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Pulse cyclophosphamide plus methylprednisolone induces myelin-antigen-specific IL-4-secreting T cells in multiple sclerosis patients.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a presumed cell-mediated Th1-type autoimmune disease. Thus therapies which decrease T cells secreting IFN-gamma production or increase IL-4 production would be expected to have an ameliorating effect on MS. We have previously reported increased anti-CD3-induced IL-4 secretion by T cells in progressive MS patients treated with cyclophosphamide plus methylprednisolone (CY/MP) which was associated with eosinophilia. To investigate whether the increased IL-4 secretion was myelin antigen specific, we generated 3990 short-term T cell lines to myelin basic protein (MBP), proteolipid protein (PLP), or tetanus toxoid (TT) from 31 progressive MS patients: 11 MS patients treated with CY/MP, 10 MS patients treated with MP alone, and 10 untreated MS patients. We found increased frequencies of both MBP- and PLP-specific IL-4- secreting T cell lines in CY/MP-treated patients compared to untreated MS patients. However, no change in the frequency of TT-specific IL-4-secreting T cells was observed. MP treatment alone did not increase the frequency of antigen-specific IL-4-secreting T cell lines. These results demonstrate immune deviation favoring Th2-type responses specific to autoantigens following pulse cyclophosphamide therapy in MS patients.[1]

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  1. Pulse cyclophosphamide plus methylprednisolone induces myelin-antigen-specific IL-4-secreting T cells in multiple sclerosis patients. Takashima, H., Smith, D.R., Fukaura, H., Khoury, S.J., Hafler, D.A., Weiner, H.L. Clin. Immunol. Immunopathol. (1998) [Pubmed]
 
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