A New Concept of Skin-associated Lymphoid Tissue (SALT) : UVB Light Impaired Cutaneous Immunity Reveals a Prominent Role for Cutaneous Nerves

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• More than 20 years have passed since the concept that the skin has its own associated immune system was first proposed by Streilein. This proposal was advanced in part on evidence that cutaneous contact hypersensitivity (CH) reactions are closely correlated with Langerhans cells (LC). Recent reports have demonstrated that LC have neural connectivity with cutaneous nerve termini containing calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), suggesting that a link exists between innervation and immune responses in the skin. Here we discuss the neural components which have recently been found to be participants in skin-associated lymphoid tissue (SALT). In part, discovery of a functional link between the nervous system and SALT is based on studies in which cutaneous immunity was impaired by ultraviolet-B radiation (UVR). The deleterious effects of UVR on cutaneous immunity iUclude failed CH induction and promotion of hapten-specific tolerance, effects that are mediated by tumor necrosis factor-a and interleukin-10, respectively. The source of these cytokines after UVR appears to be dermal mast cells. Evidence indicates that mast cells are triggered to release these cytokines in response to CGRP, which is released from UVR-damaged cutaneous nerve endings. Moreover, a substance P agonist was able to reverse the deleterious effects of UVR on CH induction, rendering the mice able to develop intense CH. These observations indicate that two cell types not originally included in the SALT concept are critical to the functional integrity of cutaneous immunity: mast cells and cutaneous nerves. We propose that cutaneous nerves dictate whether antigen applied to or arising within skin will lead to sensitivity or tolerance.

• The Keio Journal of Medicineの論文
• 1999-03-01

著者

• Niizeki Hironori

  The Schepens Eye Research Institute And Department Of Dermatology Harvard Medical School

• Alard Pascale

  The Schepens Eye Research Institute And Department Of Dermatology Harvard Medical School

• Wayne Streilein

  The Schepens Eye Research Institute And Department Of Dermatology Harvard Medical School

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