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Polarização de resposta dos macrófagos e suas possíveis implicações na imunopatogênese da Doença de Hansen
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016) SOUSA, Jorge Rodrigues de; QUARESMA, Juarez Antônio Simões; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3350166863853054
Leprosy is a disease that causes changes in the tissue and in the course of the immune response. Macrophages are one of the main cells which participating in the response against M. leprae. These cells undergo a differentiation process, modifying their behavior and polarizing the response between the classical pathway, composed of M1 macrophages that produce pro-inflammatory mediators and the alternative pathway known as restorative pathway having as representative M2 macrophages and their subtypes that produce anti-inflammatory cytokines. In Hansen's disease, there are few studies that discuss the ways of polarization in the spectrum of the disease. In order to understand the behavior of the cell in the polar form soft he disease, this study investigated the ways of macrophage response polarization and its possible implications for Hansen's disease. We used 33 blocks with skin fragments of patients with confirmed diagnosis for the disease according to the Ridley and Jopling criteria. The distribution of cases: 17 were tuberculoid and 16 lepromatous. The immunohistochemical method was used for the investigation of the markers CD68, CD163, arginase 1, iNOS, STAT3, FGF b, TGF-β and cytokines, IL-10, IL-13, IL-22 in skin lesions. The results showed a statistically significant difference among the groups and the expression of CD68, CD163, enzymes, growth factors, cytokines and STAT3 were higher in lepromatous forms when compared tuberculoid form. In the correlation analysis, it was observed the synergism between the response of anti-inflammatory cytokines, growth factors, arginase 1 and CD163 in lepromatous form. In the context of iNOS response in susceptible pole of the disease, the study points to a new approach involving iNOS, STAT3 and IL-22 behavior and this new relationship in Hansen's disease, a statistically significant positive correlation was observed between the markers in the lepromatous form. This study concludes: the markers that compose the response of M1 and M2 macrophages are an alternative for a better understanding of innate immune response, in polar forms of the disease increasing the role of cytokines, enzymes, and receptors in the microbicidal response, repair and suppression in the lepromatous form of the disease.