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The Journal of Immunology, 2006, 176: 225-236.
Copyright © 2006 by The American Association of Immunologists

Enhanced Regulatory T Cell Activity Is an Element of the Host Response to Injury1

Niamh Ni Choileain, Malcolm MacConmara, Yan Zang, Thomas J. Murphy, John A. Mannick and James A. Lederer2

Department of Surgery (Immunology), Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115

CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a critical role in suppressing the development of autoimmune disease, in controlling potentially harmful inflammatory responses, and in maintaining immune homeostasis. Because severe injury triggers both excessive inflammation and suppressed adaptive immunity, we wished to test whether injury could influence Treg activity. Using a mouse burn injury model, we demonstrate that injury significantly enhances Treg function. This increase in Treg activity is apparent at 7 days after injury and is restricted to lymph node CD4+CD25+ T cells draining the injury site. Moreover, we show that this injury-induced increase in Treg activity is cell-contact dependent and is mediated in part by increased cell surface TGF-{beta}1 expression. To test the in vivo significance of these findings, mice were depleted of CD4+CD25+ T cells before sham or burn injury and then were immunized to follow the development of T cell-dependent Ag-specific immune reactivity. We observed that injured mice, which normally demonstrate suppressed Th1-type immunity, showed normal Th1 responses when depleted of CD4+CD25+ T cells. Taken together, these observations suggest that injury can induce or amplify CD4+CD25+ Treg function and that CD4+CD25+ T cells contribute to the development of postinjury immune suppression.


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