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Mouse and human lung fibroblasts regulate dendritic cell trafficking, airway inflammation, and fibrosis through integrin ?v?8-mediated activation of TGF-?.

ABSTRACT: The airway is a primary portal of entry for noxious environmental stimuli that can trigger airway remodeling, which contributes significantly to airway obstruction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic asthma. Important pathologic components of airway remodeling include fibrosis and abnormal innate and adaptive immune responses. The positioning of fibroblasts in interstitial spaces suggests that they could participate in both fibrosis and chemokine regulation of the trafficking of immune cells such as dendritic cells, which are crucial antigen-presenting cells. However, physiological evidence for this dual role for fibroblasts is lacking. Here, in two physiologically relevant models - conditional deletion in mouse fibroblasts of the TGF-?-activating integrin ?v?8 and neutralization of ?v?8 in human COPD fibroblasts - we have elucidated a mechanism whereby lung fibroblast chemokine secretion directs dendritic cell trafficking, in a manner that is critically dependent on ?v?8-mediated activation of TGF-? by fibroblasts. Our data therefore indicate that fibroblasts have a crucial role in regulating both fibrotic and immune responses in the lung.

SUBMITTER: Kitamura H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3223836 | biostudies-other | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Mouse and human lung fibroblasts regulate dendritic cell trafficking, airway inflammation, and fibrosis through integrin αvβ8-mediated activation of TGF-β.

Kitamura Hideya H Cambier Stephanie S Somanath Sangeeta S Barker Tyren T Minagawa Shunsuke S Markovics Jennifer J Goodsell Amanda A Publicover Jean J Reichardt Louis L Jablons David D Wolters Paul P Hill Arthur A Marks James D JD Lou Jianlong J Pittet Jean-Francois JF Gauldie Jack J Baron Jody Lynn JL Nishimura Stephen L SL

The Journal of clinical investigation 20110606 7

The airway is a primary portal of entry for noxious environmental stimuli that can trigger airway remodeling, which contributes significantly to airway obstruction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic asthma. Important pathologic components of airway remodeling include fibrosis and abnormal innate and adaptive immune responses. The positioning of fibroblasts in interstitial spaces suggests that they could participate in both fibrosis and chemokine regulation of the traffic ...[more]

PMID: 21646718

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Mouse and human lung fibroblasts regulate dendritic cell trafficking, airway inflammation, and fibrosis through integrin ?v?8-mediated activation of TGF-?.

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Mouse and human lung fibroblasts regulate dendritic cell trafficking, airway inflammation, and fibrosis through integrin αvβ8-mediated activation of TGF-β.

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