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TOXICOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 348, Issue -, Pages 28-39Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2021.05.010
Keywords
COPD; Biomass smoke; TLR2; Dendritic cells; Th17
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFC1304101]
- Guangdong Province Key Field RD Program [2020B1111330001]
- Local Innovative and Research Teams Project of Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program [2017BT01S155]
- National Science Foundation of China [81970045, 82000045, 81900030]
- Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease [SKLRD-Z-202103]
- Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University [2019B07]
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Research has shown that biomass smoke exposure may induce Th17 responses through activation of dendritic cells and lead to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a rat model. By studying the role of antigen-presenting cells and the effect of biomass-related particulate matter, it was found that biomass smoke activates lung dendritic cells via the Toll-like receptor 2 pathway.
Almost three billion people in developing countries are exposed to biomass smoke (BS), which predisposes them to developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is associated with abnormal innate and adaptive immune responses in the lungs and systemic circulation, but the mechanisms underlying BS-COPD development are uncertain. We investigated the role of dendritic cells (DCs) and interleukin (IL)-17A in BS-COPD. We investigated T helper cell responses in the BS-exposed COPD rat model by flow cytometry, quantitative PCR, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. We conducted ex vivo experiments to determine which antigen-presenting cells induce Th17 cell responses. We evaluated the in vitro effects of BS-related particulate matter (BRPM) (2.5 mu m) on the function of bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs). We found that BS exposure enhanced Th17 responses in the lungs of the COPD-modelled rats, and the stimulated DCs (but not the macrophages) were sufficient to induce naive CD4 + T cells to produce IL-17A in ex vivo experiments. BRPM significantly enhanced the maturation and activation of DCs through Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), but not TLR4, and induced Th17 responses. Therefore, BS activated lung DCs through TLR2, which led to Th17 responses and emphysema in the rats. This process is possibly therapeutically targetable. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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