1. Clearance of Helicobacter pylori infection through immunization: the site of T cell activation contributes to vaccine efficacy
- Author
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Yuko Matsumoto, Julia C. Eisenberg, and Thomas G. Blanchard
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Phagocyte ,T-Lymphocytes ,T cell ,Inflammation ,Biology ,Lymphocyte Activation ,Helicobacter Infections ,Mice ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Helicobacter pylori ,General Veterinary ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,T lymphocyte ,biology.organism_classification ,Bacterial vaccine ,Disease Models, Animal ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Immunization ,Bacterial Vaccines ,Immunology ,Molecular Medicine ,Gastritis ,medicine.symptom - Abstract
Helicobacter pylori vaccine development has progressed rapidly in animal models. Both H. pylori-associated pathogenesis and protective immunity are CD4+ T cell dependent, with no discernable phenotypic difference to distinguish pathogenic T cells from protective T cells. Functionally however, protective T cells promote enhanced inflammation upon H. pylori challenge. Additionally, only mouse models such as phagocyte oxidase- or IL-10-deficient mice that respond to H. pylori infection with intense gastritis are capable of demonstrating spontaneous eradication of the bacteria. These data, combined with recent descriptions of down-regulatory T cells in infected humans and mice, support an emerging model of H. pylori pathogenesis in which H. pylori induces inflammation that is limited by regulatory T cells in the stomach. Immunization therefore may succeed by activating T cells in peripheral lymph nodes that are capable of promoting qualitatively or quantitatively different inflammation when recruited to the stomach. Evidence in support of this model will be discussed.
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- 2004