Peripheral blood Th17/Treg imbalance in patients with low-active systemic lupus erythematosus
Journal Title: Advances in Hygiene and Experimental Medicine - Year 2014, Vol 68, Issue
Abstract
Introduction: The balance between proinflammatory Th17 cells and regulatory T cells plays an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In particular, an increased ratio of Th17/Treg cells has been shown to correlate with active SLE and specific organ involvement. The aim of our study was to assess Th17 and Treg cell populations in peripheral blood (PB) of patients with clinically quiescent SLE, and to evaluate their correlation with organ involvement.Material/Methods: We performed flow cytometric analysis of studied T CD4+ cell subpopulations in PB from 21 patients with SLE and 13 healthy controls. Disease activity was measured with the SELENA-SLEDAI index; organ involvement was divided into renal, neurological and hematological.Results: A statistically significant difference (p<0.01) between the mean percentages of CD4+CD25highFoxP3+ Treg cells in SLE patients (18.57%) and healthy controls (32.08%) was observed. Similarly, proportions of functional CTLA-4+ Treg cells were markedly lower in SLE patients than in healthy controls – 19.3% vs. 23.82% (p=0.03). In contrast, SLE patients exhibited a significantly increased frequency of circulating Th17 cells with the phenotype CD4+IL-17+ compared to controls – 1.36 % vs 0.19% (p<0.01). Also the ratio of Th17 cells to Th1 cells was markedly higher in SLE patients than in the control group (p<0.01). We did not find any correlation of PB Th cell distribution with organ involvement in SLE patients examined.Conclusions: Our report showed for the first time that systemic Th17/Treg imbalance occurred also in patients with low disease activity and in remission. We suggest that immunological alterations may precede clinical and laboratory symptoms of the disease activity.
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Magdalena Szmyrka-Kaczmarek, Agata Kosmaczewska, Lidia Ciszak, Aleksandra Szteblich, Piotr Wiland
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