Relation Between CD4+ T-Cell Activation and Severity of Chronic Heart Failure Secondary to Ischemic or Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy - 16/08/11
, Atsushi Irie, PhD b, Koichi Sugamura, MD a, Yoko Oe, MD a, Tomoko Tanaka, MD a, Yasuhiro Nagayoshi, MD a, Koichi Kaikita, MD, PhD a, Seigo Sugiyama, MD, PhD a, Michihiro Yoshimura, MD, PhD a, Yasuharu Nishimura, MD, PhD b, Hisao Ogawa, MD, PhD a
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The percentage of CD4+ T cells in blood is correlated with left ventricular dysfunction and decreased ejection fraction in heart disease. The aim of this study was to determine the relation between activation of CD4+ T cells and New York Heart Association functional classes in chronic heart failure (HF) and differences in inflammatory activation between ischemic cardiomyopathy (IC) and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). Blood samples were obtained from 47 patients with HF and 20 controls. Percentages of interferon-γ–positive CD4+ T cells (representative type 1 T-helper cells) and interleukin-4–positive CD4+ T cells (representative type 2 T-helper cells) were analyzed using 3-color flow cytometry. The proportion of interferon-γ–positive CD4+ T cells was higher in patients with HF (28.96 ± 12.90%) than in controls (18.12 ± 5.28, p = 0.0006), but there was no difference in percentage of interleukin-4–positive CD4+ T cells between the 2 groups. The proportion of interferon-γ–positive CD4+ T cells and plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels increased with worsening of New York Heart Association functional class in the IC and IDC groups. The proportion of interferon-γ–positive CD4+ T cells in the IC group (33.88 ± 13.33%) was higher than in the IDC group (22.33 ± 8.88%, p = 0.002); however, plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels were higher in the IDC group (358.0 pg/ml, 327.5 to 1,325.7) than in the IC group (82.7 pg/ml, 34.7 to 252.9, p = 0.019). In conclusion, we demonstrated pronounced type 1 T-helper cell activation in patients with HF in proportion to severity of HF and that the specificity of T-cell activation differs between patients with IC and those with IDC.
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| This study was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid C17590751 for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture in Japan and a grant from the Japan Arteriosclerosis Prevention Fund, Tokyo, Japan. |
Vol 100 - N° 3
P. 483-488 - août 2007 Retour au numéro
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