Macrophage polarization in interstitial lung diseases

Paweł Wojtan; Michał Mierzejewski; Iwona Osińska; Joanna Domagała-Kulawik

doi:10.5114/ceji.2016.60990

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Central European Journal of Immunology

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Experimental immunology

Macrophage polarization in interstitial lung diseases

Paweł Wojtan

,

Michał Mierzejewski

,

Iwona Osińska

,

Joanna Domagała-Kulawik

(Cent Eur J Immunol 2016; 41 (2): 159-164)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ceji.2016.60990

Online publish date: 2016/07/15

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The role of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf) examination in differential diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) was established. Currently, functional polarization into M1 (pro-inflammatory) and M2 (anti-inflammatory) subpopulations is emphasized.

The aim of our study was to compare the proportion of M1 and M2 in BALf of patients with different ILD.

BALf samples were collected from 75 ILD patients: sarcoidosis (SA, 36), hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP, 10), non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP, 8), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF, 6) and other ILD (15). Phenotyping was performed by immunocytochemistry with anti-CD40 and CD163 antibodies (for M1 and M2, respectively).

For both, CD40 and CD163, three populations of cells have been specified: small cells with strong (+++), large cells with weak (+) and cells with no (–) reaction. Due to lack of statistically significant differences between patients with HP, NSIP and IPF, they were classified into a common group and compared to the group of patients with sarcoidosis. The median proportion of macrophage population was as follows: for CD40: 61%, 35%, 2% in patients with SA and 49%, 47%, 3% in patients with other ILD and for CD163: 55%, 35%, 5% in SA and 53%, 43%, 1% in ILD patients, respectively. We found a significantly higher proportion of M1 in SA when compared with other ILD.

Our study showed no evidence of defined polarization of alveolar macrophages in different types of interstitial lung diseases. However, we emphasized the role of CD40 positive cells in sarcoidosis and the role of CD163 positive cells in fibrotic diffuse lung diseases.

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Macrophage polarization in interstitial lung diseases

Paweł Wojtan , Michał Mierzejewski , Iwona Osińska , Joanna Domagała-Kulawik

sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease, BAL, macrophages M1, macrophages M2, CD40, CD163

Paweł Wojtan

,

Michał Mierzejewski

,

Iwona Osińska

,

Joanna Domagała-Kulawik