PMID- 24150243 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141010 LR - 20220321 IS - 1460-2377 (Electronic) IS - 0953-8178 (Linking) VI - 26 IP - 2 DP - 2014 Feb TI - Th2-type inflammation instructs inflammatory dendritic cells to induce airway hyperreactivity. PG - 103-14 LID - 10.1093/intimm/dxt047 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) play critical roles in determining the fate of CD4(+) T cells. Among DC sub-populations, monocyte-derived inflammatory DCs (iDCs) have been shown to play an important role in the induction of adaptive immune responses under inflammatory conditions. Although previous studies have shown that DCs have an indispensable role in the induction of allergic airway inflammation and airway hyperreactivity (AHR) in murine asthma models, the precise roles of iDCs in the asthmatic responses remain largely unknown. We show here that T(h)2 cell-mediated inflammation in murine asthma models induces the expression of some markers of alternatively activated macrophage such as arginase 1 and resistin-like molecule-alpha in iDCs by a mechanism depending on the intrinsic expression of STAT6. In contrast, T(h)1 cell-mediated inflammation induces iDCs to express TNF-alpha and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), markers of TNF-alpha- and iNOS-producing DCs. Moreover, we show that iDCs under a T(h)2 environment play an important role in the induction of AHR, independently of allergic airway inflammation. Our results thus indicate the importance of iDCs in the induction of AHR as downstream effector cells in T(h)2 cell-mediated asthmatic responses. FAU - Iwata, Arifumi AU - Iwata A AD - Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and. FAU - Kawashima, Saki AU - Kawashima S FAU - Kobayashi, Midori AU - Kobayashi M FAU - Okubo, Ayako AU - Okubo A FAU - Kawashima, Hirotoshi AU - Kawashima H FAU - Suto, Akira AU - Suto A FAU - Hirose, Koichi AU - Hirose K FAU - Nakayama, Toshinori AU - Nakayama T FAU - Nakajima, Hiroshi AU - Nakajima H LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20131022 PL - England TA - Int Immunol JT - International immunology JID - 8916182 RN - 0 (Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins) RN - 0 (Retnla protein, mouse) RN - 0 (STAT6 Transcription Factor) RN - EC 3.5.3.1 (Arg1 protein, mouse) RN - EC 3.5.3.1 (Arginase) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Arginase/metabolism MH - Asthma/*immunology MH - Bronchial Hyperreactivity/*immunology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Cellular Microenvironment MH - Complement Pathway, Alternative MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Humans MH - Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism MH - Macrophages/*immunology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Pneumonia/immunology MH - STAT6 Transcription Factor/genetics/metabolism MH - Th2 Cells/*immunology OTO - NOTNLM OT - STAT6 OT - arginase 1 OT - asthma OT - inflammatory DC EDAT- 2013/10/24 06:00 MHDA- 2014/10/11 06:00 CRDT- 2013/10/24 06:00 PHST- 2013/10/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/10/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/10/11 06:00 [medline] AID - dxt047 [pii] AID - 10.1093/intimm/dxt047 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int Immunol. 2014 Feb;26(2):103-14. doi: 10.1093/intimm/dxt047. Epub 2013 Oct 22.