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Chimeric cells of maternal origin do not appear to be pathogenic in the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies or muscular dystrophy
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Chimeric cells of maternal origin do not appear to be pathogenic in the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies or muscular dystrophy

Carol M. Artlett, Sihem Sassi-Gaha, Ronald C. Ramos, Frederick W. Miller and Lisa G. Rider
Arthritis research & therapy, v 17(1), pp 238-238
04 Sep 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-015-0732-0
PMID: 26338728
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Abstract

Life Sciences & Biomedicine Rheumatology Science & Technology
Introduction: Microchimeric cells have been studied for over a decade, with conflicting reports on their presence and role in autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases. To determine whether microchimeric cells were pathogenic or mediating tissue repair in inflammatory myopathies, we phenotyped and quantified microchimeric cells in juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (JIIM), muscular dystrophy (MD), and noninflammatory control muscle tissues. Method: Fluorescence immunophenotyping for infiltrating cells with sequential fluorescence in situ hybridization was performed on muscle biopsies from ten patients with JIIM, nine with MD and ten controls. Results: Microchimeric cells were significantly increased in MD muscle (0.079 +/- 0.024 microchimeric cells/mm(2) tissue) compared to controls (0.019 +/- 0.007 cells/mm(2) tissue, p = 0.01), but not elevated in JIIM muscle (0.043 +/- 0.015 cells/mm(2)). Significantly more CD4+ and CD8+ microchimeric cells were in the muscle of patients with MD compared with controls (mean 0.053 +/- 0.020/mm(2) versus 0 +/- 0/mm(2) p = 0.003 and 0.043 +/- 0.023/mm(2) versus 0 +/- 0/mm(2) p = 0.025, respectively). No differences in microchimeric cells between JIIM, MD, and noninflammatory controls were found for CD3+, Class II+, CD25+, CD45RA+, and CD123+ phenotypes, and no microchimeric cells were detected in CD20, CD83, or CD45RO populations. The locations of microchimeric cells were similar in all three conditions, with MD muscle having more microchimeric cells in perimysial regions than controls, and JIIM having fewer microchimeric muscle nuclei than MD. Microchimeric inflammatory cells were found, in most cases, at significantly lower proportions than autologous cells of the same phenotype. Conclusions: Microchimeric cells are not specific to autoimmune disease, and may not be important in muscle inflammation or tissue repair in JIIM.

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