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Mega-dose Vitamin C modulates T cell functions in Balb/c mice only when administered during T cell activation
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- Issue Date
- 2005-03-26
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Citation
- Immunol Lett. 2005 Apr 15;98(1):63-72.
- Keywords
- Animals ; Antioxidants/*pharmacology ; Ascorbic Acid/*pharmacology ; Cell Proliferation ; Cytokines/secretion ; Dinitrofluorobenzene/immunology ; Drug Hypersensitivity/immunology ; Hemocyanin/immunology ; Hypersensitivity, Delayed/chemically induced/immunology ; Immunoglobulin E/immunology ; Immunoglobulin G/immunology ; Inflammation/drug therapy ; Lymphocyte Activation/*drug effects/immunology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; T-Lymphocytes/*drug effects/immunology/secretion ; Time Factors
- Abstract
- Previously we reported that a mega-dose of Vitamin C enhanced the initial stage of delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction in Balb/c mice. In this study its effects were further evaluated as follows. Mice were administered Vitamin C intraperitoneally at 0.625 mg/day or at 5mg/day for variable days before, during, or after being sensitized with DNFB. T cells were isolated in each group and examined. When stimulated antigen-specifically or non-specifically in vitro, mice showed elevated thymidine uptake and a shift of cytokine secretion profiles toward Th1, i.e., elevated levels IL-2, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, and lowered level of the Th2 cytokine IL-4, only when Vitamin C was administered during sensitization. T cells from those mice administered Vitamin C before sensitization or after challenge showed the same T cell properties as those from PBS-treated mice. Mice were also given 0.625 mg/day of Vitamin C during primary and/or secondary immunizations with KLH and secondary specific antibody titers in sera were measured. The total specific antibody titer was lowered in Vitamin C-treated animals whenever treatments were administered, and this was entirely attributed to decreased levels of IgG1 and IgE antibodies. Based on these results, we suggest that an exogenously administered mega-dose of Vitamin C shifts immunity in Balb/c mouse toward Th1 and that these affects occur only when Vitamin C is administered during T cell activation.
- ISSN
- 0165-2478 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15790510
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/24760
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