Patients with the most advanced rheumatoid arthritis remain with Th1 systemic defects after TNF inhibitors treatment despite clinical improvement.

Abstract:

:Systemic immune defects might reflect severely dysregulated control of chronic inflammation related to disease progression. Th17/Treg cell imbalance has been demonstrated to be involved in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathogenesis. Despite controversial results, a growing anti-inflammatory role in this process has been recently attributed to Th1 responses. The aim of the study was to estimate the extent of Th1/Th17/Treg imbalance in peripheral blood (PB) of patients with short- and long-term RA in relation to cytokine milieu and its reversal after therapy with methotrexate and/or TNF inhibitors, respectively. Patients with different duration of RA (median 6 vs. 120 months) in the active phase of RA were enrolled in this study. We performed flow cytometric analysis of PB Th1, Th17, and Treg populations together with estimation of serum cytokine concentrations using cytometric bead array. Disease activity was calculated on the basis of clinical and biochemical indices of inflammation (DAS28, ESR, CRP). All parameters were measured and correlated with each other before and after 6 months therapy. Elevated levels of circulating Th17 cells and IL-6 were found in all active patients, of which Th17 cells were down-regulated by the treatment. Significantly reduced Th1 and functional CTLA-4+ Treg cell frequencies as well as Th1 cytokines observed only in progressive RA seemed to be irreversible. Although therapy induced clinical improvement in almost all patients, those with advanced RA remained with signs of inflammation. Our report demonstrates that both the extent of systemic immune abnormalities and their restoration are dependent on duration of the active RA.

journal_name

Rheumatol Int

authors

Kosmaczewska A,Swierkot J,Ciszak L,Szteblich A,Chrobak A,Karabon L,Partyka A,Szechinski J,Wiland P,Frydecka I

doi

10.1007/s00296-013-2895-9

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-02-01 00:00:00

pages

243-53

issue

2

eissn

0172-8172

issn

1437-160X

journal_volume

34

pub_type

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