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Maternal microchimerism in muscle biopsies from children with juvenile dermatomyositis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Recent advances in molecular techniques have revealed that there is bi-directional transfer of cells between mother and child during pregnancy, and the presence of a mother's cells in her child has been termed maternal microchimerism (MMc). There is the potential for maternal cells to provoke inappropriate immune responses in the child, which could be a factor in autoimmunity including JDM. The aim of this study was to determine whether maternal (female) cells could be detected in frozen muscle sections from seven males (age range 3-13 years) with JDM participating in the Juvenile Dermatomyositis National (U.K. and Ireland) Cohort Biomarker Study and Repository for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies and sections of muscle controls (age range 2-12 years).

Methods

At least 1000 cells from each section underwent FISH and confocal imaging through each nucleus. Concomitant IF for CD45 was used to determine whether MMc in muscle were lymphocytes. A non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-test was used to detect statistical differences.

Results

The frequency of MMc was higher in JDM muscle (0.42-1.14%) than in controls (0.08-0.42%) P?=?0.01. No CD45+ MMc were observed.

Conclusion

These data confirm an increased frequency of MMc in JDM. More detailed characterization of MMc is required, particularly using phenotypic markers, to explain the role of these cells in JDM.

SUBMITTER: Ye Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3354676 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Maternal microchimerism in muscle biopsies from children with juvenile dermatomyositis.

Ye Yi Y van Zyl Berendine B Varsani Hemlata H Wedderburn Lucy R LR Ramanan Athimalaipet A Gillespie Kathleen M KM

Rheumatology (Oxford, England) 20120123 6

<h4>Objective</h4>Recent advances in molecular techniques have revealed that there is bi-directional transfer of cells between mother and child during pregnancy, and the presence of a mother's cells in her child has been termed maternal microchimerism (MMc). There is the potential for maternal cells to provoke inappropriate immune responses in the child, which could be a factor in autoimmunity including JDM. The aim of this study was to determine whether maternal (female) cells could be detected ...[more]

PMID: 22271755

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Project description:Background :To evaluate the impact of the duration of chronic inflammation on gene expression in skeletal muscle biopsies (MBx) from untreated children with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) and identify genes and biological processes associated with the disease progression, expression profiling data from 16 girls with active symptoms of JDM greater or equal to 2 months were compared with 3 girls with active symptoms less than 2 months. Results: Seventy-nine genes were differentially expressed between the groups with long or short duration of untreated disease. Genes involved in immune responses and vasculature remodeling were expressed at a higher level in muscle biopsies from children with greater or equal to 2 months of symptoms, while genes involved in stress responses and protein turnover were expressed at a lower level. Among the 79 genes, expression of 9 genes showed a significant linear regression relationship with the duration of untreated disease. Five differentially expressed genes--HLA-DQA1, smooth muscle myosin heavy chain, clustering, plexin D1 and tenomodulin--were verified by quantitative RT-PCR. The chronic inflammation of longer disease duration was also associated with increased DC-LAMP+ and BDCA2+ mature dendritic cells, identified by immunohistochemistry. Conclusions: We conclude that chronic inflammation alters the gene expression patterns in muscle of untreated children with JDM. Symptoms lasting greater or equal to 2 months were associated with dendritic cell maturation and anti-angiogenic vascular remodelling, directly contributing to disease pathophysiology. Experiment Overall Design: After obtaining informed consent, 23 girls with definite JDM were enrolled in this study prior to obtaining the MRI directed diagnostic muscle biopsy. All 23 JDM samples and 4 healthy age- and sex-matched controls were expression profiled and for first gene filtering. Only profiling data from untreated patients (19 profiles) were then analyzed statistically. Experiment Overall Design: disease duration : less than 2 months: YJD-JDM-2UA-s2,YJD-JDM-1UA-s2,YJD-JDM-16UA-s2 Experiment Overall Design: disease duration : more than 2 months:YJD-JDM-30UA-s2,YJD-JDM-19UA-s2,YJD-JDM-5UA-s2,YJD-JDM-21UA-s2,YJD-JDM-18UA-s2,YJD-JDM-3UA-s2,YJD-JDM-23UA-s2,YJD-JDM-9UA-S2,YJD-JDM-12UA-s2,YJD-JDM-14UA-s2,YJD-JDM-25UA-s2,YJD-JDM-8UA-s2,YJD-JDM-15UA-s2,YJD-JDM-13UA-s2,YJD-JDM-10UA-S2,YJD-JDM-6UA-s2.

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Maternal microchimerism in muscle biopsies from children with juvenile dermatomyositis.

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Maternal microchimerism in muscle biopsies from children with juvenile dermatomyositis.

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