期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 62, 期 3, 页码 165-173出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2009.00726.x
关键词
Estrogen; hCG; pregnancy; progesterone
资金
- DFG Klinische Forschergruppe [124/2-3, RE1631/1-3]
Problem During pregnancy, the immune and the endocrine system cooperate to ensure that the fetal allograft develops without eliciting a maternal immune response. This is presumably in part achieved by dendritic cells (DCs) that play a dominant role in maintaining peripheral tolerance. In this Study, we investigated whether female sex hormones, such as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), progesterone (Prog), and estradiol (E2), which are highly elevated during pregnancy, induce the differentiation of DCs into a tolerance-inducing phenotype. Methods/Results Immature DCs were generated from blood-derived monocytes and differentiated in the presence Of hCG, Prog, E2, or Dexamethasone (Dex) as a control. Unlike Dex, female sex hormones did not prevent the Upregulation Of Surface markers characteristic for mature DCs, Such as CD40, CD83, and CD86, except for hCG, which inhibited HLA-DR expression. Similarly, hCG, Prog, and E2 had any impact oil neither the rearrangement of the F-actin cytoskeleton nor the enhanced chemokine secretion following DC maturation, both of which were strongly altered by Dex. Nevertheless, the T-cell stimulatory capacity of DCs was significantly reduced after hCG and E2 exposure. Conclusion Our findings suggest that the female sex hormones hCG and E2 inhibit the T-cell stimulatory capacity of DCs, which may help in preventing all allogenic T-cell response against the embryo.
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