Karkout Rami, Gaudreault Véronique, Labrie Lydia, Aldossary Haya, Azalde Garcia Noelia, Shan Jichuan, Fixman Elizabeth D
Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Clin Exp Immunol. 2024 Mar 12;216(1):13-24. doi: 10.1093/cei/uxad100.
A sex disparity in asthma prevalence and severity exists in humans. Multiple studies have highlighted the role of innate cells in shaping the adaptive immune system in chronic asthma. To explore the sex bias in the eosinophilic response, we delivered IL-33 to the lungs of mice and delineated the kinetics by which the inflammatory response was induced. Our data demonstrate that females recruited more eosinophils capable of responding to IL-33. Eosinophil activation occurred selectively in the lung tissue and was enhanced in females at all time points. This increase was associated with increased ex vivo type 2 cytokine and chemokine production and female-specific expansion of group 2 innate lymphoid cells lacking expression of the killer-cell lectin-like receptor G1. Our findings suggest that the enhanced eosinophilic response in females is due, firstly, to a greater proportion of eosinophils recruited to the lungs in females that can respond to IL-33; and secondly, to an enhanced production of type 2 cytokines in females. Our data provide insight into the mechanisms that guide the female-specific enhancement of eosinophil activation in the mouse and form the basis to characterize these responses in human asthmatics.
在人类中,哮喘的患病率和严重程度存在性别差异。多项研究强调了固有细胞在慢性哮喘适应性免疫系统形成中的作用。为了探究嗜酸性粒细胞反应中的性别偏差,我们将白细胞介素-33注入小鼠肺部,并描绘了诱导炎症反应的动力学过程。我们的数据表明,雌性小鼠招募了更多能够对白细胞介素-33作出反应的嗜酸性粒细胞。嗜酸性粒细胞的激活选择性地发生在肺组织中,并且在所有时间点雌性小鼠中均增强。这种增加与体外2型细胞因子和趋化因子的产生增加以及缺乏杀伤细胞凝集素样受体G1表达的2型固有淋巴细胞的雌性特异性扩增有关。我们的研究结果表明,雌性小鼠嗜酸性粒细胞反应增强的原因,首先是雌性小鼠肺部招募的能对白细胞介素-33作出反应的嗜酸性粒细胞比例更高;其次是雌性小鼠中2型细胞因子的产生增加。我们的数据为指导小鼠嗜酸性粒细胞激活的雌性特异性增强的机制提供了见解,并为在人类哮喘患者中表征这些反应奠定了基础。
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