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T-lymphocytes regulate genetically determined airway hyperresponsiveness in mice
G T De Sanctis et al. Nat Med. 1997 Apr.
Abstract
Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a hallmark of asthma and a heritable polygenic trait in the mouse. In the mouse, candidate gene products of hematopoietic origin implicated in asthma mapped to the regions of the previously defined quantitative trait loci. Since hematopoietic cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma, we evaluated the role of hematopoietic cells in general and T cells specifically in the genetic modulation of native airway responsiveness in mice. Here, with the use of bone marrow transplantation, anti-T-cell monoclonal antibody treatment and T-cell transfer, we demonstrate that intrinsic non-atopic AHR is mediated by T lymphocytes. Our data support the novel concept that, in the absence of identified environmental influences, T cells enhance genetically determined airway responsiveness.
Comment in
- T lymphocytes: setting the tone of the airways.
Gelfand EW, Irvin CG. Gelfand EW, et al. Nat Med. 1997 Apr;3(4):382-3. doi: 10.1038/nm0497-382. Nat Med. 1997. PMID: 9095167 No abstract available.
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