- Title
- Anti-inflammatory deficiencies in neutrophilic asthma: reduced galectin-3 and IL-1RA/IL-1β
- Creator
- Gao, Peng; Gibson, Peter G.; Zhang, Jie; Simpson, Jodie L.; Baines, Katherine J.; Yang, Ian A.; Upham, John W.; Reynolds, Paul N.; Hodge, Sandra; James, Alan L.; Jenkins, Christine; Peters, Matthew J.
- Relation
- Respiratory Research Vol. 16
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-014-0163-5
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Background: Galectin-3 (gal-3), a member of the β-galactoside-binding animal lectins, is involved in the recruitment, activation and removal of neutrophils. Neutrophilic asthma is characterized by a persistent elevation of airway neutrophils and impaired efferocytosis. We hypothesized that sputum gal-3 would be reduced in neutrophilic asthma and the expression of gal-3 would be associated with other markers of neutrophilic inflammation. Methods: Adults with asthma (n = 80) underwent a sputum induction following clinical assessment and blood collection. Sputum was dispersed for a differential cell count and ELISA assessment of gal-3, gal-3 binding protein (BP), interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-1 receptor antagonist (RA), IL-8 and IL-6. Gal-3 and gal-3BP immunoreactivity were assessed in mixed sputum cells. Results: Sputum gal-3 (median, (q1,q3)) was significantly reduced in neutrophilic asthma (183 ng/mL (91,287)) compared with eosinophilic (293 ng/mL (188,471), p = 0.021) and paucigranulocytic asthma (399 ng/mL (213,514), p = 0.004). The gal-3/gal-3BP ratio and IL-1RA/IL-1β ratio were significantly reduced, while gal-3BP and IL-1β were significantly elevated in neutrophilic asthma compared with eosinophilic and paucigranulocytic asthma. Conclusion: Patients with neutrophilic asthma have impairment in anti-inflammatory ratio of gal-3/gal-3BP and IL-1RA/IL-1β which provides a further framework for exploration into pathologic mechanisms of asthma phenotypes.
- Subject
- asthma; galectin-3; induced sputum; neutrophil; macrophage; IL-1β; lectin
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336202
- Identifier
- uon:27569
- Identifier
- ISSN:1465-9921
- Rights
- © 2015 Gao et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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