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Title: | Chronic human infection with Trypanosoma cruzi drives CD4+ T cells to immune senescence | Authors: | Albareda, María Cecilia Olivera, Gabriela Carina Laucella, Susana A. Alvarez, María Gabriela Fernandez, Esteban Rodrigo Lococo, Bruno Viotti, Rodolfo Tarleton, Rick L Postan, Miriam |
Issue Date: | 15-Sep-2009 | Journal: | Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) | Abstract: | Previously we found that the frequency of IFN-gamma-producing CD8(+) T cells specific for Trypanosoma cruzi inversely correlates with disease severity in chronic human Chagas disease along with low levels of IL-2-secreting CD8(+) T cells in all clinical stages. This impairment of the parasite-specific T cell responses was associated with phenotypic features of immune senescence of the CD8(+) T cell compartment. These data prompted us to address the question of whether the CD4(+) T cell compartment also experiences signs of exhaustion. Thus, we performed a functional and phenotypical characterization of T. cruzi-specific and overall CD4(+) T cells in chronically infected subjects with different degrees of cardiac dysfunction. The results show an inverse association between disease severity and the frequency of T. cruzi-specific IFN-gamma-producing CD4(+) T cells. The high expression of CD27 and CD28 with a relative low expression of CD57 found on CD4(+)IFN-gamma(+) T cells suggests that the effector T cell pool in chronic T. cruzi infection includes a high proportion of newly recruited T cells, but a low frequency of long-term memory cells. The total CD4(+) T cell compartment shows signs of senescence and later stages of differentiation associated with more severe stages of the disease. These findings support the hypothesis that long-term T. cruzi infection in humans might exhaust long-lived memory T cells. |
URI: | http://sgc.anlis.gob.ar/handle/123456789/1485 | DOI: | 10.4049/jimmunol.0900852 |
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