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Neuroinflammation is a major contributor to disease progression in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is characterized by the activity of brain resident glial cells, in particular microglia cells. However, there is increasing evidence that peripheral immune cells infiltrate the brain at certain stages of AD progression and shape disease pathology. We recently identified CD8+ T-cells in the brain parenchyma of APP-PS1 transgenic mice being tightly associated with microglia as well as with neuronal structures. The functional role of CD8+ T-cells in the AD brain is however completely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate increased numbers of intra-parenchymal CD8+ T-cells in human AD post-mortem hippocampus, which was replicated in APP-PS1 mice. Also, aged WT mice show a remarkable infiltration of CD8+ T-cells, which was more pronounced and had an earlier onset in APP-PS1 mice. To address their functional relevance in AD, we successfully ablated the pool of CD8+ T-cells in the blood, spleen and brain from 12 months-old APP contribute to neuronal dysfunction in modulating synaptic plasticity. Further analysis will be essential to uncover the exact mechanism of how CD8+ T-cells modulate the neuronal landscape and thereby contribute to AD pathology.Identifying genes involved in functional differences between similar tissues from expression profiles is challenging, because the expected differences in expression levels are small. To exemplify this challenge, we studied the expression profiles of two skeletal muscles, deltoid and biceps, in healthy individuals. We provide a series of guides and recommendations for the analysis of this type of studies. These include how to account for batch effects and inter-individual differences to optimize the detection of gene signatures associated with tissue function. We provide guidance on the selection of optimal settings for constructing gene co-expression networks through parameter sweeps of settings and calculation of the overlap with an established knowledge network. learn more Our main recommendation is to use a combination of the data-driven approaches, such as differential gene expression analysis and gene co-expression network analysis, and hypothesis-driven approaches, such as gene set connectivity analysis. Accordingly, we detected differences in metabolic gene expression between deltoid and biceps that were supported by both data- and hypothesis-driven approaches. Finally, we provide a bioinformatic framework that support the biological interpretation of expression profiles from related tissues from this combination of approaches, which is available at github.com/tabbassidaloii/AnalysisFrameworkSimilarTissues.Type I interferon is considered to be a key cytokine in influenza virus-induced acute lung injury (ALI), in which IRF3 and IRF7 play particularly important roles. However, whether all nine members of IRF family are involved in influenza virus-induced immune response is currently unknown. In this study, we found that all members of IRF family responded to influenza virus. The IRF family expression profile seems to be related to the pathogenicity of the particular influenza virus strain. The influenza virus mainly relies on endosomal TLR signals and the positive feedback loop of IFN-I to cause either direct or indirect different expression of all IRF family members locally or systemically. Interestingly, IRF6 was somewhat different from other IRF family members during influenza virus infection. Overall, the expression profile of the IRF family may be a valuable reference for the prevention and treatment of influenza complications, which encourage further, more in-depth research.Background Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN nephropathy, IgAN) is named for the renal pathological features of IgA-dominant immunoglobulin deposition. IgA deposits, however, may also occur in other diseases, from liver disease and inflammation to chronic infections and tumors. Now increasing studies have suggested that galactose-deficient IgA1 (Gd-IgA1) plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of IgAN. This study aims to investigate whether the Gd-IgA1-specific antibody KM55 contributes to differentiating primary IgAN from other diseases with IgA deposits. Methods In this retrospective study, we enrolled 100 Chinese patients with IgA deposits in renal biopsies, including IgAN(n = 40), IgAN with hepatitis B virus antigen deposits(n = 14), IgA vasculitis(n = 16), lupus nephritis(n = 11), incidental IgA deposits(n = 13) and negative controls(n = 6). Double immunostaining of Gd-IgA1 and IgA was performed in all biopsies. Results There were similar patterns of Gd-IgA1 deposition in primary IgAN, IgA vasculitis, and IgAN with hepatitis B virus antigen deposits. Gd-IgA1 staining could also be seen in patients with lupus nephritis and incidental IgA deposits, but the intensity was significantly lower than IgAN, and the optimal cutoff was 2+ staining for differential diagnosis. Every increase in KM55 staining intensity of 1+ was associated with an increase in the odds of primary IgAN (OR 4.399; 95% CI 1.725-11.216). Conclusions Immunostaining for Gd-IgA1 by KM55 is not specific for IgA nephropathy, but weak or negative staining may favor incidental IgA deposits.B-cell clonal expansion has been sporadically described in the blood and/or renal tissue of patients with glomerulonephritides, albeit with unclear pathogenetic role. Herein, using spectratyping analysis, we observed oligoclonal intrarenal B-cell populations in 59% of glomerulonephritis patients with podocyte injury (6/7 with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, 1/3 minimal change disease, 1/3 idiopathic membranous nephropathy, 3/4 IgA nephropathy, 2/5 membranous lupus nephritis), 20% of glomerulonephritis patients without podocyte involvement (4/13 with mesangial or proliferative lupus nephritis, 0/3 idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, 0/4 pauci-immune vasculitis) and 17% of control patients with renal cancer. In multivariate analysis, oligoclonal B-cells were associated with podocyte injury and the grade of glomerulosclerosis (both p = .009). B-cell oligoclonal expansions were not found in the paired peripheral blood samples. We postulate that B-cell expansion in the kidney results from local stimuli, including antigens expressed on podocytes.
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