单位:[1]Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA[2]Department of Neurology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA[3]Department of Neurology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China临床科室神经内科神经内科首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院[4]Myasthenia Gravis Center and Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China
To better define the role of IL-17A in myasthenia gravis (MG), we assessed plasma concentrations in 69 adult patients with MG prior to initiation of immunosuppression and monitored their clinical course for the subsequent 2 years with quantitative MG scores (QMGS) and Osserman classification. IL-17A was higher among patients than healthy control subjects. Early-onset women without thymoma had greater elevations of IL-17A. Logistic regression analysis indicated that the absence of thymoma rather than women gender or early-onset was the significant determinant associated with IL-17A elevation. Elevated IL-17A levels were associated with more severe MG. In summary, IL-17A has role in the pathogenesis of a subgroup of patients with early-onset women with MG with greater disease severity who are most likely to have thymic hyperplasia. This subgroup may be a target for IL-17 treatments, which are under development. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [81070963]; Shandong Provincial Natural Science FoundationNatural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2010HM019]
第一作者单位:[2]Department of Neurology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA[3]Department of Neurology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA[2]Department of Neurology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA[*1]Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, 2300 I St NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Xie Yanchen,Li Haifeng,Jiang Bin,et al.Elevated plasma interleukin-17A in a subgroup of Myasthenia Gravis patients[J].CYTOKINE.2016,78:44-46.doi:10.1016/j.cyto.2015.06.011.
APA:
Xie, Yanchen,Li, Haifeng,Jiang, Bin,Li, Yao,Kaminski, Henry J.&Kusner, Linda L..(2016).Elevated plasma interleukin-17A in a subgroup of Myasthenia Gravis patients.CYTOKINE,78,
MLA:
Xie, Yanchen,et al."Elevated plasma interleukin-17A in a subgroup of Myasthenia Gravis patients".CYTOKINE 78.(2016):44-46