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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
卷 117, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2023.109912
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Leptin; Thymocyte; pDCs; Regulatory cells
Leptin, a hormone derived from fat cells, plays a crucial role in regulating food intake, body weight, immunity, and reproduction. It signals through specific membrane receptors in immune cells, including dendritic cells and thymocytes. Leptin affects the distribution and function of thymocytes by influencing activated dendritic cells.
Leptin, the adipocyte-derived hormone, involved in regulating food intake and body weight, plays an important role in immunity and reproduction. Leptin signals via the specific membrane receptors expressed in most types of immune cells including dendritic cells (DCs) and thymocytes. Leptin enhances thymopoiesis and modulates T-cell-mediated immunity. Thymic plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) are predominated in the thymus. They play an important role in thymocyte differentiation. We have analyzed whether leptin mediates its effects on human thymocytes by influencing on pDCs. We used leptin at concentration corresponding to its level during II-III trimesters of physiological pregnancy. We cultivated leptin-primed pDCs with autologous thymocytes and esti-mated the main thymocyte subsets expressing alpha beta chains of the T-cell receptor (alpha beta TCR), natural regulatory T-cells (tTreg), natural T-helpers producing interleukin-17 (nTh17) and invariant natural killer T-cells (iNKT) in vitro. We have shown that leptin augmented CD86, CD276 expressions and depressed IL-10 productions by pDCs. Leptin-primed pDCs decreased the percentage of CD4(+)CD8(+)alpha beta TCR+ thymocytes, increased CD4(hi)CD8(-/lo)alpha beta TCR+ cells. pDCs cultivated with leptin decreased the number of iNKT precursors, and did not change the number of tTreg and nTh17 precursors. Thus, leptin's important role in regulation of thymic pDC abilities to influence on the thymocyte distribution was indicated in vitro.
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