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Title: Obesity may provide pro-ilc3 development inflammatory environment in asthmatic Children
Authors: Wu, Yumin
Yue, Jiawei
Wu, Juncheng
Zhou, Wei
Li, Dapeng
Ding, Kai
Barnie, Prince Amoah
Xu, Xu
Xu, Huaxi
Shi, Weifeng
Issue Date: 6-Dec-2018
Publisher: University of Cape Coast
Abstract: The prevalence of obesity in children has dramatically increased in the last few decades, and obesity has also emerged as an important risk factor for asthma. Innate mechanisms have been shown to be involved in both diseases, particularly through the recently described innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), in which ILC3s have been linked to obesity both in human and in murine models. The aim of this study was to explore whether being overweight in asthmatic children was associated with elevated circulating ILC3 or elevated messenger RNA (mRNA) levels of RORC, IL-17A, and IL-22. Our results showed significantly elevated ILC3 frequencies in overweight asthmatic children compared with non over weight controls based on the detection of Lin CD127 IL-23R + cells by flow cytometry. Moreover, elevated ILC3 frequencies positively correlated with the mRNA expression of RORC which has been identifed as a transcription factor of ILC3s. The relative mRNA expression level of IL-17A was also upregulated in overweight compared to non-overweight children, as was the relative mRNA level of IL-22. However, there were no correlations between ILC3 frequencies or the expressions of RORC, IL-17A, and IL-22 and asthma severity. These results suggested that childhood obesity is an independent factor that is associated with an elevated frequency of circulating ILC3s and higher expressions of RORC, IL-22, and IL-17A
Description: 10p:, ill.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5569
ISSN: 23105496
Appears in Collections:Department of Biomedical & Forensic Sciences

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