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CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY
卷 185, 期 2, 页码 219-227出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cei.12810
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amniotic infection; early-onset sepsis; FoxP3; preterm infants; regulatory T cells
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- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
- German Centre of Infection Research (DZIF)
- German Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF
- German Society of Research, DFG [IRTG 1911]
The predisposition of preterm neonates to invasive infection is, as yet, incompletely understood. Regulatory T cells (T-regs) are potential candidates for the ontogenetic control of immune activation and tissue damage in preterm infants. It was the aim of our study to characterize lymphocyte subsets and in particular CD4(+)CD25(+)forkhead box protein 3 (FoxP3)(+) T-regs in peripheral blood of well-phenotyped preterm infants (n=117; 23+0 - 36+6 weeks of gestational age) in the first 3 days of life in comparison to term infants and adults. We demonstrated a negative correlation of T-reg frequencies and gestational age. T-regs were increased in blood samples of preterm infants compared to term infants and adults. Notably, we found an increased T-reg frequency in preterm infants with clinical early-onset sepsis while cause of preterm delivery, e.g. chorioamnionitis, did not affect T-reg frequencies. Our data suggest that T-regs apparently play an important role in maintaining maternal-fetal tolerance, which turns into an increased sepsis risk after preterm delivery. Functional analyses are needed in order to elucidate whether T-regs have potential as future target for diagnostics and therapeutics.
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