Impairment of T cell development and acute inflammatory response in HIV-1 Tat transgenic mice

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العنوان: Impairment of T cell development and acute inflammatory response in HIV-1 Tat transgenic mice
المؤلفون: Giancarlo Troncone, F. Tuccillo, Massimo Mallardo, Simona Ceglia, Enrico Iaccino, Selena Mimmi, Franco M. Buonaguro, Giuseppe Palma, Antonio Pisano, Ileana Quinto, Valter Agosti, Cristina Falcone, Eleonora Vecchio, Marilena Pontoriero, Annarita Scialdone, Domenica Rea, Annalisa Rossi, Camillo Palmieri, Elisabetta Caiazzo, Annamaria de Laurentiis, Francesco Albano, Claudio Bellevicine, Claudio Arra, Giuseppe Scala, Carla Cicala, Chiara Mignogna, Giuseppe Fiume
المساهمون: Fiume, Giuseppe, Scialdone, Annarita, Albano, Francesco, Rossi, Annalisa, Tuccillo, Franca Maria, Rea, Domenica, Palmieri, Camillo, Caiazzo, Elisabetta, Cicala, Carla, Bellevicine, Claudio, Falcone, Cristina, Vecchio, Eleonora, Pisano, Antonio, Ceglia, Simona, Mimmi, Selena, Iaccino, Enrico, de Laurentiis, Annamaria, Pontoriero, Marilena, Agosti, Valter, Troncone, Giancarlo, Mignogna, Chiara, Palma, Giuseppe, Arra, Claudio, Mallardo, Massimo, Buonaguro, Franco Maria, Scala, Giuseppe, Quinto, Ileana
المصدر: Scientific Reports
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
سنة النشر: 2015
مصطلحات موضوعية: Lipopolysaccharides, Genetically modified mouse, Chemokine, T cell, Gene Expression, HIV Infections, Mice, Transgenic, Inflammation, Thymus Gland, Biology, Article, Lymphocyte Depletion, Proinflammatory cytokine, Mice, Immune system, T-Lymphocyte Subsets, medicine, Animals, Cluster Analysis, Lymphocyte Count, Lymphopoiesis, Thymocytes, Multidisciplinary, Gene Expression Profiling, NF-kappa B, Cell Differentiation, MicroRNAs, medicine.anatomical_structure, Immunology, HIV-1, biology.protein, Cytokines, tat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, medicine.symptom, CD8
الوصف: Immune activation and chronic inflammation are hallmark features of HIV infection causing T-cell depletion and cellular immune dysfunction in AIDS. Here, we addressed the issue whether HIV-1 Tat could affect T cell development and acute inflammatory response by generating a transgenic mouse expressing Tat in lymphoid tissue. Tat-Tg mice showed thymus atrophy and the maturation block from DN4 to DP thymic subpopulations, resulting in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells depletion in peripheral blood. In Tat-positive thymus, we observed the increased p65/NF-κB activity and deregulated expression of cytokines/chemokines and microRNA-181a-1, which are involved in T-lymphopoiesis. Upon LPS intraperitoneal injection, Tat-Tg mice developed an abnormal acute inflammatory response, which was characterized by enhanced lethality and production of inflammatory cytokines. Based on these findings, Tat-Tg mouse could represent an animal model for testing adjunctive therapies of HIV-1-associated inflammation and immune deregulation.
تدمد: 2045-2322
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d4ba847db1e2c43763f2f5153363225d
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13864
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....d4ba847db1e2c43763f2f5153363225d
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE