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CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 132, Issue 2, Pages 246-256Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2009.03.523
Keywords
Autoimmune disease; Muscle IL-4 receptor; Muscle disease; Muscle IL-15; Myasthenia gravis
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- National Institutes of Health [R01NS042116]
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The study reported below describes increased expression of IL-4 receptor in cultured rat myocytes following exposure to an antibody reactive with the acetylcholine receptor (AChR). In addition, upon up-regulation of IL-4R, myocytes demonstrated an increased responsiveness to IL-4 by producing increased levels of IL-15. Moreover, following passive transfer of AChR antibody into Lewis rats, both the increased IL-4R expression and IL-15 production were also observed in intact skeletal muscle, co-localizing in particular individual muscle fibers; the same muscle fibers also produced the chemokine MCP-1 to which IL-4-producing T cells were attracted. A mode( is proposed in which these muscle activities participate in disease progression in experimental myasthenia gravis. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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