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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 191, Issue 12, Pages 5811-5821Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301329
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- National Institutes of Health [T32 HL076122, T32 ES07122, NIGMS P30, GM103532, R01 HL060014]
- American Thoracic Society
- Parker B. Francis fellowship
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NF-kappa B activation within the epithelium has been implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma, yet the exact role of epithelial NF-kappa B in allergen-induced inflammation and airway remodeling remains unclear. In the current study, we used an intranasal house dust mite (HDM) extract exposure regimen time course in BALB/c mice to evaluate inflammation, NF-kappa B activation, airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR), and airway remodeling. We used CC10-I kappa B alpha(SR) transgenic mice to evaluate the functional importance of epithelial NF-kappa B in response to HDM. After a single exposure of HDM, mRNA expression of proinflammatory mediators was significantly elevated in lung tissue of wild-type (WT) mice, in association with increases in nuclear RelA and RelB, components of the classical and alternative NF-kappa B pathway, respectively, in the bronchiolar epithelium. In contrast, CC10-I kappa B alpha(SR) mice displayed marked decreases in nuclear RelA and RelB and mRNA expression of proinflammatory mediators compared with WT mice. After 15 challenges with HDM, WT mice exhibited increases in inflammation, AHR, mucus metaplasia, and peribronchiolar fibrosis. CC10-I kappa B alpha(SR) transgenic mice displayed marked decreases in neutrophilic infiltration, tissue damping, and elastance parameters, in association will less peribronchiolar fibrosis and decreases in nuclear RelB in lung tissue. However, central airway resistance and mucus metaplasia remained elevated in CC10-I kappa B alpha(SR) transgenic mice, in association with the continued presence of lymphocytes, and partial decreases in eosinophils and IL-13. The current study demonstrates that following airway exposure with an asthma-relevant allergen, activation of classical and alternative NF-kappa B pathways occurs within the airway epithelium and may coordinately contribute to allergic inflammation, AHR, and fibrotic airway remodeling.
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