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- Title
Novel Treatment of Experimental Autoimmune Prostatitis by Nanoparticle-Conjugated Autoantigen Peptide T2.
- Authors
Cheng, Yijie; Cao, Yanfang; Ihsan, Awais Ullah; Khan, Farhan Ullah; Li, Xue; Xie, Dianyou; Cui, Xingxing; Wang, Wenlu; Liu, Ziwei; Li, Cunyu; Ahmad, Khalil Ali; Sembatya, Kiganda Raymond; Mikrani, Reyaj; Zhou, Xiaohui
- Abstract
The exact etiology and pathogenesis of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) are still unknown, as a result, available therapeutic options for patients are far from satisfactory. Therefore, there is a need to develop a valid therapeutic approach that can ameliorate the manifestations of CP/CPPS. Fifty male C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into five groups of ten mice each. All groups except naïve were subcutaneously injected with 0.2 ml of T2 plus complete Freund adjuvant (CFA) on day 0 and 14 to generate valid CP/CPPS model. After successful CP/CPPS induction, model group was injected with 0.2 ml of normal saline while PLGA, PLGA-OVA, and PLGA-T2 groups were administered intravenously with 0.2 ml mixture of PLGA, PLGA-OVA, and PLGA-T2, respectively. Voiding behavior, pain threshold, and hematoxylin and eosin staining were used to assess micturition habits, pain intensity as well as prostate inflammation. Additionally, TNF-α, CRP, and IL-10 levels in plasma were measured by using ELISA kits. Mice administered with PLGA-T2 showed higher pain threshold, lower urine frequencies, mild edema, and inflammation in prostate tissue in comparison to other groups. Moreover, the expression of TNF-α and CRP levels was markedly decreased while IL-10 expression was increased in the PLGA-T2 treatment group as compared to the other groups. Our results showed that nanoparticles conjugated with autoantigen novel peptide T2 could successfully alleviate or even heal CP/CPPS to some extent in mice. This study provides an easy, useful, and economic tool for ameliorating the manifestations of CP/CPPS that will improve the therapeutic approaches.
- Subjects
INVESTIGATIONAL therapies; EOSIN; PROSTATITIS; PAIN threshold; PELVIC pain; ETIOLOGY of diseases; PROSTATE-specific antigen
- Publication
Inflammation, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 3, p1071
- ISSN
0360-3997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10753-019-00968-5