High-Dose Cyclophosphamide Administration Orchestrates Phenotypic and Functional Alterations of Immature Dendritic Cells and Regulates Th Cell Polarization

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Lei BaoWu Yao

Abstract

High-dose cyclophosphamide (CTX) inhibits the immune response. Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells (APCs) with a crucial role in initiating immune responses and sustaining immune tolerance. The relative contribution of DCs to immunosuppression induced by high-dose CTX is not well-documented. In this study, we employed the CTX-induced immunosuppressive rat model to examine alterations in DCs. We generated and cultured monocyte-derived immature DCs (imDCs) in vitro and explored their capacity of antigen uptake, T cell priming, cytokine production, and surface marker expression following high-dose CTX. Subsequently, we co-cultured CTX-treated imDCs with Th cells to determine Th cell polarization, and further explored the Toll-like receptor/Myeloid differentiation primary response 88/Mitogen-activated protein kinase (TLR/MyD88/MAPK) pathway. Our results show reduced cell number and surface maker alterations in splenic CD103+ DCs of CTX-treated immunosuppressed rats. In vitro, high-dose CTX weakened the antigen uptake capacity and enhanced the T cell priming capacity of imDCs, in addition to triggering imDC surface marker alterations. TLR, MyD88, and MAPK expression levels, involved in mediating Th cell p...Continue Reading

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