Huang Fei, Qiao Hong-Mei, Yin Jia-Ning, Gao Yang, Ju Yang-Hua, Li Ya-Nan
Department of Orthopedics, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, PR China.
Department of Pediatrics, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, PR China.
PLoS One. 2015 Nov 13;10(11):e0141717. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141717. eCollection 2015.
Low Clostridium leptum levels are a risk factor for the development of asthma. C. leptum deficiency exacerbates asthma; however, the impact of early-life C. leptum exposure on cesarean-delivered mice remains unclear. This study is to determine the effects of early-life C. leptum exposure on asthma development in infant mice.
We exposed infant mice to C. leptum (fed-CL) and then induced asthma using the allergen ovalbumin (OVA).
Fed-CL increased regulatory T (Treg) cells in cesarean-delivered mice compared with vaginally delivered mice. Compared with OVA-exposed mice, mice exposed to C. leptum + OVA did not develop the typical asthma phenotype, which includes airway hyper-responsiveness, cell infiltration, and T helper cell subset (Th1, Th2, Th9, Th17) inflammation. Early-life C. leptum exposure induced an immunosuppressive environment in the lung concurrent with increased Treg cells, resulting in the inhibition of Th1, Th2, Th9, and Th17 cell responses.
These findings demonstrate a mechanism whereby C. leptum exposure modulates adaptive immunity and leads to failure to develop asthma upon OVA sensitization later in life.
梭状芽孢杆菌水平低是哮喘发病的一个风险因素。梭状芽孢杆菌缺乏会加重哮喘;然而,生命早期接触梭状芽孢杆菌对剖宫产小鼠的影响仍不清楚。本研究旨在确定生命早期接触梭状芽孢杆菌对幼鼠哮喘发展的影响。
我们将幼鼠暴露于梭状芽孢杆菌(喂食梭状芽孢杆菌组),然后用过敏原卵清蛋白(OVA)诱导哮喘。
与经阴道分娩的小鼠相比,喂食梭状芽孢杆菌组增加了剖宫产小鼠体内的调节性T(Treg)细胞。与暴露于OVA的小鼠相比,暴露于梭状芽孢杆菌+OVA的小鼠未出现典型的哮喘表型,包括气道高反应性、细胞浸润和辅助性T细胞亚群(Th1、Th2、Th9、Th17)炎症。生命早期接触梭状芽孢杆菌会在肺部诱导免疫抑制环境,同时Treg细胞增加,从而抑制Th1、Th2、Th9和Th17细胞反应。
这些发现证明了一种机制,即接触梭状芽孢杆菌可调节适应性免疫,并导致在生命后期OVA致敏时无法发生哮喘。