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András Zóka1, Gábor Barna, Anikó Somogyi

  • 12nd Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University , Budapest , Hungary .

Autoimmunity
|December 20, 2014
PubMed

Regulatory T-cells (Treg) have a crucial role in limiting physiologic autoreactivity. Foxp3 is a master regulator transcription factor of Treg differentiation and active Treg cells express high levels of IL-2 receptor α-chain (CD25). The aim of our study was to assess the key markers of Treg cell function in type 1 diabetic (T1DM) and control subjects by flow cytometry. The proportion of CD25(-/low) cells among CD4(+)Foxp3(+) Treg cells was higher in T1DM patients that might suggest a shifted proportion of the incomplete/reserve and the fully active (CD4(+)Foxp3(+)CD25(+)) Treg cell subpopulations in T1DM, similarly to other Th1-mediated autoimmune diseases. In addition to the decreased expression of CD25 and CTLA-4 in T1DM patients, a positive correlation was observed between the CD25 expression on CD4(+) and the CTLA-4 expression in CD8(-) T-lymphocytes both in the T1DM and in the healthy control group. Our results suggest an impaired balance of CD25(+) and CD25(-/low) Treg cells in T1DM which might reflect a decreased late phase peripheral Treg activation even in patients with a mean disease duration of more than a decade.

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