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    Insights into deregulated TNF and IL-10 production in malaria: implications for understanding severe malarial anaemia.

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    Boeuf, PS; Loizon, S; Awandare, GA; Tetteh, JKA; Addae, MM; Adjei, GO; Goka, B; Kurtzhals, JAL; Puijalon, O; Hviid, L; ...
    Date
    2012-08-01
    Source Title
    Malaria Journal
    Publisher
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Boeuf, Philippe
    Affiliation
    Medicine and Radiology
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    Journal Article
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    Boeuf, P. S., Loizon, S., Awandare, G. A., Tetteh, J. K. A., Addae, M. M., Adjei, G. O., Goka, B., Kurtzhals, J. A. L., Puijalon, O., Hviid, L., Akanmori, B. D. & Behr, C. (2012). Insights into deregulated TNF and IL-10 production in malaria: implications for understanding severe malarial anaemia.. Malar J, 11 (1), pp.253-. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-253.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/257109
    DOI
    10.1186/1475-2875-11-253
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469355
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    BACKGROUND: Severe malarial anaemia (SMA) is a major life-threatening complication of paediatric malaria. Protracted production of pro-inflammatory cytokines promoting erythrophagocytosis and depressing erythropoiesis is thought to play an important role in SMA, which is characterized by a high TNF/IL-10 ratio. Whether this TNF/IL-10 imbalance results from an intrinsic incapacity of SMA patients to produce IL-10 or from an IL-10 unresponsiveness to infection is unknown. Monocytes and T cells are recognized as the main sources of TNF and IL-10 in vivo, but little is known about the activation status of those cells in SMA patients. METHODS: The IL-10 and TNF production capacity and the activation phenotype of monocytes and T cells were compared in samples collected from 332 Ghanaian children with non-overlapping SMA (n = 108), cerebral malaria (CM) (n = 144) or uncomplicated malaria (UM) (n = 80) syndromes. Activation status of monocytes and T cells was ascertained by measuring HLA-DR+ and/or CD69+ surface expression by flow cytometry. The TNF and IL-10 production was assessed in a whole-blood assay after or not stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or phytohaemaglutinin (PHA) used as surrogate of unspecific monocyte and T cell stimulant. The number of circulating pigmented monocytes was also determined. RESULTS: Monocytes and T cells from SMA and CM patients showed similar activation profiles with a comparable decreased HLA-DR expression on monocytes and increased frequency of CD69+ and HLA-DR+ T cells. In contrast, the acute-phase IL-10 production was markedly decreased in SMA compared to CM (P = .003) and UM (P = .004). Although in SMA the IL-10 response to LPS-stimulation was larger in amplitude than in CM (P = .0082), the absolute levels of IL-10 reached were lower (P = .013). Both the amplitude and levels of TNF produced in response to LPS-stimulation were larger in SMA than CM (P = .019). In response to PHA-stimulation, absolute levels of IL-10 produced in SMA were lower than in CM (P = .005) contrasting with TNF levels, which were higher (P = .001). CONCLUSIONS: These data reveal that SMA patients have the potential to mount efficient IL-10 responses and that the TNF/IL-10 imbalance may reflect a specific monocyte and T cell programming/polarization pattern in response to infection.

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