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JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 122, Issue 6, Pages 1145-1153Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.09.033
Keywords
Chronic rhinosinusitis; epithelial; innate; cigarette smoke; viral; RANTES; exacerbations; eosinophilic
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- Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute
- Merck
- National Institutes of Health-National Institutes of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
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Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is characterized by persistent mucosal inflammation and frequent exacerbations. Objective: To determine whether innate epithelial responses to cigarette smoke or bacterial or viral pathogens may be abnormal in CRS leading to an inappropriate inflammatory response. Methods: Primary nasal epithelial cells (PNECs) were grown from middle turbinate biopsies of 9 healthy controls and 11 patients with CRS. After reaching 80% to 90% confluence, PNECs were exposed to medium or cigarette smoke extract (CSE) 5% (vol/vol) for I hour, washed, then stimulated with staphylococcal lipoteichoic acid, LPS, or double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). After 24 hours, gene expression was quantified by QRT-PCR. Results: At baseline, PNECs revealed elevated TNF-alpha and growth-related oncogene-alpha (a C-X-C chemokine)/CXCLI (GRO-alpha) (4-fold increase, P = .02; and 16-fold increase, P = .004, respectively) in subjects with CRS compared with controls with normal levels of IL-1 beta, 11-6, IL-8/CXCL8, human beta-defensin-2, monocyte chemoattractant protein 2/CCL8, monocyte chemoattractant protein 3/CCL7, and regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES)/CCL5. Immunostaining of nasal biopsies, however, revealed comparable epithelial staining for TNF-alpha, GRO-alpha, and RANTES. There were no differences in mRNA induction bv CSE, TNF-alpha, lipoteichoic acid, LPS, or dsRNA alone. The combination of CSE+dsRNA induced exaggerated RANTES (12,115-fold vs 1500-fold; P = .03) and human beta-defensin-2 (1120-fold vs 12.5-fold; P =.05) in subjects with CRS. No other genes were differentially induced. Furthermore, CSE+dsRNA induced normal levels of IFN-beta, lFN-lambda 1, and IFN-lambda 2/3 mRNA in subjects with CRS. Conclusion: Cigarette smoke extract plus dsRNA induces exaggerated epithelial RANTES expression in patients with CRS. We propose that an analogous response to cigarette smoke plus viral infection may contribute to acute exacerbations and eosinophilic mucosal inflammation in CRS. (J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008;122:1145-53.)
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