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Innate lymphoid cells mediate influenza-induced airway hyper-reactivity independently of adaptive immunity.


ABSTRACT: Patients with asthma, a major public health problem, are at high risk for serious disease from influenza virus infection, but the pathogenic mechanisms by which influenza A causes airway disease and asthma are not fully known. We show here in a mouse model that influenza infection acutely induced airway hyper-reactivity (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma, independently of T helper type 2 (T(H)2) cells and adaptive immunity. Instead, influenza infection induced AHR through a previously unknown pathway that required the interleukin 13 (IL-13)-IL-33 axis and cells of the non-T cell, non-B cell innate lymphoid type called 'natural helper cells'. Infection with influenza A virus, which activates the NLRP3 inflammasome, resulted in much more production of IL-33 by alveolar macrophages, which in turn activated natural helper cells producing substantial IL-13.

SUBMITTER: Chang YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3417123 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Innate lymphoid cells mediate influenza-induced airway hyper-reactivity independently of adaptive immunity.

Chang Ya-Jen YJ   Kim Hye Young HY   Albacker Lee A LA   Baumgarth Nicole N   McKenzie Andrew N J AN   Smith Dirk E DE   Dekruyff Rosemarie H RH   Umetsu Dale T DT  

Nature immunology 20110529 7


Patients with asthma, a major public health problem, are at high risk for serious disease from influenza virus infection, but the pathogenic mechanisms by which influenza A causes airway disease and asthma are not fully known. We show here in a mouse model that influenza infection acutely induced airway hyper-reactivity (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma, independently of T helper type 2 (T(H)2) cells and adaptive immunity. Instead, influenza infection induced AHR through a previously unknown p  ...[more]

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