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Toxoplasma gondii Profilin Induces Cytokine-mediated Acute Liver Injury through Kupffer Cells and NK Cells in D-Galactosamine-sensitized Mice
Jiang Qun ,Wei Haiming ,Sun Rui ,Tian Zhigang *
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences
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Funding: 高等学校博士学科点专项科研基金,国家自然科学基金,国家自然科学基金创新群体(No.20060358022,#30730084,#30721002)
Opened online: 1 February 2010
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Citation: Jiang Qun ,Wei Haiming ,Sun Rui .Toxoplasma gondii Profilin Induces Cytokine-mediated Acute Liver Injury through Kupffer Cells and NK Cells in D-Galactosamine-sensitized Mice[OL]. [ 1 February 2010] http://en.paper.edu.cn/en_releasepaper/content/39741
 
 
Accumulating evidence suggests that parasites is inflammatorily active in liver, but the molecular mechanism(s) through which parasites modulates the hepatic innate immune system has not been clearly elucidated. In this study, we found that Toxoplasma gondii profilin, a ligand of toll-like receptor 11 (TLR11), induced the fulminant hepatitis in D-GalN-sensitized mice. The levels of inflammatory cytokine TNFα, IFN-γ and IL-12 in the serum were significantly increased following administration of profilin and D-GalN. Neutralization of these cytokine completely abolished profilin/GalN-induced liver injury. Profilin/GalN treatment could induce recruitment and activation of Kupffer cells and NK cells in liver. TNFα and IFN-γ were produced by Kupffer cells and NK cells, respectively, in profilin/GalN treated mice. Moreover, depletion of Kuppfer cells or NK cells could protect mice from profilin/GalN-induced liver injury, suggesting that these innate immune cells were the major sources of those inflammatory cytokines. This is the first report to show TLR11-induced liver injury, which is helpful to study the liver diseases with parasite infection.
Keywords:Toll-like receptor 11;liver injury;Kupffer cells;NK cells;cytokines
 
 
 

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