Affiliation:
1. †Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; and
2. ‡Berlex Laboratories, Richmond, CA 94806
3. *Oncology and
Abstract
Abstract
IL-10, a cytokine with important anti-inflammatory properties, is generated within the CNS during neuroinflammation. The mechanism for its production is poorly understood. Since infiltrating lymphocytes come into close proximity with the macrophage-like cells of the CNS, the microglia, we have used an in vitro human microglia-T cell coculture system to address the mechanisms of IL-10 production. We demonstrate that microglia or activated T cells alone secrete negligible amounts of IL-10, but that their coculture results in significant IL-10 production, which was effected by both cell types. IL-10 generation was cell contact dependent, and treatment with anti-CD40, CTLA-4-Fc, or anti-CD23 decreased the IL-10 content in microglia-T cell cocultures. The combination of anti-CD40 and CTLA-4-Fc reduced IL-10 levels to the negligible amounts seen with T cells or microglia in isolation. By also measuring TNF-α levels, specificity of cytokine regulation was observed; while anti-CD40 and CTLA-4-Fc reduced IL-10 and TNF-α levels, anti-CD23 did not affect TNF-α while attenuating IL-10 generation. Anti-very late Ag-4, which decreased TNF-α levels, did not affect IL-10. These results implicate the CD40, B7, and CD23 pathways in IL-10 production following microglia-T cell encounter and have relevance to the regulation of an anti-inflammatory response within the CNS.
Publisher
The American Association of Immunologists
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy
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