Innate Lymphoid Cell-Dependent Airway Epithelial and Inflammatory Responses to Inhaled Ozone: A New Paradigm in Pathogenesis.
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| Abstract |
Epidemiological associations have been made between the new onset of childhood rhinitis/asthma and exposures to elevated ambient levels of ozone, a commonly encountered gaseous air pollutant. Our laboratory was the first to find that mice repeatedly exposed to ozone develop nasal type 2 immunity and eosinophilic rhinitis with mucous cell metaplasia. More recently, we have found that these ozone-induced upper airway alterations are mediated by group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) and not by T and B cells that are important in adaptive immune responses typically associated with allergic rhinitis and asthma. Furthermore, repeated exposures of mice to ozone cause ILC2-mediated type 2 immunity and airway pathology in the lungs, like those found in the nasal airways. Our recent findings in ozone-exposed mice complement and extend previous reports of nonallergic nasal airway disease in ozone-exposed rats and nonhuman primates. Overall, these experimental results in laboratory animals suggest a plausible ILC2-dependent paradigm for the toxicologic pathobiology that underlies the development of nonallergic rhinitis/asthma in children who live in environments with repeated occurrences of high ambient concentrations of ozone.
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| Authors | Jack R Harkema, James G Wagner |
| Journal | Toxicologic pathology (Toxicol Pathol) Vol. 47 Issue 8 Pg. 993-1003 (12 2019) ISSN: 1533-1601 [Electronic] United States |
| PMID | 31537180 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Review) |
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