Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, signified by distinctive peripheral cytokines, chemokines and the TNF family members B-cell activating factor and a proliferation inducing ligand

OBJECTIVE: Serum cytokines play an important role in the pathogenesis of myositis by initiating and perpetuating various cellular and humoral autoimmune processes. The aim of the present study was to describe a broad spectrum of T- and B-cell cytokines, growth factors and chemokines in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) and healthy individuals.

METHODS: A protein array system, denoted as multiplex cytokine assay was utilized to measure simultaneously the levels of 24 circulating cytokines, including B-cell activating factor (BAFF) and a proliferation inducing ligand (APRIL) of patients with IIMs and healthy individuals. Additionally, correlational clustering and discriminant function analysis (DFA), two multivariate, supervised analysis methods were employed to identify a subset of biomarkers in order to describe potential functional interrelationships among these pathological cytokines.

RESULTS: Univariate analysis demonstrated that a complex set of immune and inflammatory modulating cytokines are significantly up-regulated in patients with IIMs relative to unaffected controls including IL-10, IL-13, IFN-α, epidermal growth factor (EGF), VEGF, fibroblast growth factor (FGF), CCL3 [macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP-1α)], CCL4 (MIP-1β) and CCL11 (eotaxin), whereas G-CSF was significantly reduced in IIM patients. Correlational clustering was able to discriminate between, and hence sub-classify patients with IIMs. DFA identified EGF, IFN-α, VEGF, CCL3 (MIP-1α) and IL-12p40, as analytes with the strongest discriminatory power among various myositis patients and controls.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that these factors modulate myositis pathology and help to identify differences between subsets of the disease.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 49(2010), 10 vom: 15. Okt., Seite 1867-77

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Szodoray, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Alex, Philip [VerfasserIn]
Knowlton, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Centola, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Dozmorov, Igor [VerfasserIn]
Csipo, Istvan [VerfasserIn]
Nagy, Annamaria T [VerfasserIn]
Constantin, Tamas [VerfasserIn]
Ponyi, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Nakken, Britt [VerfasserIn]
Danko, Katalin [VerfasserIn]

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B-Cell Activating Factor
Chemokines
Cytokines
Journal Article
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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Date Completed 06.05.2011

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/rheumatology/keq151

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NLM19923390X