title: Levels of soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-2 in plasma of patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, and significance of the changes in level.
abstract: Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an acute viral disease characterized by endothelial dysfunction. Vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1 and intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-2 provide costimulatory signals for the activation of T lymphocytes; these adhesion molecules play key roles in leukocyte adherence and propagation of inflammatory responses. They may be involved in the immunologic response that leads to vascular endothelial cell (VEC) and kidney damage of HFRS patients, and increased levels of soluble (s)VCAM-1 and sICAM-2 in plasma may indicate the severity of HFRS. We examined the presence of sVCAM-1 and sICAM-2 in 52 plasma samples collected from 52 patients. We tested these plasma samples for sVCAM-1 and sICAM-2 by double-antibody sandwich ELISA. We found variable, but persistently elevated, levels of sVCAM-1 and sICAM-2 throughout the various phases and types of the disease, which suggested sVCAM-1 may play an important role in the immunopathological lesions of HFRS and is closely correlated to the severity of HFRS and the degree of kidney damage. sICAM-2 may be associated with the hyperfunctioning of the cellular immune response.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Bao-Tai
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hui-Xun
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000097:blood*; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000097:blood*; D006480:Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / Q000276:immunology* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000821:virology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012995:Solubility; D019010:Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; C065289:ICAM2 protein, human; D019010:Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1