IL-17 Expression in Human Herpetic Stromal Keratitis: Modulatory Effects on Chemokine Production by Corneal Fibroblasts
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- 15 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 169 (10), 5897-5903
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.169.10.5897
Abstract
Herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) is an immunopathologic disease triggered by infection of the cornea with HSV. Key events in HSK involve the interaction between cornea-infiltrating inflammatory cells and resident cells. This interaction, in which macrophages, producing IL-1 and TNF-α, and IFN-γ-producing Th1 cells play a crucial role, results in the local secretion of immune-modulatory factors and a major influx of neutrophils causing corneal lesions and blindness. The Th1-derived cytokine IL-17 has been shown to play an important role in several inflammatory diseases characterized by a massive infiltration of neutrophils into inflamed tissue. Here we show that IL-17 is expressed in corneas from patients with HSK and that the IL-17R is constitutively expressed by human corneal fibroblasts (HCF). IL-17 exhibited a strong synergistic effect with TNF-α on the induction of IL-6 and IL-8 secretion by cultured HCF. Secreted IL-8 in these cultures had a strong chemotactic effect on neutrophils. IL-17 also enhanced TNF-α- and IFN-γ-induced secretion of macrophage-inflammatory proteins 1α and 3α, while inhibiting the induced secretion of RANTES. Furthermore, considerable levels of IFN-γ-inducible protein 10 and matrix metalloproteinase 1 were measured in stimulated HCF cultures, while the constitutive secretion of monocyte chemotactic protein 1 remained unaffected. The data presented suggest that IL-17 may play an important role in the induction and/or perpetuation of the immunopathologic processes in human HSK by modulating the secretion of proinflammatory and neutrophil chemotactic factors by corneal resident fibroblasts.Keywords
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