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Mast cells are important in the development of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. A study with mast-cell-deficient mice
Authors:H Takizawa  K Ohta  K Hirai  Y Misaki  T Horiuchi  N Kobayashi  J Shiga  T Miyamoto
Affiliation:Department of Medicine and Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:We have previously reported that C57B1/6 mice develop lung lesions similar to human hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) by repeated transnasal administration of Thermoactinomyces vulgaris antigen. Since the HP-like lesions were induced via respiratory route and by the causative antigen in human HP (farmer's lung), it seems that this murine model is useful for investigating the cell-to-cell interactions in human HP. To clarify the involvement of mast cells (MC) in the development of HP, T. vulgaris (90 micrograms/day) was transnasally administered to MC-deficient WBB6F1-W/Wv mice (W/Wv) and their littermates (+/+) five times a wk for 3 wk. When the lungs were examined by scoring pathological findings and lung indexes, HP-like lesions were significantly less severe in W/Wv than in +/+, whose lesions were equivalent to those of C57B1/6. Bone-marrow-derived cultured MC from +/+ mice (98% purity) were obtained by in vitro culture mixed with WEHI-3B-derived conditioned medium which contained IL-3. When these MC were adoptively transferred to W/Wv mice (10(7) cells/mouse), the HP-like lesions in W/Wv mice were enhanced to be as severe as those in +/+. Importantly, significant numbers of MC were found in the lungs of MC-transferred W/Wv mice. These results suggest that MC play an important role in the development of the murine experimental HP.
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