Evidence for the involvement of interleukin-1α during development of experimental cytomegalovirus retinitis in immunosuppressed mice.
Cytokine
; 144: 155596, 2021 08.
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ABSTRACT
Interleukin-1α (IL-1α) is an alarmin involved in the recruitment of macrophages and neutrophils during tissue inflammation. IL-1α can undergo cleavage by proteases, such as calpain-1, that enhances IL-1α binding to its receptor, although proteolytic cleavage is not necessary for biological activity. Macrophages and neutrophils are involved in the retinal inflammation associated with development of AIDS-related human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) retinitis. We therefore performed studies to test the hypothesis that IL-1α gene expression is stimulated intraocularly during retinitis development using two mouse models of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) retinitis that differ in method of immunosuppression, one by retrovirus-induced immunosuppression (MAIDS) and the other by corticosteroid-induced immunosuppression. MCMV-infected eyes of groups of retinitis-susceptible mice with MAIDS of 10 weeks duration (MAIDS-10 mice) and retinitis-susceptible corticosteroid-treated mice showed significant stimulation of IL-1α mRNA. Western blot analysis confirmed IL-1α protein production within the MCMV-infected eyes of MAIDS-10 mice. Whereas significant intraocular calpain-1 mRNA and protein production were also observed within MCMV-infected eyes of MAIDS-10 mice, the MCMV-infected eyes of retinitis-susceptible corticosteroid-treated mice showed a pattern of mRNA synthesis equivalent to that found within the MCMV-infected eyes of healthy mice that fail to develop retinitis. Our findings suggest a role for the alarmin IL-1α in the pathogenesis of MCMV retinitis in immunosuppressed mice. These findings may extend to the pathogenesis of HCMV retinitis in patients with AIDS or other forms of immunosuppression.
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Retina
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Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida Murina
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Muromegalovirus
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Retinite por Citomegalovirus
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Interleucina-1alfa
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Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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En
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2021
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