ArticleClinical rheumatology2016
Vitamin A improve Th17 and Treg regulation in systemic lupus erythematosus.
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- Imbalance of Th17 cells, Treg cells and associated cytokines in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Pooled it
- Immunomodulatory Effects of Diet and Nutrients in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): A Systematic Review.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Pooled it
- The Regulatory T Cell in Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Pooled it
- The Proportion of Regulatory T Cells in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of immunology research · 2018Pooled it
- Restoring B cell intrinsic tolerance to lupus autoimmunity: a rational strategy for lupus treatment.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Integrative Rheumatology: A Holistic Approach to the Management of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Current rheumatology reviews · 2026Review
- The Anti-Lupus Plate: Mapping Nutritional Interventions to Inflammatory Pathways in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Vitamin A and Its Related Diseases.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Interleukin-27 and Autoimmune Disorders: A Compressive Review of Immunological Functions.Biomolecules · 2024Review
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- A Review of the Potential Benefits of Herbal Medicines, Small Molecules of Natural Sources, and Supplements for Health Promotion in Lupus Conditions.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Differential impact of environmental factors on systemic and localized autoimmunity.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Hypovitaminosis A Drives the Progression of Tubulointerstitial Lupus Nephritis through Potentiating Predisease Cellular Autoreactivity.ImmunoHorizons · 2023Article
- The changes of Treg and Th17 cells relate to serum 25(OH)D in patients with initial-onset childhood systemic lupus erythematosus.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Evaluating Risk: Benefit Ratio of Fat-Soluble Vitamin Supplementation to SARS-CoV-2-Infected Autoimmune and Cancer Patients: Do Vitamin-Drug Interactions Exist?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Influence of nutrients and metabolites on the differentiation of plasma cells and implications for autoimmunity.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Transcription Factor Activity Inference in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Diet and Hygiene in Modulating Autoimmunity During the Pandemic Era.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- Recent findings on the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); immunopathogenesis and immunotherapeutics.International immunopharmacology · 2020Review
- Regulation of the germinal center response by nuclear receptors and implications for autoimmune diseases.The FEBS journal · 2020Review
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the role of vitamin A in modulating T helper 17 (Th17) and regulatory T cell (Treg) balance in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Sixty-two female SLE patients and sixty-two female controls were measured for vitamin A levels from serum by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and percentages of Th17 and Treg from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) by flow cytometry. We also performed an in vitro study to evaluate the effects of retinoic acid treatment (0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 μg/ml) in modulating Th17/Treg balance in CD4(+) T cell culture from hypovitaminosis A SLE patients. Th17 and Treg percentages from cell cultures were measured by flow cytometry. Vitamin A levels in the SLE patients were lower compared to those in the healthy control (46.9 ± 43.4 vs. 75.6 ± 73.1 ng/ml, p = 0.015). Vitamin A levels also had a negative correlation to Th17 percentages in the SLE patients (p = 0.000, R = -0.642). Th17 percentages in the hypovitaminosis A SLE patients were higher compared to those SLE patients with normal vitamin A levels (10.9 ± 5.3 vs. 2.9 ± 2.2 %, p = 0.000). Treatment of 0.3 μg/ml of retinoic acid could increase Treg differentiation (33.9 ± 1.6 vs. 21.8 ± 1.1 %, p = 0.000) and decrease Th17 differentiation (27.2 ± 2.5 vs. 37.4 ± 1.3 %, p = 0.000). In conclusion, vitamin A has important roles in modulating Th17/Treg balance in the SLE patients shown by the significant decrease of vitamin A levels in the SLE patients which negatively correlate with Th17 population, and treatment of retinoic acid could decrease Th17 and increase Treg percentages in CD4(+) T cells cultures.
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