Abstract
Schistosomiasis caused by human schistosomes such as Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) is considered as an immune-related disease. It was demonstrated that specific cytokine antibodies’ response elicited by S. japonicum infection was gradually downregulated with the progress of the disease, resulting in a Th1/Th2 polarization and suppression of immune response. CD28 (cluster of differentiation 28) is one of the proteins expressed on T cells that provide co-stimulatory signals required for T cell activation and survival, and CD38 is an activating marker of T lymphocyte with high expression in many acute or chronic infections. The immune signature of CD28null T cells in the peripheral circulation associates with chronic inflammation in many diseases, such as HIV and CMV infection. In the thymus, CD28 expression on developing thymocytes appears to play a role for their selection, and it synergizes with CD38 to induce apoptosis of DP (double-positive) thymocytes. Few reports about CD28 and CD38 have been published in schistosomiasis. Here, we investigated the dynamic patterns of the expression of molecules CD28 and CD38 on CD4+/CD8+ T lymphocytes of the thymus and spleen in mice model with S. japonicum infection. Our data indicated that at an early period of infection, the frequency of CD8+CD28− T cell in the spleen decreased significantly, but higher at chronic infection than that in control. However, it demonstrated an increasing trend in the thymus with the progression of infection. The frequency of CD4+CD28− T cells increased from acute infection in the thymus, while from chronic infection in the spleen. The expression of CD38 on CD8+ T cells began to increase at 4 weeks post infection both in the thymus and spleen; its elevated expression on CD4+ T cells emerged at 6 weeks post infection in the thymus and at 10 weeks post infection in the spleen. Praziquantel (PZQ) treatment could partially restore the frequency of CD28+ T cell of CD4+ T cells and CD38+ T cell of CD8+/CD4+ T cells in the spleen and CD38+ T cell in the thymus. We hypothesized that the reactivation of S. japonicum infection may trigger expansion of CD28− T cells and hence mediate systemic inflammation. We speculated that CD8+CD28− T cell might be involved in immune modulation and CD8+CD28− T cell may be a crucial part in pathogenesis, which can provide further knowledge of the sophisticated mechanism of immuno-downregulation in schistosomiasis and potential treatment target.
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This work was supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China(863 Program, No 2015AA020934), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30972574 and 81201309),the grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2011 M501363), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (No. S2012040007256), and Foundation of Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20120171120049).
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Li, N., Ji, Py., Song, Lg. et al. The expression of molecule CD28 and CD38 on CD4+/CD8+ T lymphocytes in thymus and spleen elicited by Schistosoma japonicum infection in mice model. Parasitol Res 114, 3047–3058 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4507-y
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