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Polarization of M1 and M2 Human Monocyte-Derived Cells and Analysis with Flow Cytometry upon <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> Infection

Human macrophages are primary host cells of intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and thus have a central role in immune control of ...

Karolinska Institutet

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

Treatment of shigellosis in rabbits with butyrate reduces clinical severity and counteracts the downregulation of cathelicidin (CAP-18) in the large intestinal epithelia. Here, we aimed to evaluate whether butyrate can be used as an adjunct to antibiotics in the treatment of shigellosis in patients.

Efficacy of sodium butyrate adjunct therapy in shigellosis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Prenatal arsenic exposure is associated with increased infant morbidity and reduced thymus size, indicating arsenic-related developmental immunotoxicity. We aimed to evaluate effects of prenatal arsenic exposure on thymic function at birth and related mechanisms of action. In a Bangladeshi cohort, arsenic was measured in urine (U-As, gestational week (GW) 8 and 30) and blood (B-As, GW14) in 130 women. Child thymic index was measured by sonography at birth and thymic function by signal-joint T-cell receptor-rearrangement excision circles (sjTRECs) in cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMC). In a subsample (n = 44), sjTRECs content in isolated CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, expression of oxidative-stress defense and apoptosis-related genes in CBMC, arsenic concentrations (urine, placenta, and cord blood), and oxidative stress markers in placenta and cord blood were measured. In multivariable-adjusted regression, ln U-As (GW8) was inversely associated with ln sjTRECs in CBMC (B = -0.25; 95% confidence interval [CI] -0.48 to -0.01). Using multivariable-adjusted spline regression, ln U-As (GW30) and ln B-As (GW14) were inversely associated with ln sjTRECs in CBMC (B = -0.53; 95% CI -0.93 to -0.13 and B = -1.27; 95% CI -1.89 to -0.66, respectively) below spline knots at U-As 150 µg/l and B-As 6 µg/kg. Similar inverse associations were observed in separated CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. Arsenic was positively associated with 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine in cord blood (B = 0.097; 95% CI 0.05 to 0.13), which was inversely associated with sjTRECs in CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. In conclusion, prenatal arsenic exposure was associated with reduced thymic function, possibly via induction of oxidative stress and apoptosis, suggesting subsequent immunosuppression in childhood.

In utero arsenic exposure is associated with impaired thymic function in newborns possibly via oxidative stress and apoptosis.

We earlier showed that 4-phenylbutyrate (PB) can induce cathelicidin LL-37 expression synergistically with 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in a lung epithelial cell line. We aimed to evaluate a therapeutic dose of PB alone or in combination with vitamin D3 for induction of LL-37 expression in immune cells and enhancement of antimycobacterial activity in monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM).

Oral intake of phenylbutyrate with or without vitamin D3 upregulates the cathelicidin LL-37 in human macrophages: a dose finding study for treatment of tuberculosis.

Development of new tuberculosis (TB) drugs and alternative treatment strategies are urgently required to control the global spread of TB. Previous results have shown that vitamin D3 (vitD3) and 4-phenyl butyrate (PBA) are potent inducers of the host defense peptide LL-37 that possess anti-mycobacterial effects.

Significant Effects of Oral Phenylbutyrate and Vitamin D3 Adjunctive Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

We have previously shown that 8 weeks' treatment with phenylbutyrate (PBA) (500mgx2/day) with or without vitamin D (vitD) (5000 IU/day) as host-directed therapy (HDT) accelerated clinical recovery, sputum culture conversion and increased expression of cathelicidin LL-37 by immune cells in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). In this study we further aimed to examine whether HDT with PBA and vitD promoted clinically beneficial immunomodulation to improve treatment outcomes in TB patients.

Akhirunnesa Mily

Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM),
Department of Medicine Huddinge,
ANA Futura,
Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, ANA Futura

Karolinska Institutet

Polarization of M1 and M2 Human Monocyte-Derived Cells and Analysis with Flow Cytometry upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Akhirunnesa Mily

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Karolinska Institutet

Polarization of M1 and M2 Human Monocyte-Derived Cells and Analysis with Flow Cytometry upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM),
Department of Medicine Huddinge,
ANA Futura,
Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, ANA Futura