Advances in research on the effects of tolerance cells on the treatment of autoimmune thyroiditis
10.11855/j.issn.0577-7402.2020.07.18
- VernacularTitle: 致耐受性细胞对自身免疫性甲状腺炎的治疗作用研究进展
- Author:
Zi-Yu REN
1
Author Information
1. Department of Endocrinology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Autoimmune thyroiditis;
Mesenchymal stem cells;
Regulatory T cells;
Tolerogenic dendritic cells;
] tolerogenic cells
- From:
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army
2020;45(7):781-785
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
[Abstract] Tolerance is a state in which the human body is less responsive to changes in internal environmental status caused by drugs or other factors. Tolerance is a biological phenomenon, a natural consequence of the action of drugs or chemical factors. Altered organismal tolerance status often leads to the development of multiple autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) is a particular type of autoimmune disease, and is exactly the result of an altered immune tolerance of the thyroid gland to a series of "redundant" antigen-antibody binding reactions that produce specific or non-specific inflammation leading to tissue destruction of the thyroid gland. In recent years, a variety of somatic cell therapies have been developed for the purpose of improving the body's tolerance, partially used in the clinical treatment of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, etc. Such somatic cells that can regulate tolerance are called tolerogenic cells. The present paper will focus mainly on the specific autoimmune diseases such as AIT, discuss the promising therapeutic implications of tolerogenic cells for this group of diseases, and provide a summary of relevant studies. Hopefully, it will provide new research directions for the treatment of the disease.
