Journal
INFLAMMATION RESEARCH
Volume 62, Issue 6, Pages 561-569Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00011-013-0608-1
Keywords
Airway; Cytokine; Immunity; Interleukin-22; Macrophage; Mucosa
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Funding
- Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation [20070421]
- Swedish Science Council [K2008-57X-09048-19-3]
- King Gustav V's and Queen Victoria's Freemason Research Fund
- Karolinska Institute
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Interleukin (IL)-22 is important for mucosal host defense. Whereas previous studies focus on lymphocytes as sources of IL-22, we determined whether IL-22 is produced by inflammatory cells in the lungs other than T-lymphocytes during the activation of the innate immune response. Inflammatory cells in the lungs of Balb/c mice were primed by endotoxin (LPS, 10 mu g) or peptidoglycan (PG, 40 mu g) intranasally (3 days). After CD3 + cell depletion, lung homogenates were re-stimulated 24 h with LPS (100 ng/ml), PG (10 mu g/ml), IL-23 (100 ng/ml) or vehicle. Human BAL macrophages were stimulated 24 h with PG (50 mu g/ml) and IL-23 (100 ng/ml) or vehicle. The release of IL-22 was measured with ELISA and intracellular IL-22 with immunostaining. For statistics, either Dunnett or Students t test method was employed (n = 3-8). Re-stimulation in vitro increased concentrations of mouse IL-22 protein irrespective of priming in vivo. A majority of macrophages in mouse lung and BAL samples displayed immunostaining for IL-22. In analogy, human BAL macrophages released IL-22 protein, and a third of these cells displayed immunostaining for IL-22. Alveolar macrophages can produce and release IL-22 during the activation of the innate immune response and thereby constitute a potentially important regulator of mucosal host defence in the lungs.
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