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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 1 462-472, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Activation of drug-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in individuals allergic to sulfonamides, phenytoin, and carbamazepine

D Mauri-Hellweg, F Bettens, D Mauri, C Brander, T Hunziker and WJ Pichler
Institute of Immunology and Allergology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.

To investigate how T cells are involved in hypersensitivity reactions to drugs that become immunogenic after metabolization, e.g., sulfonamides and antiepileptics, we analyzed in vitro the drug-induced activation of CD4+ and CD8+ T cell subsets, cytokine secretion, TCR V beta distribution, and proliferation of T cells from four drug-allergic individuals. In addition, the activation parameters CD25 and HLA-DR were analyzed in vivo on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from five patients with acute drug allergies, some of them with anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome with hepatitis. Our results show that, in vitro, drug-induced proliferation of PBMC from patients with allergy to sulfamethoxazole, phenytoin, or carbamazepine was specific and dose dependent. CD4+ as well as CD8+ T cells expressed elevated levels of CD25 and HLA-DR molecules after drug stimulation. Drug-activated lymphocytes secreted high amounts of IL-5 and normal or low levels of IL-2, IFN-gamma, IL-4, and TNF-alpha. An enhanced expansion of TCR V beta 17+ T cells 9 days after in vitro stimulation with sulfamethoxazole was observed in one patient with sulfamethoxazole allergy. The drug specificity of the in vitro-activated T cells was confirmed by generation of different sulfamethoxazole specific T cell lines and CD4+ and CD8+ T cell clones. T cell analysis of patients with acute drug allergy to carbamazepine, phenytoin, allopurinol, or paracetamol confirms the in vitro data, because all patients had activated CD4+ or CD8+ T cells in the circulation. Our data clearly show the involvement of drug-specific T cells in drug allergies.


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