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- Title
Dysregulation of Th17 Cells during the Early Post-Transplant Period in Patients under Calcineurin Inhibitor Based Immunosuppression.
- Authors
Byung Ha Chung; Kyoung Woon Kim; Bo-Mi Kim; Shang Guo Piao; Sun Woo Lim; Bum Soon Choi; Cheol Whee Park; Yong-Soo Kim; Mi-La Cho; Chul Woo Yang
- Abstract
Accumulating evidence suggests that Th17 cells play a role in the development of chronic allograft injury in transplantation of various organs. However, the influence of current immunosuppressants on Th17-associated immune responses has not been fully investigated. We prospectively investigated the changes in Th17 cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) collected before and 1 and 3 months after KT in 26 patients and we investigated the suppressive effect of tacrolimus on Th17 in vitro. In the early posttransplant period, the percentage of Th17 cells and the proportion of IL-17- producing cells in the effector memory T cells (TEM) were significantly increased at 3 months after transplantation compared with before transplantation (P,0.05), whereas Th1/Th2 cells and TEM cells were significantly decreased. The degree of increase in Th17 during the early posttransplant period was significantly associated with allograft function at 1 year after transplantation (r = 0.4, P<0.05). In vitro, tacrolimus suppressed Th1 and Th2 cells in a concentration-dependent manner, but did not suppress Th17 cells even at high concentration. This suggests that current immunosuppression based on tacrolimus is inadequate to suppress Th17 cells in KTRs, and dysregulation of Th17 may be associated with the progression of CAD.
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0042011