Changes of cytokine expression profile in patients with hand, foot and mouth disease caused by non-EV-A71 enteroviruses
10.3760/cma.j.cn112866-20210903-00157
- VernacularTitle:非EV-A71肠道病毒感染引起的手足口病患者细胞因子表达谱变化
- Author:
Hengyun GUAN
1
;
Chunrong WANG
;
Lanzheng LIU
;
Huailong ZHAO
;
Guoliang YANG
;
Hongqi CHENG
Author Information
1. 济南市疾病预防控制中心,济南 250021
- Keywords:
Hand, foot and mouth disease;
Enteroviruses;
Cytokine;
Liquid chip
- From:
Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology
2022;36(5):557-563
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To elucidate the changes of cytokine expression profiles in hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) patients infected with non-EV-A71 enteroviruses in Jinan city, and explore the characteristics of cytokines expression.Methods:The serum samples of acute and convalescent phases were collected from non-EV-A71 enterovirus-infected HFMD patients in Jinan from 2014 to 2017. The serum samples of healthy subjects were collected as control group. The Bio-plex liquid chip platform was used for high-throughput detection of 27 cytokines. GraphPad Prism and SPSS 22.0 were used for description and statistical analysis.Results:Twenty-two serum cytokines significantly changed in non-EV-A71 infected patients, including 11 kinds of interleukin (IL), 5 kinds of chemokines, 2 kinds of growth factors, granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), interferon-γ, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). There were 21 kinds (mean ranks 17.06-19.00 pg/ml vs 5.50-8.80 pg/ml, P < 0.05) and 20 kinds (mean ranks 16.41-19.00 pg/ml vs 5.50-9.90 pg/ml, P < 0.05) of cytokines expression in acute stage and convalescent stage respectively were higher than those in healthy control group for coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16) infected patients, and GM-CSF expression (mean ranks 9.65 pg/ml vs 21.40 pg/ml, 9.59 pg/ml vs 21.50 pg/ml, P < 0.05) were both lower than those in healthy control group. For HFMD patients infected CV-A6, there were 19 kinds (mean ranks 11.92-13.50 pg/ml vs 5.50-6.45 pg/ml, P < 0.05) and 21 kinds (mean ranks 12.00-13.50 pg/ml vs 5.50-6.40pg/ml, P < 0.05) of cytokines expression with acute and convalescent stage respectively were higher than those in healthy control group. GM-CSF expression decreased only in acute phase (mean ranks 5.00 pg/ml vs 10.60 pg/ml, P < 0.05) compared with healthy control group. Double serum analysis showed that interleukin 6 (22.79pg/ml vs 35.88 pg/ml) and interferon-induced protein 10 (IFNγ -induced protein 10) (793.56 pg/ml vs 2 157.32 pg/ml) expression in patients with CV-A16 infection during convalescent stage were lower than that in acute stage; IL-7 (3.13 pg/ml vs 1.165 pg/ml), IL-15 (27.84 pg/ml vs 16.005 pg/ml) and regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) (22 605.96 pg/ml vs 7 040.90 pg/ml) expression in patients with CV-A6 infection during convalescent stage increased compared with the acute stage. Conclusions:There are extensive changes in cytokine expression profile in HFMD patients with non-EV-A71 enterovirus infection. Different pathogens infection and different clinical course of HFMD have different characteristics of cytokine expression. These findings could provide scientific data for finding indicators that are meaningful for disease progression, clinical diagnosis and immunotherapy.