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Blood hormones and torque teno virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells
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- Brundin, Peik M.A. (author)
- Umeå universitet,Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS),Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi,Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; S:t Görans Hospital, Dept of Medicine, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Stockholm, Sweden
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Landgren, Britt-Marie (author)
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- Fjällström, Peter (author)
- Umeå universitet,Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS),Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi
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- Johansson, Anders F., 1966- (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi,Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS)
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- Nalvarte, Ivan (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Elsevier, 2020
- 2020
- English.
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In: Heliyon. - : Elsevier. - 2405-8440. ; 6:11
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Abstract
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- Men and women respond differently to infectious diseases. Women show less morbidity and mortality, partially due to the differences in sex hormone levels which can influence the immune response. Torque teno virus (TTV) is non-pathogenic and ubiquitously present in serum from a large proportion (up to 90%) of adult humans with virus levels correlating with the status of the host immune response. The source of TTV replication is unknown, but T-lymphocytes have been proposed. In this study we investigated the presence and levels of TTV in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in premenopausal (pre-MP) women, post-menopausal (post-MP) women, and men, and determined their serum sex hormone levels. Of the examined subjects (n = 27), we found presence of TTV in PMBC from 17.6% pre-MP (n = 17), 25.0% post-MP (n = 4) and 50.0% men (n = 6). The levels of TTV/μg DNA were lower among TTV-positive men and post-MP women compared to pre-MP women. All the positive pre-MP women were either anovulatory, hypothyroid, or both. In addition, the TTV-positive pre-MP women had significantly lower progesterone levels compared to TTV-negative pre-MP women. Although our study was performed on a limited number of subjects, the data suggests that TTV in PBMC is associated with an anovulatory menstrual cycle with low progesterone levels, and possibly with male sex.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Infektionsmedicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Infectious Medicine (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Mikrobiologi inom det medicinska området (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Microbiology in the medical area (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Immunologi inom det medicinska området (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Immunology in the medical area (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Endokrinologi och diabetes (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Endocrinology and Diabetes (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Reproduktionsmedicin och gynekologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Aging
- Anovulatory
- Commensal viruses
- Estrogen
- Hematology
- Hypothyroidism
- Immune response
- Immunity
- Immunodeficiency
- Immunology
- Infection
- Infectious disease
- Menstrual cycle
- Microbiome
- Reproductive hormone
- Sex difference
- Sex hormones
- Steroid hormones
- Viruses
- medicinsk virologi
- Medical Virology
- Medicine
- medicin
- immunologi
- Immunology
- mikrobiologi
- Microbiology
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