期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 18, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms18102219
关键词
lipopolysaccharide; double-stranded RNA; epithelial cell; dendritic cell; allergic respiratory disorder; hygiene hypothesis; rhinovirus; respiratory syncytial virus; toll-like receptor
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology [MOST 105-2321-B-075B-001]
- Kaohsiung Chang Gung Hospital [CMRPD8G0081-3, CMRPD8F0171-3]
- Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital [VGHKS106-150]
The original hygiene hypothesis declares more infections in early childhood protect against later atopy. According to the hygiene hypothesis, the increased incidence of allergic disorders in developed countries is explained by the decrease of infections. Epithelial cells and dendritic cells play key roles in bridging the innate and adaptive immune systems. Among the various pattern-recognition receptor systems of epithelial cells and dendritic cells, including toll-like receptors (TLRs), nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) and others, TLRs are the key systems of immune response regulation. In humans, TLRs consist of TLR1 to TLR10. They regulate cellular responses through engagement with TLR ligands, e.g., lipopolysaccharides (LPS) acts through TLR4 and dsRNA acts through TLR3, but there are certain common components between these two TLR pathways. dsRNA activates epithelial cells and dendritic cells in different directions, resulting in allergy-related Th2-skewing tendency in epithelial cells, and Th1-skewing tendency in dendritic cells. The Th2-skewing effect by stimulation of dsRNA on epithelial cells could be suppressed by the presence of LPS above some threshold. When LPS level decreases, the Th2-skewing effect increases. It may be via these interrelated networks and related factors that LPS modifies the allergic responses and provides a plausible mechanism of the hygiene hypothesis. Several hygiene hypothesis-related phenomena, seemingly conflicting, are also discussed in this review, along with their proposed mechanisms.
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