Schistosoma mansoni Antigens Modulate Experimental Allergic Asthma in a Murine Model: a Major Role for CD4 + CD25 + Foxp3 + T Cells Independent of Interleukin-10
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 77 (1), 98-107
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.00783-07
Abstract
In areas where schistosomiasis is endemic, a negative correlation is observed between atopy and helminth infection, associated with a low prevalence of asthma. We investigated whether Schistosoma mansoni infection or injection of parasite eggs can modulate airway allergic inflammation in mice, examining the mechanisms of such regulation. We infected BALB/c mice with 30 S. mansoni cercariae or intraperitoneally injected 2,500 schistosome eggs, and experimental asthma was induced by ovalbumin (OVA). The number of eosinophils in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was higher in the asthmatic group than in asthmatic mice infected with S. mansoni or treated with parasite eggs. Reduced Th2 cytokine production, characterized by lower levels of interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-5, and immunoglobulin E, was observed in both S. mansoni -treated groups compared to the asthmatic group. There was a reduction in the number of inflammatory cells in lungs of S. mansoni -infected and egg-treated mice, demonstrating that both S. mansoni infection and the egg treatment modulated the lung inflammatory response to OVA. Only allergic animals that were treated with parasite eggs had increased numbers of CD4 + CD25 + Foxp3 + T cells and increased levels of IL-10 and decreased production of CCL2, CCL3, and CCL5 in the lungs compared to the asthmatic group. Neutralization of IL-10 receptor or depletion of CD25 + T cells in vivo confirmed the critical role of CD4 + CD25 + Foxp3 + regulatory T cells in experimental asthma modulation independent of IL-10.Keywords
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