... converted CD4+ CD25+ Tcells Plots were gated on CD4+ CD25+ DCs Dotted histogram lines represent cells stained with isotype-matched control monoclonal antibodies Data represent the mean ± standard ... increase the proportion of antigen-specific CD4+ CD25+ regulatoryTcells in tolerized mice Figure shows that the percentage of CD4+ CD25+ cells increased significantly after coculture of CD4+ CD25- Tcells ... similar to that in cells cocultured with CD11c+ DCs from CIA mice This result suggests that the conversion into CD4+ CD25+ Tcells without CII stimulation result from the IDO-independent expansion...
... confirmed in longitudinal studies These data therefore indicate the expansion of a T cell population without a regulatory function, which may contribute to the persistent cytotoxic Tcells responses ... supports a potential involvement of the acquired immune response in the pathogenesis of COPD To further evaluate the role of regulatoryTcells in COPD and to clarify whether CD4 + CD25 bright cells ... the upregulation of regulatoryTcells would restrain cigarette smoke-induced inflammatory activation and, thus, the development of COPD [10] In contrast, in smokers who develop COPD, the T regulatory...
... immunization (Fig 2a) This observation suggests that the CD4+ CD25+ regulatoryTcells might not be involved in the development of PGIA Although it has been shown that the CD4+ CD25+ regulatoryTcells ... report that the effective function of the CD4+ CD25+ regulatoryTcells is T- cell receptor (TCR) specific [28] Collectively, our data suggest that the CD4+ CD25+ regulatoryTcells may not be involved ... mediate the induction of the disease CD4+ CD25+ regulatoryTcells may not control autoimmune arthritis To further investigate whether the CD4+ CD25+ Tcells play a role in PGIA, we performed adoptive...
... AAC CTT; Foxp3-RV, TTC TCA CAA CCA GGC CAC TTG; Foxp3-TP, ATC CTA CCC ACT GCT GGC AAA TGG AGT C; TGF-β-FW, TGA CGT CAC TGG AGT TGT ACG G; TGF-β-RV, GGT TCA TGT CAT GGA TGG TGC; TGFβ-TP, TTC AGC ... condition without Treg cells – Radioactivity in condition with Treg cells) /Radioactivity in condition without Treg cells) of the proliferation of Teff cells (CD4+ CD25- ) by increasing numbers of CD4+ CD25+ ... unable to reduce the suppressive effect of wild-type Treg cells against wild-type or IFN-γR KO (data not shown) Teff cells These data demonstrate that the defect in inhibiting CD4+ CD25- Teff cells...
... between patients and healthy volunteers throughout the study period, patients with shock presented with constantly decreased NK absolute To get further insight in to the role of Tregs during septic ... to deplete Tregs, we must acknowledge that anti -CD25 is not specific for Tregs and leads to the depletion of other important cells (activated T cells) Moreover, anti -CD25 antibody may not have ... severity and cytokines plasma concentrations Considering the correlation between Tregs and outcome, at least in septic patients, we evaluated the relation between these cells and severity Indeed, there...
... that the adoptive transfer of CD25- depleted thymocytes to syngeneic nude mice recipients led to a similar spectrum of autoimmune disease to that with CD25 CD4+ peripheral cells [14] CD25 +CD4+ thymocytes ... doubly transgenic mouse have also demonstrated that the CD25 +CD4+ TR cells show a high self-reactivity and differentiate on thymic epithelial cells [41,42] Thus, the central generation of CD25 +CD4+ ... distinctions still remain between the surface phenotype of TR and primed T cells, but they are more relative than absolute For example, although both primed Tcells and TR cells express CD25, the latter...
... against the foreign antigen mBSA clearly demonstrates that their suppressive effect is not strictly limited to autoreactive Tcells Taking into consideration that Treg cells are also critically ... injected with rat IgG (Fig 1) Of note, the antiCD25 treatment almost completely depleted cells with high expression of CD25, which are considered Treg cells, in contrast to CD4+ Tcells with low ... online http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/2/R291 Figure Transfer of regulatoryTcells (Treg cells) cannot cure established arthriarthritis tis Pre-activated CD4+ CD25+ cells (1 × 106) were transferred...
... in CD4+ CD25- Tcells It is also important to note that, although the CD25low population lies adjacent to CD25- on a FACS plot (as shown in Figure 2), they belong to two different cell entities ... patients correlated with disease activity and that the cell number significantly decreased after glucocorticoid treatment [2] Whether these cells are Tregs or activated Teffs remains to be determined ... with untreated new-onset lupus (UNOL) (UNOL) intracellular Foxp3 in CD4+ CD25- Tcells and that CD4+ CD25- CD127low/- Tcells could not be used as a live substitute for CD4+ CD25- Foxp3+ Tcells to...
... of CD8+ Tcells to WT1 or CEA or both are shown as the percentage of the total population of CD8+ Tcells that were double positive (CD8+pentamer+) Cytotoxicity assays The cytotoxicity assays ... factors in the supernatant inhibit the maturation of fusion cells and have a negative impact in the stimulation of Tcells To determine the induction of WT1-specitic CD8+ T cells, a pentameric assay ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/6/1/51 Figure The ability of vaccination with autologous FCs to stimulate Tcells The ability of vaccination with autologous FCs to stimulate Tcells A, Nonadherent PBMCs obtained...
