PMID: 20120705Feb 4, 2010Paper

The assessment of T regulatory cells in the peripheral blood of children with metabolic syndrome

Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
Włodzimierz ŁuczyńskiPrzemysław Rećko

Abstract

The metabolic syndrome is defined as the co-existence of risk factors for the development of cardio-vascular disease: obesity, hypertension, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. For a few years there has been a growing interest in immune-inflammatory aspects of obesity and metabolic syndrome. According to many authors the disturbances in the number and(or) function of T regulatory cells are responsible for autoimmune diseases. It is possible that they play a role in a pathogenesis of chronic inflammation accompanying obesity. THE AIM OF THE STUDY was to determine the percentages of T regulatory cells in children with metabolic syndrome. Fourty seven children with metabolic syndrome were prospectively enrolled into the study according to the IDF criteria (central obesity and two of: hypertension, hypertriglycerydemia, low HDL, hyperglycemia/glucose intolerance/diabetes). With the use of five-colour flow cytometry the following percentages of T cells in the peripheral blood were assessed: CD4(+), CD4(+)CD25(high), CD4(+)CD25(high)FoxP3(+), CD4(+)CD25(high)CD127(low), CD4(+)CD25(high)FoxP3(+)CD127(low). In the group of children with metabolic syndrome we noted lower percentages of CD4(+)CD25(high) cells compared to control childre...Continue Reading

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