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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 187, Issue 12, Pages 1374-1381Publisher
AMER THORACIC SOC
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201212-2197OC
Keywords
nontuberculous mycobacteria infections; cilia beat frequency; nasal nitric oxide; Toll-like receptors
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- National Institutes of Health [9U54HL096458-06]
- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- BBSRC [BB/H021930/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Rationale: Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (PNTM) disease has increased over the past several decades, especially in older women. Despite extensive investigation, no consistent immunological abnormalities have been found. Using evidence from diseases such as cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia, in which mucociliary dysfunction predisposes subjects to high rates of nontuberculous mycobacterial disease that increase with age, we investigated correlates of mucociliary function in subjects with PNTM infections and healthy control subjects. Objectives: To define ex vivo characteristics of PNTM disease. Methods: From 2009 to 2012, 58 subjects with PNTM infections and 40 control subjects were recruited. Nasal nitric oxide (nNO) was determined at the time of respiratory epithelial collection. Ciliary beat frequency at rest and in response to Toll-like receptor (TLR) and other agonists was determined using high-speed video microscopy. Measurements and Main Results: We found decreased nNO production, abnormally low resting ciliary beat frequency, and abnormal responses to agonists of TLR2, -3, -5, -7/8, and -9 in subjects with PNTM compared with healthy control subjects. The low ciliary beat frequency in subjects with PNTM was normalized ex vivo by augmentation of the NO-cyclic guanosinemonophosphate pathway without normalization of their TLR agonist responses. Conclusions: Impaired nNO, ciliary beat frequency, and TLR responses in PNTM disease epithelium identify possible underlying susceptibility mechanisms as well as possible avenues for directed investigation and therapy.
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