464 results on '"O'Keeffe, Kate"'
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452. CORPORATE WATCH.
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Rauwald, Christoph, Kiernan, Paul, Borzo, Jeanette, O'Keeffe, Kate, and Becker, Nathan
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BUSINESS enterprises , *PATENT suits - Abstract
This section offers business-related news briefs as of November 2010, including the plan of family investors of Porsche SE to sell the company to Volkswagen, the plan of Grupo Mexicana to resume its service, and the patent suits filed by Motorola Mobility Inc. against Microsoft Corp.
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- 2010
453. CORPORATE WATCH.
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Chon, Gina, Matthews, Robert Guy, Sanders, Peter, Jarzemsky, Matt, O'Keeffe, Kate, Becker, Nathan, Ramsey, Mike, Areddy, James T., and Fletcher, Owen
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CORPORATIONS - Abstract
This section offers corporate news briefs as of September 16, 2010, including the plan by steelmaker Nucor Corp. to establish an iron-making mill in Louisiana, the decision by Boeing Co. to temporarily ground the 787 Dreamliner aircraft and the possibility that Beazar Homes USA Inc. would not meet order expectations for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year.
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- 2010
454. Test-retest reliability of wireless inertial-sensor derived measurements of knee joint kinematics.
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O'Keeffe K, Argent R, Bourke A, Shabani S, Praestgaard J, Muaremi A, Goulding C, Brom M, Scotti C, Walsh LC, and Caulfield B
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- Biomechanical Phenomena, Humans, Knee, Reproducibility of Results, Gait, Knee Joint
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Advances in sensor technology have provided an opportunity to measure gait characteristics using body-worn inertial measurement units (IMUs). Whilst research investigating the validity of IMUs in reporting gait characteristics is extensive, research investigating the reliability of IMUs is limited. This study aimed to investigate the inter-session reliability of wireless IMU derived measures of gait (i.e., knee angle, range of motion) taking multiple test administrators into account. Fifteen healthy volunteers (43 ± 15 years) completed two visits. Within each visit, participants were required to perform two sets of 6 gait trials (6-metre walk tests). IMUs were placed on the participant in 7 locations on the lower limbs and waist. A different test administrator (n = 3) applied the IMUs at each set. At visit 2, this procedure was repeated with the same test administrators as visit 1. Kinematic measures of maximum angle (Knee_Max), minimum angle (Knee_Min), and range of motion (RoM) are reported for the left and right knee. The intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), standard error of measurement (SEM) and minimum detectable change (MDC) are reported to determine IMU reliability. The results confirmed moderate to good inter-session reliability across all features (0.73-0.87). SEM values ranged from 1.21-3.32° and MDC values ranged from 3.37 - 9.21°. Therefore, IMUs appear to be a reliable method to determine inter-session gait characteristics across multiple test administrators.
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- 2022
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455. An Automatic Foot and Shank IMU Synchronization Algorithm: Proof-of-concept.
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Shabani S, Bourke AK, Muaremi A, Praestgaard J, O'Keeffe K, Argent R, Brom M, Scotti C, Caulfield B, and Walsh LC
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- Algorithms, Humans, Leg, Lower Extremity, Foot, Gait
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When using wearable sensors for measurement and analysis of human performance, it is often necessary to integrate and synchronise data from separate sensor systems. This paper describes a synchronization technique between IMUs attached to the shanks and insoles attached at the feet and aims to solve the need to compute the ankle joint angle, which relies on synchronized sensor data. This will additionally enable concurrent analysis using gait kinematic and kinetic features. A proof-of-concept of the algorithm, which relies on cross-correlation of gyroscope sensor data from the shank and foot, to align the sensor systems is demonstrated. The algorithm output is validated against those signals synchronized using manually annotated heel-strike and toe-off ground-truth signal landmarks, identified in both the shank and feet signals using previously published definitions. Results demonstrate that the developed algorithm is capable of synchronizing both sensor systems, based on IMU data from both healthy participants and participants suffering from knee osteoarthritis, with a mean lag time bias of 25.56ms when compared to the ground truth. A proof-of-concept of technique to synchronise IMUs attached to the shanks and insoles attached at the feet is demonstrated and offers an alternative approach to sensor system synchronisation.
