Vitamin E supplementation modulates cytokine production by thymocytes during murine AIDS |
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Authors: | Yuejian Wang Dennis S Huang Ronald R Watson PhD |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, 85724, Tucson, AZ, (USA) 2. Nutritional Sciences Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., USA 3. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., USA
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Abstract: | Female C57BL/6 mice were infected with LP-BM5 retrovirus, causing murine AIDS, which is functionally similar to human AIDS. Retrovirus infection targeted the thymus, producing altered T cell differentiation via the dysregulation of thymocyte cytokine production. Human AIDS causes vitamin deficiencies, therefore the effects of dietary vitamin E supplementation were determined on the kinetics of cytokine production by concanavalin A-stimulated thymocytes in uninfected normal mice and mice with murine AIDS. Dietary supplementation, with a 15-fold increase in vitamin E (160 IU/1) in the liquid diet (National Research Council), modulated interleukin-2 (IL) production in both uninfected mice and retrovirus-infected mice. Vitamin E significantly reduced the level of IL-4 secretion in the uninfected mice at 4 and 8 weeks, but not at 12 and 16 weeks. It also significantly reduced IL-4 production, elevated by retrovirus infection. Vitamin E significantly reduced IL-6, and interferon-γ production increased in murine AIDS. The effects of dietary vitamin E on concanavalin A-induced proliferation of thymocytes were consistent with the finding of changes in IL-2 secretion. No effects of dietary vitamin E on thymus weight were observed in uninfected or retrovirus-infected mice, whereas vitamin E significantly increased serum and thymic vitamin E concentration, which had been reduced by retrovirus infection. These data indicate that dietary vitamin E supplementation can modulate cytokine production by thymocytes, affecting T cell differentiation, especially during retrovirus-induced immune dysfunction. |
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