Journal
CHEST
Volume 153, Issue 6, Pages 1424-1431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.10.033
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ADCC; autoantibody; autoimmunity; BALT; mAbs
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- DykoMed Ltd
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Asthma UK [MRC-Asthma UK Centre, MRC-AsthmaUKCentre] Funding Source: researchfish
- British Heart Foundation [PG/14/27/30679] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G1000758B, G1000758] Funding Source: researchfish
- The Dunhill Medical Trust [R368/0714] Funding Source: researchfish
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COPD is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Long-term cigarette smoking is the cause of > 90% of COPD cases in Westernized countries. However, only a fraction of chronic heavy smokers develop symptomatic COPD by age 80. COPD is characterized by an abnormal immune response in the lower airways, and its progression is associated with infiltration of the lung by innate and adaptive inflammatory immune cells that form lymphoid follicles. There is growing evidence that both cellular-and antibody-mediated autoimmunity has a fundamental role in the pathogenesis of stable COPD. In particular, carbonyl-modified proteins may help to drive autoimmunity in COPD and cause the characteristic small airways abnormalities and even contribute to the pathogenesis of pulmonary emphysema. Although direct, indirect, and circumstantial evidence of a role for autoimmunity in stable patients with COPD has been identified, no cause-and-effect relationship between autoimmunity and the mechanisms of COPD has been firmly established in man. As such, the potential contribution of an autoimmune response to the pathogenesis of COPD exacerbation is still being investigated and represents an area of active research. Many drugs targeting autoimmune responses are already available, and the results of controlled clinical trials are awaited with great interest. The potential for measuring specific serum autoantibodies as biomarkers to predict clinical phenotypes or progression of stable COPD is promising.
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