Abstract：
:Increased serum cytokine levels have been reported in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease, but less is known about their levels in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO). It is not known whether GO is a cell-mediated or humoral autoimmune disease. We investigated whether serum cytokines are elevated in GO patients and whether the cytokines were Th1- or Th2-derived. In addition, elevated cytokines might reflect the activity of GO, and thus we investigated whether cytokine levels could predict the clinical response to orbital radiotherapy. We studied 62 consecutive patients with moderately severe untreated GO and 62 healthy controls, matched for sex, age and smoking habits. Serum concentrations of IL-1RA, sIL-2R, IL-6, sIL-6R, tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) RI and II and sCD30 were measured using highly sensitive ELISAs, in the patients before and 3 and 6 months after radiotherapy. All patients were euthyroid, with anti-thyroid drugs, before and during the entire study period. All baseline cytokine and cytokine receptor levels were significantly elevated in GO patients compared with healthy controls, except for IL-1RA. The levels did not correlate with parameters of the thyroid disease, nor with the duration, activity or severity of GO. However, backward logistic regression analysis showed that IL-6, sCD30 and TNFalphaRI were able to predict a beneficial response to orbital radiotherapy. We therefore conclude that both Th1- and Th2-derived cytokines are elevated in GO patients compared with its controls. IL-6, sCD30 and TNFalphaRI had some value for predicting therapeutic outcome to orbital irradiation, and may thus reflect active eye disease.
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Clin Exp Immunoljournal_title
Clinical and experimental immunologyauthors
Wakelkamp IM,Gerding MN,Van Der Meer JW,Prummel MF,Wiersinga WMdoi
10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01335.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-09-01 00:00:00pages
453-7issue
3eissn
0009-9104issn
1365-2249pii
cei1335journal_volume
121pub_type
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