Interaction of Immune and Connective Tissue Cells
Interaction of Immune and Connective Tissue Cells
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免疫细胞和结缔组织细胞的相互作用
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
J. Korn
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作者:
J. Korn
InfLimmation and fibroproliferative events are biologic processes that are intimately associated with one another.' They occur together as part of the host's normal response to trauma, infection, and neoplasia (eg, wound healing, abscess formation, and tumor encapsulation). At other times, however, immune or intlammalory events and abnormalities of connective tissue biology are not only associated with, but appear to play a central role in, disease pathogenesis and/or expression. The concept of a functional interrelationship between immune cells and connective tissue elements in a variety of disease states is supported by a number of observations. First, many of the "connective tissue" disorders (eg, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and psoriasis) are characterized by various aberrations of immune function. Second, pathologic examination reveals a close association between lymphocytes and monocytes {mononuclear cells) and the connective tissue lesion. Thus, the proliferative pannus of rheumatoid synovium, the involved skin in scleroderma, the lungs in interstitial fibrosis, and the psoriaiic plaque are characterized, at least at some point during the genesis of the lesion, by a significant infiltration of mononuclear cells. Third, at least some of the connective tissue lesions may be reproduced by immunologic manipulation in either experimental animals or man: adjuvant disease^ and immunization with collagen'' as models for rheumatoid arthritis, homologous disease^ and the human graft-versus-host reaction-' as models for scleroderma. Finally, cell culture studies indicate that both immune cells and connective tissue cells rnay influence each other's growth and function.