title: [Relationship between CCR5 and acute graft-versus-host disease in murine bone marrow transplantation].
abstract: This study was aimed to eveluate the role of CCR5 on donor cells in recipient models received intensive conditioning, so as provide the scientific evidence for clinical application of allo-HSCT. Lethally irradiated BALB/c mice received allogeneic bone marrow transplants from C57BL/6 mice. Mice divided into 4 groups according to receiving variant donor cells: B6 CCR5 KO group, receiving C57BL/6 CCR5(-/-) mice bone marrow cells and splenocytes; B6 WT BMC group, receiving C57BL/6 mice bone marrow cells and splenocytes; B6 CCR5 KO BMC group, receiving C57BL/6 CCR5(-/-) bone marrow cells alone; B6 WT BMC group, receiving C57BL/6 mice bone marrow cells alone. The result showed that compared to B6 WT BMC group, B6 CCR5 KO group succumbed to acute GVHD at an accelerated rate. Donor CD8(+) T cells expanded to a significantly greater extent in recipients of CCR5 KO, compared with B6 WT control cells. T cells recovered from recipients of CCR5 KO cells produced more IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha and proliferated to a T-cell at a significantly higher level than T cells from recipients of WT cells, indicating that CCR5 plays a role in downregualting donor alloreative CD8(+) T-cells expansion. Histological assessment of the mice indicated pathological lesions in the kidneys and a greater degree of liver pathological changes in mice that received CCR5 KO donor grafts. It is concluded that the knock-out of CCR5 on donor cells results in increase of GVHD and donor CD8(+) T cell expansion, as well as hepatic and renal lesions in allo-HSCT, which indicates that CCR5 is very important in allo-BMT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital University of Medicine Science, China. zhaowww263@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Zhao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000637:transplantation; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D019713:Receptors, CCR5 / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D019713:Receptors, CCR5