Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 746-755Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145710001653
Keywords
Activated inflammatory response system; cytokines; regulatory T cells; schizophrenia; Th17
Funding
- The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
- European Union
- Stanley Medical Research Institute
- AstraZeneca
- Eli Lilly
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Wyeth
- Pfizer
- Servier
- Janssen-Cilag
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- [KP7-HEALTH-2007-B]
- [222963]
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We recently described a pro-inflammatory gene expression signature in the monocytes of 60% of patients with recent-onset schizophrenia (SCZ). Here we investigated whether the T-cell system is also in a pro-inflammatory state. A detailed fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis, e. g. of CD3(+) CD25(+) T cells, IFN-gamma(+), IL-4(+), IL-17A(+) (CD4(+)) lymphocytes and CD4(+) CD25(high)FoxP3(+) regulatory T cells, was performed on peripheral blood of 26 patients with recent-onset SCZ (in 19 of whom the inflammatory gene expression signature of the monocyte had been determined) and in age-/gender-matched healthy controls. Various relevant T-cell cytokines, e.g. sCD25, IFN-gamma, IL-17A and IL-4, were measured in serum by a multiplex assay. We detected : (a) not only higher percentages of pro-inflammatory-prone monocytes, activated CD3(+) CD25(+) T cells and pro-inflammatory Th17 cells in patients, but also higher percentages of anti-inflammatory CD4(+) CD25(high)FoxP3(+) regulatory T cells and IL-4(+) lymphocytes; (b) that this activated T-cell set point was reflected in significantly raised serum levels of sCD25; (c) that the up-regulation of IL-4(+)-containing lymphocytes was predominantly found in patients characterized by a monocyte pro-inflammatory set point; and (d) that regulatory T-cell and Th17-cell numbers were higher in patients irrespective of the pro-inflammatory state of the monocytes. Our data do not support the concept that the T-cell system is in a simple pro-inflammatory state in recent-onset SCZ, but do show that the monocyte and T-cell networks are activated and involve both pro-and anti-inflammatory forces. This suggests control within an activated inflammatory system.
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