Stroebel, Philipp and Helmreich, Markus and Menioudakis, Georgios and Lewin, Sharon R. and Ruediger, Thomas and Bauer, Andrea and Hoffacker, Viola and Gold, Ralf and Nix, Wilfred and Schalke, Berthold and Elert, Olaf and Semik, Michael and Mueller-Hermelink, Hans Konrad and Marx, Alexander (2002) Paraneoplastic myasthenia gravis correlates with generation of mature naive CD4(+) T cells in thymomas. BLOOD, 100 (1). pp. 159-166. ISSN 0006-4971
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Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the leading paraneoplastic manifestation of thymomas and is probably related to the capacity of thymomas to mature and export potentially autoreactive T cells. Why some thymomas are MG associated (MG+) and others are not (MG-) has been unclear. We addressed this question by comparing the percentages of intratumorous naive mature CD45RA+ thymocytes in 9 MG(+) and in 13 MG(-) thymomas by fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis. Our results show that intratumorous naive CD4 T cells were present in all MG(+) thymomas and in one MG(-) thymoma with the development of MG only 2 months after surgery. By contrast, the percentage of naive CD4(+) T cells was significantly reduced in all 13 MG(-) thymomas (P<.0001). Alterations in intratumorous thymopoiesis were reflected by corresponding alterations of naive T-cell subset composition in the blood, in that only MG(-) patients had significantly decreased levels (P=.02) of naive CD4(+) T cells compared with age- and sex-matched control persons. We conclude that paraneoplastic MG is highly associated with the efficiency of thymomas to produce and export naive CD4(+) T cells. The acquisition of the CD45RA(+) phenotype on CD4(+) T cells during terminal intratumorous thymopoiesis is associated with the presence of MG in most thymoma patients.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR; LINEAGE COMMITMENT; THYMIC EMIGRANTS; SELECTION; IDENTIFICATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; INFECTION; APOPTOSIS; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Neurologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2021 10:47 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2021 10:47 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/40099 |
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