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Cutting Edge: Regulatory T Cells Facilitate Cutaneous Wound Healing.


ABSTRACT: Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells (Tregs) reside in tissues where they control inflammation and mediate tissue-specific functions. The skin of mice and humans contain a large number of Tregs; however, the mechanisms of how these cells function in skin remain largely unknown. In this article, we show that Tregs facilitate cutaneous wound healing. Highly activated Tregs accumulated in skin early after wounding, and specific ablation of these cells resulted in delayed wound re-epithelialization and kinetics of wound closure. Tregs in wounded skin attenuated IFN-? production and proinflammatory macrophage accumulation. Upon wounding, Tregs induce expression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Lineage-specific deletion of EGFR in Tregs resulted in reduced Treg accumulation and activation in wounded skin, delayed wound closure, and increased proinflammatory macrophage accumulation. Taken together, our results reveal a novel role for Tregs in facilitating skin wound repair and suggest that they use the EGFR pathway to mediate these effects.

SUBMITTER: Nosbaum A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4761457 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cutting Edge: Regulatory T Cells Facilitate Cutaneous Wound Healing.

Nosbaum Audrey A   Prevel Nicolas N   Truong Hong-An HA   Mehta Pooja P   Ettinger Monika M   Scharschmidt Tiffany C TC   Ali Niwa H NH   Pauli Mariela L ML   Abbas Abul K AK   Rosenblum Michael D MD  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20160129 5


Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells (Tregs) reside in tissues where they control inflammation and mediate tissue-specific functions. The skin of mice and humans contain a large number of Tregs; however, the mechanisms of how these cells function in skin remain largely unknown. In this article, we show that Tregs facilitate cutaneous wound healing. Highly activated Tregs accumulated in skin early after wounding, and specific ablation of these cells resulted in delayed wound re-epithelialization a  ...[more]

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