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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 172, Issue 9, Pages 5774-5781Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5774
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- RMOD NIH HHS [R01 RM64805-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Surgical adhesions are a common and often severe complication of abdominal or pelvic injury that cause pelvic pain, bowel obstruction, and infertility in women. Current treatments are of limited effectiveness because little is known about the cellular and subcellular processes underlying adhesiogenesis. Recently, we showed that Th1 alphabeta CD4(+) T cells mediate the pathogenesis of adhesion formation in a rodent model of this disease process. In this study, we demonstrate that in mice these T cells home directly to the site of surgically induced adhesions and control local chemokine production in a manner dependent on the CD28 T cell costimulatory pathway. Conversely, the inhibitory programmed death-1 pathway plays a central role in limiting adhesiogenesis, as programmed death-1 blockade was associated with increased T cell infiltration, chemokine production, and a concomitant exacerbation of disease. Our results reveal for the first time that the development of postsurgical fibrosis is under the tight control of positive and negative T cell costimulation, and suggest that targeting these pathways may provide promising therapies for the prevention of adhesion formation.
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