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Collagen-induced arthritis in Dark Agouti rats as a model for study of immunological sexual dimorphisms in the human disease

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2018
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Dimitrijević, Mirjana
Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena
Bufan, Biljana
Nacka-Aleksić, Mirjana
Lazarević-Macanović, Mirjana
Milovanović, Petar
Durić, Marija
Sopta, Jelena
Leposavić, Gordana
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Abstract
Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is a frequently used animal model of rheumatoid arthritis, human autoimmune disease that exhibits clear sex bias in incidence and clinical course. Female Dark Agouti rats immunized for CIA showed also greater incidence and higher arthritic score than their male counterparts. The study investigated sex differences in mechanisms controlling the primary immune responses in draining lymph nodes (dLNs), as a factor contributing to this dimorphism. The higher frequencies of CD4 + CD25 + Foxp3- cells, presumably activated effector T (Teff) cells, and IL-17+, IFN-gamma + and IL-17 + IFN-gamma + T cells were found in female compared with male rat dLNs. However, the frequency of CD4 + CD25 + Foxp3 + T regulatory cells (Treg) did not differ between sexes. Thus, CD4 + Teff cells/Treg ratio, and IL-17 + T cells/Treg and IFN-gamma + T cells/Treg ratios were higher in female than in male rats, and among them was found lower frequency of PD-1+ cells. This suggested les...s efficient control of (auto)immune Th1/Th17 cell responses in female rat dLNs. On the contrary, the frequency of IL-4 + T cells was lower in female than in male rat dLNs. Consistently, the ratio of serum levels of collagen-specific IgG2a (IFN-gamma-dependent, with an important pathogenic role in CIA) and IgG1 (IL-4-dependent) was shifted towards IgG2a in female compared with male rats. As a whole, the study suggests that sexual dimorphism in the control of T cell activation/polarization could contribute to sex bias in the susceptibility to CIA. Moreover, the study advises the use of animals of both sexes in the preclinical testing of new drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.

Keywords:
CIA / Sexual dimorphism / DA rat strain / IL-17+T cells / IFN-gamma plus T cells / T regulatory cells
Source:
Experimental and Molecular Pathology, 2018, 105, 1, 10-22
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  • Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego
Projects:
  • Immune system plasticity during aging: Immunomodulatory capacity of oestrogens (RS-175050)

DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2018.05.007

ISSN: 0014-4800

PubMed: 29792851

WoS: 000440958500002

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85047529894
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