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Pathogenic role of endogenous TNF-α in the development of Sjogren's-like sialadenitis and secretory dysfunction in non-obese diabetic mice.


ABSTRACT: Patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), an autoimmune disease primarily affecting exocrine glands, exhibit enhanced TNF-α expression in the saliva and salivary glands. However, the precise in vivo role of TNF-α during the initiation and development of SS is not clearly defined. The present study is undertaken to determine the function of endogenously produced TNF-α in the pathogenesis of SS in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a model of this human disease. Administration of a neutralizing anti-TNF-α antibody to female NOD mice during the stage prior to disease onset significantly improved salivary secretion, indicating a remission of clinical symptoms of SS. TNF-α blockade also decreased the number of leukocyte foci and reduced the number of T cells and B cells in the submandibular glands (SMG). Moreover, TNF-α blockade reduced T-bet protein levels in the SMG, suggesting a decrease in T helper 1 and T cytotoxic 1 cells. These cellular changes induced by TNF-α neutralization were associated with a reduction in T- and B-cell chemoattractants CXCL9 and CXC13. In addition, TNF-α blockade markedly increased the expression level of tight junction protein claudin-1 and water channel protein aquaporin-5, two key factors required for normal salivary secretion, in the SMG. Collectively, these findings indicate that endogenous TNF-α has a pathogenic role in the development of SS in the NOD model of this disease.

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5376226 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Pathogenic role of endogenous TNF-α in the development of Sjögren's-like sialadenitis and secretory dysfunction in non-obese diabetic mice.

Zhou Jing J   Kawai Toshihisa T   Yu Qing Q  

Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 20170109 4


Patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), an autoimmune disease primarily affecting exocrine glands, exhibit enhanced TNF-α expression in the saliva and salivary glands. However, the precise in vivo role of TNF-α during the initiation and development of SS is not clearly defined. The present study is undertaken to determine the function of endogenously produced TNF-α in the pathogenesis of SS in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a model of this human disease. Administration of a neutralizing anti-TNF-  ...[more]

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