Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9110837 | Cytokine | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
To elucidate the usefulness of the simultaneous analysis of the multiple kinds of soluble cytokine receptors, we determined both the soluble interleukin 2 receptor (sIL-2R, Th1-type cytokine receptor) and the soluble interleukin 4 receptor (sIL-4R, Th2-type cytokine receptor) levels in the sera of healthy subjects as reference values and preliminarily applied to evaluate the patients with diarrhea positive (D+) hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) as the diagnostic parameter of the severity. Both sIL-2R and sIL-4R levels in the sera of healthy children were significantly higher than those of healthy adults (p < 0.01). The serum sIL-2R level of the patients with severe HUS (n = 4) was higher than that of the patients with mild/moderate HUS (n = 6) at the initial stage (p < 0.01) or healthy children (n = 51, p < 0.01). Whereas, the serum sIL-4R level of both the severe and mild/moderate groups was lower than that of the healthy control children, although there was no significant difference among the three groups. Namely, the soluble receptor balance (sIL-2R/sIL-4R) in the patients with severe HUS may shift. We considered that the evaluation of the balance between soluble cytokine receptors might be informative for the evaluation of the immune states, as well as the conventional cytokine balance (Th1/Th2).
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Authors
Naoya Fujita, Yoshihiro Okamoto, Yoshimitsu Gotoh, Yumiko Yada, Yoshimi Suzuki, Tsunesaburo Ando, Hajime Togari, Mikio Nishida,