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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue 6, Pages 2211-2224Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2009.080941
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- Swedish Society for Medical Research
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
- Sida/SAREC
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation
- National Board of Health and Welfare
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Immune responses were assessed at the single-cell level in lymph nodes from children with tuberculous lymphadenitis. Tuberculosis infection was associated with tissue remodeling of lymph nodes as well as altered cellular composition. Granulomas were significantly enriched with CD68+ macrophages expressing the M. tuberculosis complex-specific protein antigen MPT64 and inducible nitric oxide synthase. There was a significant increase in CD8+ cytolytic T cells surrounding the granuloma; however, CD8+ T cells expressed low levels of the cytolytic and antimicrobial effector molecules perforin and granulysin in the granulomatous lesions. Quantitative real-time mRNA analysis revealed that interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and interleukin-17 were not up-regulated in infected lymph nodes, but there was a significant induction of both transforming growth factor-beta and interleukin-13. In addition, granulomas contained an increased number of CD4+FoxP3+ T cells co-expressing the immunoregulatory cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 and glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor molecules. Low numbers of CD8+ T cells in the lesions correlated with high levels of transforming growth factor-beta and FoxP3+ regulatory T cells, suggesting active immuuo-suppression at the local infection site. Compartmentalization and skewing of the immune response toward a regulatory phenotype may result in an uncoordinated effector T-cell response that reduces granule-mediated killing of M. tuberculosis-infected cells and subsequent disease control. (Am J Pathol 2009, 174:2211-2224; DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2009.080941)
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