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ArticleOsong public health and research perspectives2014

Frequencies of CD4+ T Regulatory Cells and their CD25(high) and FoxP3(high) Subsets Augment in Peripheral Blood of Patients with Acute and Chronic Brucellosis.

Abbas Bahador, Jamshid Hadjati, Niloofar Hassannejad, Hadi Ghazanfari, Mohammadreza Maracy, Sirous Jafari, Maryam Nourizadeh, Amirhooshang Nejadeh

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Article in Osong public health and research perspectives, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Abbas BahadorDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Jamshid HadjatiDepartment of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Niloofar HassannejadDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Hadi GhazanfariDepartment of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammadreza MaracyDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Sirous JafariDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Maryam NourizadehImmunology, Asthma and Allergy Research Institute, Children Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Amirhooshang NejadehNejadeh Med lab, Varamin, Iran.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRIsfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRIslamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesBrucellosis remains one of the most common zoonotic diseases worldwide. In humans, brucellosis can be a serious, debilitating, and sometimes chronic disease. Different mechanisms can be postulated as to the basis for the induction of the chronic status of infectious diseases that T regulatory cells are one of the most important related mechanisms. The current study was designed to determine whether percentage of CD4+Treg cells and their CD25(high) and FoxP3(high) subpopulations in peripheral blood are changed in human brucellosis samples in comparison to a control group.

methodsIn total, 68 brucellosis patients (acute form: n = 43, chronic form: n = 25) and 36 healthy volunteers entered our study. After isolating of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, heparinized venous blood samples were obtained from both patients and healthy donors, CD4, CD25, and FoxP3 molecules were evaluated by two- and three-color flow cytometric methods.

resultsThe results revealed a new finding in relation to Treg cells and human brucellosis. The numbers of CD4(+)Treg cells and their CD25(high) and FoxP3(high) subsets increase significantly in the peripheral blood of acute and chronic forms of brucellosis samples compared with healthy groups, with this increase being greater in the chronic group.

conclusionThere seems to be a correlation between increase of CD4+Treg cells and their subsets and the disease progress from healthy state to acute and chronic brucellosis.

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brucellosisCD25high subsetsCD4+ T regulatory cellsFoxP3high subsets

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