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Anti-CTLA-4 antibod...
Anti-CTLA-4 antibody treatment triggers determinant spreading and enhances murine myasthenia gravis
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Wang, HB (author)
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Shi, FD (author)
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Li, HL (author)
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- Chambers, BJ (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Link, H (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Ljunggren, HG (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- The American Association of Immunologists, 2001
- 2001
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In: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). - : The American Association of Immunologists. - 0022-1767 .- 1550-6606. ; 166:10, s. 6430-6436
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- CTLA-4 appears to be a negative regulator of T cell activation and is implicated in T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. Experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG), induced by immunization of C57BL/6 mice with acetylcholine receptor (AChR) in adjuvant, is an autoantibody-mediated disease model for human myasthenia gravis (MG). The production of anti-AChR Abs in MG and EAMG is T cell dependent. In the present study, we demonstrate that anti-CTLA-4 Ab treatment enhances T cell responses to AChR, increases anti-AChR Ab production, and provokes a rapid onset and severe EAMG. To address possible mechanisms underlying the enhanced autoreactive T cell responses after anti-CTLA-4 Ab treatment, mice were immunized with the immunodominant peptide α146–162 representing an extracellular sequence of the AChR. Anti-CTLA-4 Ab, but not control Ab, treatment subsequent to peptide immunization results in clinical EAMG with diversification of the autoantibody repertoire as well as enhanced T cell proliferation against not only the immunizing α146–162 peptide, but also against other subdominant epitopes. Thus, treatment with anti-CTLA-4 Ab appears to induce determinant spreading, diversify the autoantibody repertoire, and enhance B cell-mediated autoimmune disease in this murine model of MG.
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