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JOURNAL OF AUTOIMMUNITY
卷 78, 期 -, 页码 19-28出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2016.12.012
关键词
Interferon-gamma induced chemokines; Primary biliary cholangitis; CD8+T cell gene expression profile; T-bet; KLRG1
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81130058, 81430034, 81401336, 91542123]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB944900]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (RFDP) [20133402110015]
- National Institutes of Health [DK090019]
CXC Chemokine Receptor 3 (CXCR3) is functionally pleiotropic and not only plays an important role in chemotaxis, but also participates in T cell differentiation and may play a critical role in inducing and maintaining immune tolerance. These observations are particularly critical for autoimmune cholangitis in which CXCR3 positive T cells are found around the portal areas of both humans and mouse models of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Herein, we investigated the role of CXCR3 in the pathogenesis of autoimmune cholangitis. We have taken advantage of a unique CXCR3 knockout dnTGF beta RII mouse to focus on the role of CXCR3, both by direct observation of its influence on the natural course of disease, as well as through adoptive transfer studies into Rag -/- mice. We report herein that not only do CXCR3 deficient mice develop an exacerbation of autoimmune cholangitis associated with an expanded effector memory T cell number, but also selective adoptive transfer of CXCR3 deficient CD8(+) T cells induces autoimmune cholangitis. In addition, gene microarray analysis of CXCR3 deficient CD8(+) T cells reveal an intense pro-inflammatory profile. Our data suggests that the altered gene profiles induced by CXCR3 deficiency promotes autoimmune cholangitis through pathogenic CD8(+) T cells. These data have significance for human PBC and other autoimmune liver diseases in which therapeutic intervention might be directed to chemokines and/or their receptors. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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