Perfil imunofenotípico e nível de citocinas plásmáticas em portadores de hepatite C crônica com diferentes graus de comprometimento hepático

• Autor(a) principal: Magnoni, Mariana Sartori [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110669
• topic: Hepatite C; Citocinas; Marcadores biologicos; Figado - Doenças; Fibromialgia; Liver Diseases

The chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the cause of chronic liver disease affecting about 3% of world population, approximately 170 million people. Investigations of the immune response in individuals infected with HCV is justifiable because this form infectious disease whose immunological changes are directly related to the development and maintenance of infection. This project aimed to evaluate aspects that make up the immune chronic hepatitis C patients with different degrees of liver damage response. The study included patients HCV+ (n = 83), genotype 1, pretreatment, which were classified according to the rate of hepatic fibrosis determined by biopsy (METAVIR classification), composed of: G1 (n = 15) patients in stages F0 (no fibrosis) + F1 (fibrosis expansion of port spaces), G2 (n = 21) patients in the F2 stage (few sources of fibrosis in portal ), G3 ( n = 15 ) patients with stage F3 (early nodule formation), G4 (n = 32) patients with stage F4 (severe fibrosis), G5 (n = 16) volunteer blood donors (control group). Immunophenotypic characteristics of subpopulations of peripheral blood leukocytes (total NK cells, NKdim , NKbright , myeloid dendritic cells and plasmacytoid , classical monocytes, pro- inflammatory CD4 + / CD8 + cells), cytokine levels and plasma chemokines (were evaluated TGF- β , TNF - α , CCL2 , CCL3 , CCL4 , CCL5 , CXCL8 , CXCL9, CXCL10), analyzing their relationship with the progression of fibrosis. All frequencies of evaluated leukocyte subpopulations are altered in patients with chronic hepatitis C compared with healthy subjects. In addition, no correlation between the degree of fibrosis and the amount of CD4, CD8, pro-inflammatory monocytes and circulating NKbright cells. Increased levels of TNF-α were observed in cirrhotic patients (G4) and TGF - β in HCV + groups with moderate hepatic fibrosis (G2 and G3). Plasma chemokine CXCL9/MIG, CXCL10/IP-10, CXCL8/IL-8, CCL2/MPC-1, ...