Effect of Ozone on Allergic Airway Inflammation

Author:

Arjomandi MehrdadORCID,Wong Hofer,Tenney Rachel,Holland Nina,Balmes John R.

Abstract

ABSTRACTBackgroundExposure to O3 has been associated with increased risk of exacerbations of asthma, but the underlying mechanisms are not well studied. We hypothesized that O3 exposure would enhance airway inflammatory responses to allergen and the GSTM1 null genotype would modulate this enhancement.ProceduresIn a cross-over design, 10 asthmatic subjects (50% with GSTM1 null genotype) who had specific sensitization to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (DP) were exposed to 160 ppb O3 or filtered air (FA) control for 4 h with intermittent exercise on two separate days at least three weeks apart. 20 h post-exposure, endobronchial challenge with DP allergen, and sham normal saline (NS) instillation, were performed in two separate lung lobes. Six h later, a second bronchoscopy was performed to collect bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from the DP- and NS-challenged lobes for analyses of cellular and biochemical markers of inflammation. Multiple variable regression was used to compare cell and cytokine responses across the four exposure groups (FA-NS, O3-NS, FA-DP, O3-DP). Effect modification by GSTM1 genotype was assessed in stratified regressions.Main FindingsBAL eosinophil and lymphocyte counts were increased in segments challenged with DP compared to segments that received sham challenges (p<0.01). DP challenge compared to sham challenge also caused a significant increase in BAL concentrations of the Th2 cytokines IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, and IL-13 (p<0.03 for all comparisons). O3 exposure did not significantly affect BAL cells or cytokine levels although BAL neutrophil count with DP challenge was non-significantly higher after O3 compared to after FA exposure (p<0.11). Compared to GSTM1-present subjects, GSTM1-null subjects had significantly reduced inflammatory responses including lower eosinophil (p<0.041) and IL-4 (p<0.014) responses to DP challenge after O3 exposure.ConclusionsO3 appears to have mixed effects on allergen-induced airway inflammation. While O3 did not cause a clear differential effect on airway cellular or cytokine responses to allergen challenge, those responses did appear to be modulated by the antioxidant enzyme, GSTM1, as evident by the attenuation of airway inflammatory responses to allergen after O3 exposure in the absence of the gene.HIGHLIGHTSOzone may increase risk of asthma exacerbation but the exact mechanisms are not clear.Susceptibility to ozone-induced airway inflammation may be associated with GSTM1 genotype.Ozone may enhance allergen-induced airway recruitment of neutrophils.The GSTM1 null mutation may decrease both eosinophil and cytokine allergic airway responses after O3 exposure.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Reference37 articles.

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