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JOURNAL OF AUTOIMMUNITY
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 1-6出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2009.08.008
关键词
Liver tolerance; Regulatory T cells; Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells; Kupffer cells; Ito cells; IL-10; TGF beta
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- European Association
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [TI 169/8]
The 'liver tolerance effect' mediates local and systemic tolerance to self and foreign antigens and has been attributed to specialized resident cells expressing anti-inflammatory mediators and inhibitory cell surface ligands for T cell activation. Non-parenchymal liver cells responsible for the tolerogenic properties of the liver are the resident dendritic cells (DCs), which comprise myeloid as well as plasmacytoid DCs, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs), Kupffer cells (KCs) as well as hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), also known as Ito cells. These cells mediate immunosuppression by production of anti-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-10 and TGF beta as well as by expression of the negative co-stimulator for T cell activation programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1). An interesting observation in this context is that knockout of IL-10 or PD-L1 (or the receptor PD-1) does not necessarily result in inflammatory liver damage whereas transgenic inhibition of TGF beta signaling induces liver disease in mice resembling chronic cholangitis. However, depending on the mouse model and on the type of injury, e.g. autoimmune disease, allograft rejection or viral infection, IL-10 or TGF beta and/or PD-1 as well as cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) contribute to the immunosuppressive mechanisms of CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs), which seem to be converted in the liver from infiltrating conventional naive CD4(+) T cells and/or effector CD4(+) T cells to control the disease. Finally, hepatocytes also contribute to the 'liver tolerance effect' by expression of MHC class II molecules, probably low levels of co-stimulatory molecules and high levels of the co-inhibitory molecule PD-L1. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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