Change in the blood cytokine spectrum in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis

AIM: To assess cytokine spectrum changes in different types of pulmonary sarcoidosis (PS).

SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Twenty-seven PS patients without signs of pulmonary fibrosis and 14 patients with sarcoidosis complicated by pulmonary fibrosis were examined. Baseline serum Th1 and Th2 cytokine concentrations were studied. A control group comprised 30 healthy donors.

RESULTS: A higher interleukin (IL)-4/IL-2 ratio was found in the peripheral blood of the patients with pulmonary fibrosis-complicated sarcoidosis than in the other patients (326.4 +/- 122.6 and 88.2 +/- 28.6%, respectively; p = 0.002). The sarcoidosis patients with signs of pulmonary fibrosis and no symptoms of disease inflammatory activity had elevated blood IL-1 levels whereas an IL-1 receptor antagonist was decreased.

CONCLUSION: In the patients with PS, the development and progression of pulmonary fibrosis occur with a shift in the Th1/Th2 balance towards Th2, which manifests itself as a higher IL-4/IL-2 ratio in the peripheral blood. At the same time, the signs of systemic inflammatory activity remain.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

2013

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:85

Enthalten in:

Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 85(2013), 3 vom: 16., Seite 23-7

Sprache:

Russisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Terpigorev, S A [VerfasserIn]
Novikov, A A [VerfasserIn]
El-Zein, B A [VerfasserIn]
Aleksandrova, E H [VerfasserIn]
Iazdovskiĭ, V V [VerfasserIn]
Moskalets, O V [VerfasserIn]
Paleev, F N [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

207137-56-2
Comparative Study
Cytokines
English Abstract
Inflammation Mediators
Interleukin-2
Interleukin-4
Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.06.2013

Date Revised 30.05.2013

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM22791354X