Establishment of Experimental Eosinophilic Vasculitis by IgE-Mediated Cutaneous Reverse Passive Arthus Reaction

AUTOR(ES)

Ishii, Takayuki

FONTE

American Society for Investigative Pathology

RESUMO

Prominent eosinophil infiltration is a characteristic of some forms of vasculitis, such as Churg-Strauss syndrome, also known as allergic granulomatous vasculitis. In the current study, we established a mouse model of cutaneous eosinophilic vasculitis by the cutaneous reverse passive Arthus reaction using IgE injection instead of IgG. Wild-type C57BL/6 mice were injected with IgE anti-trinitrophenyl antibodies, followed immediately by intravenous administration of trinitrophenyl bovine serum albumin. IgE-mediated immune complex challenge induced substantial hemorrhage with marked infiltration of eosinophils in which neutrophils, mast cells, and macrophages were also mixed. This finding contrasted remarkably with the neutrophil-dominant infiltration pattern in IgG-mediated immune complex challenge. In the lesion, the expression level of monocyte chemotactic protein-3 was increased, and anti-monocyte chemotactic protein-3 treatment resulted in a significant but incomplete blockade of eosinophil recruitment. Furthermore, mice lacking E-selectin, P-selectin, L-selectin, or intercellular adhesion molecule-1, as well as wild-type mice that received anti-vascular cell adhesion molecule-1-blocking antibodies were assessed for the IgE-mediated Arthus reaction. After 24 hours, the loss of P-selectin resulted in a significant reduction in eosinophil accumulation compared with both wild-type mice and other mouse mutants. Collectively, the Fc class of immunoglobulins, which forms these immune complexes, critically determines the disease manifestation of vasculitis. The IgE-mediated cutaneous reverse passive Arthus reaction may serve as an experimental model for cutaneous eosinophilic infiltration in vasculitis as well as in other diseases.

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