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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
卷 118, 期 8, 页码 2939-2949出版社
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI34496
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Immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) is a bleeding disorder in which platelet-specific autoantibodies cause a loss of platelets. In a subset of patients with ITP and infected with Helicobacter pylori, the number of platelets recovers after eradication of H. pylori. To examine the role of H. pylori infection in the pathogenesis of ITP, the response of 34 ITP patients to treatment with a standard H. pylori eradication regimen, irrespective of whether they were infected with H. pylori, was evaluated. Eradication of H. pylori was achieved in an H. pylori-positive patients, and a significant increase in platelets was observed in 61% of these patients. By contrast, none of the H. pylori-negative patients showed increased platelets. At baseline, monocytes from the H. pylori-positive patients exhibited an enhanced phagocytic capacity and low levels of the inhibitory Fc gamma receptor IIB (Fc gamma RIIB). One week after starting the H. pylori eradication regimen, this activated monocyte phenotype was suppressed and improvements in autoimmune and platelet kinetic parameters followed. Modulation of monocyte Fc gamma R balance was also found in association with H. pylori infection in individuals who did not have ITP and in mice. Our findings strongly suggest that the recovery in platelet numbers observed in ITP patients after H. pylori eradication is mediated through a change in Fc gamma R balance toward the inhibitory Fc gamma RIIB.
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