PMID- 24583143 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141228 LR - 20171116 IS - 1878-1705 (Electronic) IS - 1567-5769 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 1 DP - 2014 May TI - Modulation of phenotypic and functional maturation of murine bone-marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) induced by cadmium chloride. PG - 131-40 LID - S1567-5769(14)00069-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.intimp.2014.02.015 [doi] AB - Cadmium (Cd(2+)) has been classified as a type I human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In the present study, we are going to report for the first time on the detailed modulation of phenotypic and functional maturation of murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) induced by cadmium chloride. Dendritic cells (DCs) are major modulators in the whole immune system. One dynamic field of research is the manipulation of DCs as pharmacological targets to screen novel biological modifiers for the treatment of tumor, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. Phenotypic and functional maturation of BMDCs was evaluated by phase-contrast light microscope for primary cultures, flow cytometry (FCM) for important DC markers, reverse-transcriptase PCR and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for cytokines. Cd(2+)-induced BMDC death was also performed by comet assay. Our results elucidated that Cd(2+) suppressed maturation of BMDCs via changes as reflected by the decreased expression of key surface molecules such as MHCII and CD40, and also by releasing the lower level of IL-12p70. The change of expression of other co-stimulatory molecules such as CD86 and CD80 was not so significant. However, it was found that cadmium promotes releasing a higher level of IL-23 from BMDCs. So from our study, it can be concluded that cadmium may be one of the potent immunosuppressive agents through the blockage of DC maturation and function. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Chakraborty, Kaustav AU - Chakraborty K AD - Immunology Lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India. FAU - Chatterjee, Soumya AU - Chatterjee S AD - Immunology Lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India. FAU - Bhattacharyya, Arindam AU - Bhattacharyya A AD - Immunology Lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India. Electronic address: arindam19@yahoo.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140226 PL - Netherlands TA - Int Immunopharmacol JT - International immunopharmacology JID - 100965259 RN - 0 (CD40 Antigens) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class II) RN - 0 (Interleukin-23) RN - 187348-17-0 (Interleukin-12) RN - J6K4F9V3BA (Cadmium Chloride) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bone Marrow Cells/cytology MH - CD40 Antigens/immunology MH - Cadmium Chloride/*pharmacology MH - Cell Differentiation/drug effects MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Dendritic Cells/cytology/*drug effects/immunology MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology MH - Interleukin-12/immunology MH - Interleukin-23/immunology MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Phenotype OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bone-marrow-derived dendritic cells OT - Cadmium chloride OT - Immune system OT - Immunomodulation OT - Immunosuppression OT - Maturation EDAT- 2014/03/04 06:00 MHDA- 2014/12/30 06:00 CRDT- 2014/03/04 06:00 PHST- 2013/11/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/02/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/02/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/03/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/03/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/12/30 06:00 [medline] AID - S1567-5769(14)00069-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.intimp.2014.02.015 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int Immunopharmacol. 2014 May;20(1):131-40. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2014.02.015. Epub 2014 Feb 26.