Affiliation:
1. Unit of Diabetes and Coeliac Disease
2. Department of Clinical Sciences/Paediatrics, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
3. RH Williams Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
4. Cellular Autoimmunity Unit, University Hospital MAS
Abstract
Summary
Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) autoantibodies decline after gluten-free diet in patients with coeliac disease. We tested the hypothesis that gluten-free diet-induced change in tTG autoantibody levels affects subsets of peripheral blood lymphocytes. Peripheral blood was obtained from 20 children with biopsy-proven active coeliac disease. Gluten-free diet was initiated and the children examined again after three and six months. tTG autoantibodies were measured in radioligand binding assays and lymphocyte subsets by flow cytometry. IgA-tTG levels at diagnosis, 2204 U/ml (median, range 113–24990), were reduced over six months to 76 U/ml (median, range 1–1261) (P < 0·001). At six months, 12/20 (60%) children had reduced their IgA-tTG levels to < 100 U/ml and these children showed a decrease in B cells (mean change −3·8%, P = 0·014), CD4+ T cells (mean −4·32%, P = 0·011) and CD4+ T cells expressing CD25high (mean change −0·62%, P = 0·036). In contrast, the CD4+CD25highCCR4+ T cell population increased during the same period (mean change 11·5%, P = 0·0036). The decline in IgA-tTG levels correlated to the decrease in B cells (r = 0·56, P = 0·01), CD4+ T cells (r = 0·66, P = 0·004) as well as CD4+CD25high T cells (r = 0·59, P = 0·01). A negative correlation was found between the decline in IgA-tTG and CD4+CD25high T cells expressing CD45RO (r = –0·49, P = 0·03) and CCR4 (r = –0·54, P = 0·01). This is the first observational study on the effect of gluten-free diet on concurrent changes of tTG autoantibodies and specific peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets. Our data suggest that flow cytometry may be a useful complement to tTG autoantibodies when studying the effects of gluten-free diet in children with coeliac disease.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy
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26 articles.
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