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Title: Cell reservoirs of the epstein-barr virus in biopsy-proven lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis in HIV-1 subtype e infected children: Identification by combined in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry
Authors: Lertlakana Bhoopat
Somrak Rangkakulnuwat
Risa Okonogi
Komson Wannasai
Tanin Bhoopat
Authors: Lertlakana Bhoopat
Somrak Rangkakulnuwat
Risa Okonogi
Komson Wannasai
Tanin Bhoopat
Keywords: Health Professions;Medicine
Issue Date: 1-May-2010
Abstract: Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis (LIP), a frequent pulmonary complication in human immune deficiency virus (HIV)-infected pediatric patients, is characterized histologically by marked infiltration of lymphoid cells. Several theories have been suggested that LIP may be caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). To identify the reservoir of EBV and pathogenesis of lymphoid infiltrates in HIV subtype E infected pediatric LIP, we examined the distribution and expression of EBV in the inflammatory cell recruitment in surgical lung biopsy-proven LIP from 9 vertically HIV subtype E-infected pediatric patients. The dominant microscopic feature of LIP demonstrated widespread widening of alveolar septum by mononuclear inflammatory cell infiltrate mainly composed of mature lymphocytes and plasma cells surrounding airways and expanding to the lung interstitium. EBV-encoded RNA (EBER) in situ hybridization, performed from paraffin-embedded lung tissues, revealed positive intranuclear signals in all 9 LIP cases. Interestingly, combined immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization analyses in 6 out of 9 LIP cases revealed 30% to 50% of the Langerhans and related dendritic cells were infected with EBV, whereas <30% of the T and B cells were infected with EBV. These results suggested that a chronic antigenic stimulus of EBV played important roles in the pathogenesis of LIP in these patients. This supports the notion that Langerhans cells (LCs) are more readily infected with EBV, indicating that LCs are reservoirs for EBV in lungs of HIV subtype E-infected pediatric LIP. And possibly LCs may play an important role in the recruitment of inflammatory cell infiltrates, especially T cells into these tissues. In addition, HIV may provide a milieu or microenvironment for the evolution of LIP, which represent an immunologic response to EBV infection. Interactions between LCs and related dendritic cells together with T cells are important for effective HIV and EBV replications. Copyright © 2010 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/50907
ISSN: 15334058
15412016
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