PMID: 15240738Jul 9, 2004Paper

Production of profibrotic cytokines by invariant NKT cells characterizes cirrhosis progression in chronic viral hepatitis

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
C De LallaP Dellabona

Abstract

Invariant (inv)NKT cells are a subset of autoreactive lymphocytes that recognize endogenous lipid ligands presented by CD1d, and are suspected to regulate the host response to cell stress and tissue damage via the prompt production of cytokines. We investigated invNKT cell response during the progression of chronic viral hepatitis caused by hepatitis B or C virus infection, a major human disease characterized by a diffused hepatic necroinflammation with scarring fibrotic reaction, which can progress toward cirrhosis and cancer. Ex vivo frequency and cytokine production were determined in circulating and intrahepatic invNKT cells from controls (healthy subjects or patients with nonviral benign or malignant focal liver damage and minimal inflammatory response) or chronic viral hepatitis patients without cirrhosis, with cirrhosis, or with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. invNKT cells increase in chronically infected livers and undergo a substantial modification in their effector functions, consisting in the production of the type 2 profibrotic IL-4 and IL-13 cytokines, which characterizes the progression of hepatic fibrosis to cirrhosis. CD1d, nearly undetectable in noncirrhotic and control livers, is strongly expressed by ...Continue Reading

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