... Cytotoxicity of In Vivo Generated TCells T2 -cytotoxicity Cumulative cytotoxicity results for all patient samples show that after two cycles of vaccination (the time point associated with the ... substantial generation of tetramer+, CD8+, Tcells In fact, the responses generated to the two DC preparations were atypical only in this particular patient The remaining patients showed the pattern ... that hTERT p540 is not expressed or is cryptic on the surface of tumour cells and that immunization of cancer patients with hTERT p540 leads to the production of Tcells that not recognize tumour...
... exported from thymus to the periphery within recent thymic emigrants (RTEs), therefore, the frequency of sjTRECs is considered to be the most accurate marker of T- cell neogenesis Quantitative detection ... doesn 't allow the evaluation of the complexity of thymic output in different TRBV subfamily naïve T cells, which is an important factor in immune competence In this study, we analyzed the total ... Germany) After CD4+ and CD8+ Tcells sorting, the purity was determined by indirect immune fluorescent analysis The positive cells were around 95% to 97% DNA extraction Total DNA from distinct cell...
... mucosa represents a unique immunologic unit with the first contact with the allergen within the gastrointestinal tract, where immune tolerance is the natural outcome Freshly isolated oral LCs expressed ... Treg cells, account for to 10% of peripheral CD4+ Tcells and inhibit the activation of effector Tcells in the periphery.38,39 FOXP3, the transcriptional regulator expressed on Treg cells, acts ... et al, RegulatoryTCells in the Context of Allergic Disease thus preventing the activation of mast cells and basophils IgG4 has been shown to reduce the IgE-mediated degranulation of these cells...
... joint These features were apparent in the vast majority of the patients despite the different treatments they received, indicating that the anti-rheumatic drugs that patients receive not affect the ... enrichment of regulatoryTcells was seen Thus, the simple extrapolation of the animal data into future therapeutic strategies that aim at reconstituting this population does not seem to hold true ... referred to as responder cells (RSF) The sorting gate for CD25brightCD4+ Tcells was adjusted to contain CD4+ Tcells that expressed CD25 more brightly than activated CD25+ CD8+ Tcells SFMC not expressing...
... effectors Activation also induces a subset of CD4+ CD25Tcells to upregulate CD25 and FoxP3 and acquire CD25 +CD4+ (TR) cell function These cells may result from activation at the initiation of the ... It is thought that TR cells in mice represent those thymocytes with the highest affinity for self-peptide but that are below the threshold of negative selection [50] Only a small number of TR ... activation of CD4+ CD25Tcells with mature, allogeneic dendritic cells, and these Tcells also expressed FoxP3 The specificity of the TR cells was determined by the type of mature dendritic cells...
... Evidence that the T cell repertoire of normal rats contains cells with the potential to cause diabetes Characterization of the CD4+ T cell subset that inhibits this autoimmune potential J Exp ... activation of CD4+ CD25+ cells is antigen specific, once these cells are activated they not only suppress Tcells stimulated by the same antigen, but they also inhibit Tcells stimulated by other ... death of some Tcells [48,49], while others observed that this cytokine protected Tcells from apoptosis [50,51] We favor the hypothesis that TGF-β promotes the death of mature Th1 and Th2 cells...
... population of Treg and documentation of their in vivo potential was an important next step In pursuit of this goal, recent studies demonstrated for the first time that the transfer of in vitro ... in the absence of TGF-β and/or if TGF-β is dysregulated The identification and intersection points of such pathways await further study Among the factors that contribute to the regulation of TGF-β ... abnormalities have been attributed, at least partly, to defective production and function of TGF-β [12,66] In contrast to strong suspicions, few data yet exist as to whether the uncontrolled T and...
... before treatment with anti-TNF-α were unable to suppress proinflammatory cytokine secretion from activated Tcells and monocytes After anti-TNF-α treatment the ‘hibernated’ peripheral blood CD4+ CD25+ ... all these studies CD4+ CD25+ Treg were detected in the joints or synovial fluid of the patients In these reports it was also shown that the identified CD4+ CD25+ Treg had a suppressive function ... might not be a feasible option treatment decreases the infiltrate in joints Furthermore, RA patients relapse shortly after withdrawal of anti-TNF-α [19] and thus, despite the dampening of joint...
... groups attributed the defects to the Tregs, but one group reported increased resistance to suppression [57] This resistance positively correlated with disease activity Although this group attributed ... erythematosus RegulatoryTcells (Tregs) (red) and effector T cells, shown as potentially pathogenic anti-self Tcells (blue), can affect the maturation of immature dendritic cells (DCs) to immunogenic ... documenting that CD4+ CD25high cells in SLE are similar to those of healthy donors [57,58] A third group reported that although the percentage of CD4+ CD25high cells in SLE in patients with active...
... replication DCs infected with P3 attenuated allostimulatory activities to Tcells To test whether P3 infection will impair the ability of DCs to activate allogeneic naïve T cells, the direct effect ... and activate T lymphocytes through up-regulating the expression of costimulatory and antigen presentation-associtated molecules at the mature stage [17] To examine whether the characteristics ... T cells, the number of spot forming units/106 purified Tcells was counted after twenty four hour incubation with differently treated bmDCs or spDCs The results in vitro showed that P3-infected...
... found that the purified CD39 + CD4 + CD25 high Tcells were almost FOXP3 positive and were almost CD127 negative, indicating that these Tcells were Tregs The most important finding in the present ... of activation status [34] Furthermore, these markers cannot be used to identify Treg poststimulation in vitro, since their expression patterns change toward the Treg phenotype upon activation ... representative dot plots of CD39+Tregs and Th17 cells detected in naïve CD4+ Tcells after culturing in presence both IL-1b and IL-6 (C) The representative dot plots of CD39+Tregs and Th17 cells detected...