婴儿期浆细胞样树突状细胞与儿童呼吸道感染和喘息呈负相关
2009/11/17
背景:研究显示,儿童早期免疫功能紊乱在哮喘致病过程中起到重要作用。然而,婴儿期树突状细胞(DCs)的变化是否早于呼吸道感染、哮喘及相关临床表现型尚未完全清楚。
目的:本试验旨在研究1岁内婴儿血液DCs水平与随后发生的呼吸道感染、喘息及变应性致敏之间的相关性。
方法:本研究是以社区为基础队列研究,对有特应性家族史的儿童进行5年的随访。密切监测儿童的呼吸道感染。每年收集研究对象的喘息和哮喘病史,5岁时评价儿童特应性。采用流式细胞仪监测血液DC亚群。
结果:婴儿期浆细胞样DC水平(pDCs)与5岁内婴儿的下呼吸道感染症状、父母主诉的喘息和医生诊断哮喘的累积率成负相关。该相关性独立于变应性,后者通过皮肤过敏试验和总IgE水平,以及特异性IgE水平确定。相反,骨髓DC水平与呼吸道感染、哮喘和喘息无显著相关性,但与5岁时的总IgE水平相关。
结论:对于有特应性家族史的儿童,婴儿期血液循环中的pDCs相对缺乏是呼吸道感染发作频率和严重程度增加、喘息和哮喘诊断的危险因素。婴儿期较高水平的pDCs对预后具有保护作用。
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Upham JW, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Sep 4.
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells during infancy are inversely associated with childhood respiratory tract infections and wheezing.
Upham JW, Zhang G, Rate A, Yerkovich ST, Kusel M, Sly PD, Holt PG.
BACKGROUND: It has been proposed that immune dysfunction during early childhood plays an important role in asthma pathogenesis. However, it is not known specifically whether changes in dendritic cells (DCs) during infancy antedate the development of respiratory tract infections, asthma, and related clinical phenotypes. OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the association between the level of blood DCs during the first year and the subsequent development of respiratory tract infections, wheezing, and allergic sensitization.
METHODS: A community-based cohort of children with a family history of atopy was followed to age 5 years. Children were monitored intensively for respiratory tract infections. History of wheeze and asthma was collected annually, atopy was documented at 5 years, and flow cytometry was used to identify DC subsets in blood samples collected when children were well.
RESULTS: Levels of plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) during infancy were inversely correlated with symptoms of lower respiratory tract infections, parent-reported wheezing, and the cumulative rate of physician-diagnosed asthma up to age 5 years. These relationships were independent of atopy, as determined by allergy skin test results and total and specific IgE levels. In contrast, levels of myeloid DCs were not associated with respiratory tract infections, asthma, or wheezing but were associated with total IgE levels at age 5 years.
CONCLUSION: In children with a family history of atopy, relative deficiency of circulating pDCs during infancy appears to be a risk factor for more frequent and more severe respiratory tract infections, wheezing, and a diagnosis of asthma. Infants with higher numbers of pDCs are protected against these outcomes.
Upham JW, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Sep 4.
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