Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Sepsis induces long-lasting impairments in CD4+ T-cell responses despite rapid numerical recovery of T-lymphocyte populations. |
| Authors: |
Ammer-Herrmenau, Christoph1, Kulkarni, Upasana1, Andreas, Nico1, Ungelenk, Martin2, Ravens, Sarina3, Hübner, Christian2, Kather, Angela1, Kurth, Ingo2,4, Bauer, Michael5,6, Kamradt, Thomas1 thomas.kamradt@med.uni-jena.de |
| Source: |
PLoS ONE. 2/7/2019, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p1-16. 16p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*SEPTICEMIA treatment, *CD4 antigen, *T cells, *IMMUNOSUPPRESSION, *ANTIGENS |
| Abstract: |
Massive apoptosis of lymphocytes is a hallmark of sepsis. The resulting immunosuppression is associated with secondary infections, which are often lethal. Moreover, sepsis-survivors are burdened with increased morbidity and mortality for several years after the sepsis episode. The duration and clinical consequences of sepsis induced-immunosuppression are currently unknown. We have used the mouse model of peritoneal contamination and infection (PCI) to investigate the quantitative and qualitative recovery of T lymphocytes for 3.5 months after sepsis with or without IL-7 treatment. Thymic output and the numbers of naive and effector/memory CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes quickly recovered after sepsis. IL-7 treatment resulted in an accelerated recovery of CD8+ lymphocytes. Next generation sequencing revealed no significant narrowing of the T cell receptor repertoire 3.5 months after sepsis. In contrast, detailed functional analyses of T helper (Th)-cell responses towards a fungal antigen revealed a significant loss of Th cells. Whereas cytokine production was not impaired at the single cell level, the absolute number of Th cells specific for the fungal antigen was reduced. Our data indicate a clinically relevant loss of pathogen-specific T cell clones after sepsis. Given the small number of naive T lymphocytes specific for a given antigen, this decrement of T cell clones remains undetected even by sensitive methods such as deep sequencing. Taken together, our data are compatible with long lasting impairments in CD4+ T-cell responses after sepsis despite rapid recovery of T lymphocyte populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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