Biliary obstruction selectively expands and activates liver myeloid dendritic cells. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Obstructive jaundice is associated with immunologic derangements and hepatic inflammation and fibrosis. Because dendritic cells (DCs) play a major role in immune regulation, we hypothesized that the immunosuppression associated with jaundice may result from the functional impairment of liver DCs. We found that bile duct ligation (BDL) in mice expanded the myeloid subtype of liver DCs from 20 to 80% of total DCs and increased their absolute number by >15-fold. Liver myeloid DCs following BDL, but not sham laparotomy, had increased Ag uptake in vivo, high IL-6 secretion in response to LPS, and enhanced ability to activate T cells. The effects of BDL were specific to liver DCs, as spleen DCs were not affected. Expansion of liver myeloid DCs depended on Gr-1(+) cells, and we implicated monocyte chemotactic protein-1 as a potential mediator. Thus, obstructive jaundice selectively expands liver myeloid DCs that are highly functional and unlikely to be involved with impaired host immune responses.

publication date

  • June 15, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Cell Proliferation
  • Cholestasis
  • Dendritic Cells
  • Liver
  • Myeloid Cells

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33744945790

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.4049/jimmunol.176.12.7189

PubMed ID

  • 16751362

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 176

issue

  • 12