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JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
卷 112, 期 5, 页码 983-1012出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/JLB.2RU0421-226RR
关键词
ATP; glia; immune cells; P2X; P2Y
资金
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
Purinergic receptors play important roles in the immune system, particularly the P2 receptors that regulate leukocyte activity. This review examines the characteristics of P2 receptor subtypes in the immune system and their involvement in infectious diseases, inflammation, and pain.
Since their discovery in the 1970s, purinergic receptors have been shown to play key roles in a wide variety of biologic systems and cell types. In the immune system, purinergic receptors participate in innate immunity and in the modulation of the adaptive immune response. In particular, P2 receptors, which respond to extracellular nucleotides, are widely expressed on leukocytes, causing the release of cytokines and chemokines and the formation of inflammatory mediators, and inducing phagocytosis, degranulation, and cell death. The activity of these receptors is regulated by ectonucleotidases-expressed in these same cell types-which regulate the availability of nucleotides in the extracellular environment. In this article, we review the characteristics of the main purinergic receptor subtypes present in the immune system, focusing on the P2 family. In addition, we describe the physiologic roles of the P2 receptors already identified in leukocytes and how they can positively or negatively modulate the development of infectious diseases, inflammation, and pain.
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