Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2021 Apr 23;16(4):e0250521. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250521. eCollection 2021.
We previously demonstrated that the percentage of blood eosinophils that are associated with platelets and thus positive for CD41 (integrin αIIb-subunit) correlates with and predicts peak eosinophil count (PEC) in biopsies of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) patients after treatment. Thus, flow cytometric determination of CD41+ eosinophils is a potential measure of EoE disease activity. Determinants of association of platelets with eosinophils and other leukocytes in EoE are largely unknown. The objectives of this study were to test the hypotheses that platelets associate with blood leukocytes other than eosinophils in EoE and that such associations also predict EoE activity. Whole blood flow cytometry was performed on samples from 25 subjects before and after two months of standard of care EoE treatment. CD41 positivity of cells within gates for eosinophils, neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, and natural killer cells was compared. We found that percent CD41+ neutrophils, monocytes, and eosinophils correlated with one another such that principal component analysis of the five cell types identified "myeloid" and "lymphoid" factors. Percent CD41+ neutrophils or monocytes, or the myeloid factor, like CD41+ eosinophils, correlated with PEC after treatment, and CD41+ neutrophils or the myeloid factor predicted PEC < 6/high power field after treatment, albeit with lower area under the curve than for CD41+ eosinophils. We conclude that the processes driving platelets to associate with eosinophils in EoE also drive association of platelets with neutrophils and monocytes and that association of platelets with all three cell types is related to disease activity. Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT02775045.
我们之前已经证实,与血小板结合并因此对 CD41(整合素 αIIb 亚基)呈阳性的血嗜酸性粒细胞的百分比与嗜酸细胞性食管炎 (EoE) 患者治疗后活检中的嗜酸性粒细胞峰值计数 (PEC) 相关,并可预测 PEC。因此,流式细胞术测定 CD41+嗜酸性粒细胞是 EoE 疾病活动的潜在指标。EoE 中血小板与嗜酸性粒细胞和其他白细胞结合的决定因素在很大程度上尚不清楚。本研究的目的是检验以下两个假设:EoE 中血小板与除嗜酸性粒细胞以外的血液白细胞结合,并且这种结合也可以预测 EoE 活性。对 25 名接受标准 EoE 治疗前后的患者样本进行全血流式细胞术检测。比较嗜酸性粒细胞、中性粒细胞、单核细胞、淋巴细胞和自然杀伤细胞门内细胞的 CD41 阳性率。我们发现,CD41+中性粒细胞、单核细胞和嗜酸性粒细胞彼此之间存在相关性,因此,五种细胞类型的主成分分析确定了“髓样”和“淋巴样”因素。治疗后,CD41+中性粒细胞或单核细胞或髓样因子与 PEC 相关,CD41+中性粒细胞或髓样因子预测治疗后 PEC<6/高倍视野,但曲线下面积低于 CD41+嗜酸性粒细胞。我们得出结论,导致血小板与 EoE 中的嗜酸性粒细胞结合的过程也导致血小板与中性粒细胞和单核细胞结合,并且血小板与这三种细胞类型的结合与疾病活性有关。临床试验编号:NCT02775045。