate that the muscle cell itself could participate in the inflammatory process. Furthermore, the T-helper (Th) type 1 and Th17 proinflammatory cytokines, present in myositis samples, are associated with the migration, differentiation and maturation of inflammatory cells and allow a network of interactions between all the components of the immune response. An understanding of such interactions is essential because it can lead to therapeutic applications.

scholarly journals Flt3L controls the development of radiosensitive dendritic cells in the meninges and choroid plexus of the steady-state mouse brain

2011 ◽  
Vol 208 (8) ◽  
pp. 1695-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niroshana Anandasabapathy ◽  
Gabriel D. Victora ◽  
Matthew Meredith ◽  
Rachel Feder ◽  
Baojun Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Choroid Plexus ◽  
Healthy Mouse ◽  
Dependent Development ◽  
Mhc Ii ◽  
Surface Molecules ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Antigen Presenting ◽  
Disease Free

Antigen-presenting cells in the disease-free brain have been identified primarily by expression of antigens such as CD11b, CD11c, and MHC II, which can be shared by dendritic cells (DCs), microglia, and monocytes. In this study, starting with the criterion of Flt3 (FMS-like receptor tyrosine kinase 3)-dependent development, we characterize the features of authentic DCs within the meninges and choroid plexus in healthy mouse brains. Analyses of morphology, gene expression, and antigen-presenting function established a close relationship between meningeal and choroid plexus DCs (m/chDCs) and spleen DCs. DCs in both sites shared an intrinsic requirement for Flt3 ligand. Microarrays revealed differences in expression of transcripts encoding surface molecules, transcription factors, pattern recognition receptors, and other genes in m/chDCs compared with monocytes and microglia. Migrating pre-DC progenitors from bone marrow gave rise to m/chDCs that had a 5–7-d half-life. In contrast to microglia, DCs actively present self-antigens and stimulate T cells. Therefore, the meninges and choroid plexus of a steady-state brain contain DCs that derive from local precursors and exhibit a differentiation and antigen-presenting program similar to spleen DCs and distinct from microglia.

scholarly journals Development of a Secondary Immune Response toMycobacterium tuberculosisIs Independent of Toll-Like Receptor 2

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1118-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda McBride ◽  
Kamlesh Bhatt ◽  
Padmini Salgame
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
T Cells ◽  
Host Resistance ◽  
Toll Like Receptor ◽  
Response Phenotype ◽  
Toll Like Receptor 2 ◽  
Antigen Presenting ◽  
Memory Immune Response

ABSTRACTPublished work indicates that the contribution of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) to host resistance during acuteMycobacterium tuberculosisinfection is marginal. However, in these studies, TLR2 participation in the memory immune response toM. tuberculosiswas not determined. The substantialin vitroevidence thatM. tuberculosisstrongly triggers TLR2 on dendritic cells and macrophages to bring about either activation or inhibition of antigen-presenting cell (APC) functions, along with accumulating evidence that memory T cell development can be calibrated by TLR signals, led us to question the role of TLR2 in host resistance to secondary challenge withM. tuberculosis. To address this question, a memory immunity model was employed, and the response of TLR2-deficient (TLR2 knockout [TLR2KO]) mice following a secondary exposure toM. tuberculosiswas compared to that of wild-type (WT) mice based on assessment of the bacterial burden, recall response, phenotype of recruited T cells, and granulomatous response. We found that upon rechallenge withM. tuberculosis, both WT and TLR2KO immune mice displayed similarly enhanced resistance to infection in comparison to their naïve counterparts. The frequencies ofM. tuberculosis-specific gamma interferon (IFN-γ)-producing T cells, the phenotypes of recruited T cells, and the granulomatous responses were also similar between WT and TLR2KO immune mice. Together, the findings from this study indicate that TLR2 signaling does not influence memory immunity toM. tuberculosis.

scholarly journals Mycobacterium abscessus MAB2560 induces maturation of dendritic cells via Toll-like receptor 4 and drives Th1 immune response

BMB Reports ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 512-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Jung Lee ◽  
Sung Jae Shin ◽  
Seung Jun Lee ◽  
Moon Hee Lee ◽  
Tae Heung Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Mycobacterium Abscessus ◽  
Toll Like Receptor ◽  
Toll Like Receptor 4 ◽  
Th1 Immune Response

scholarly journals Dendritic Cells in Cord Blood Transplantation: A Review

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Isabel Pereira ◽  
Artur Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Cord Blood ◽  
Tumor Antigens ◽  
Residual Disease ◽  
Cord Blood Transplantation ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Innate And Adaptive Immunity ◽  
Blood Transplantation ◽  
Self Tolerance ◽  
Antigen Presenting

Dendritic cells (DCs) are a heterogeneous population of antigen-presenting cells derived from hematopoietic progenitors that bridge the transition between the innate and adaptive immune responses, while maintaining self-tolerance and Th1/Th2 homeostasis, by priming other cells in either an immunogenic or tolerogenic direction. Through their role in both innate and adaptive immunity, DCs play a major part in transplant engraftment and rejection and in graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). Preferentially tolerogenic or immunogenic DC subtypes offer targets for immunotherapy, to optimize transplant success rates and prolong disease-free and overall survival. Cord blood DCs are immature and preferentially tolerogenic, due to maternal-fetal tolerance, leading to better graft acceptance and immune reconstitution and explaining the lower incidence and severity of GvHD in CB transplantation, despite donor-host mismatching. Manipulation of DC maturation and cell loading with tumor-antigens can direct antitumor immunity and target minimal residual disease, as demonstrated for acute myeloid leukemia, optimizing the graft-versus-leukemia effect.

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