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- 2022
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456. BVD seroprevalence in the Irish cattle population as the national BVD programme progresses toward eradication.
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Barrett D, Clarke A, O'Keeffe K, Kellegher P, Comerford J, Lane E, and Byrne AW
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- Animals, Cattle, Female, Humans, Male, Risk Factors, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease epidemiology, Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease prevention & control, Cattle Diseases, Diarrhea Virus 1, Bovine Viral, Diarrhea Viruses, Bovine Viral
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Background: Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) infection remains endemic in many countries worldwide. Ireland, in common with several other European counties, commenced an BVDV eradication programme in the last decade, Managing eradication programmes requires careful monitoring of diseases prevalence and understanding factors associated with disease exposure to ensure eradication programmes remain evidence based and tailored to the evolving epidemiological situation., Methods: In this study, we explore the seroprevalence of BVDV exposure over a four-year period (2017 to 2020) in Ireland from a cohort of animals (n = 6,449) under 30 months of age sampled at slaughter, who were born subsequent to the commencement of a compulsory national eradication programme. Temporal trends and risk factor analysis were undertaken using multilevel logit regression models., Results: There was a declining temporal trend in seroprevalence over the sample years of the study, and risk varied at both county- and herd-levels. The unadjusted marginal animal-level seroprevalence reduced from 9.1% in 2017 (95%; CI: 7.2-10.9) to 3.9% in 2020 (95%; CI: 3.2-4.6). The final model suggested that seropositivity in study cattle was strongly related with the presence of a PI animal in the herd during the year of the animal's birth, and to a lesser extent the status of the herd from which the animal was slaughtered. The risk of seroconversion increased significantly with increasing size of the herd of slaughter, in females relative to males, and in dairy relative to suckler herds., Conclusions: This study has shown that the BVDV serostatus of cattle at slaughter is correlated to the BVD infection history of the herd into which the animal was born and the herd from which it was slaughtered. Herd location, increased herd size and dairy production were associated with increased probability of serconversion. These findings will be used to inform the targeting of surveillance strategies once BVDV freedom has been achieved., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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- 2022
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457. Self-Selected Motivational Music Enhances Physical Performance in Normoxia and Hypoxia in Young Healthy Males.
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O'Keeffe K, Dean J, Hodder S, and Lloyd A
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Humans exposed to hypoxia are susceptible to physiological and psychological impairment. Music has ergogenic effects through enhancing psychological factors such as mood, emotion, and cognition. This study aimed to investigate music as a tool for mitigating the performance decrements observed in hypoxia. Thirteen males (mean ± SD; 24 ± 4 years) completed one familiarization session and four experimental trials; (1) normoxia (sea level, 0.209 FiO
2 ) and no music; (2) normoxia (0.209 FiO2 ) with music; (3) normobaric hypoxia (∼3800 m, 0.13 FiO2 ) and no music; and (4) normobaric hypoxia (0.13 FiO2 ) with music. Experimental trials were completed at 21°C with 50% relative humidity. Music was self-selected prior to the familiarization session. Each experimental trial included a 15-min time trial on an arm bike, followed by a 60-s isometric maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) of the biceps brachii. Supramaximal nerve stimulation quantified central and peripheral fatigue with voluntary activation (VA%) calculated using the doublet interpolation method. Average power output (W) was reduced with a main effect of hypoxia ( p = 0.02) and significantly increased with a main effect of music ( p = 0.001). When combined the interaction was additive ( p = 0.87). Average MVC force (N) was reduced in hypoxia ( p = 0.03) but VA% of the biceps brachii was increased with music ( p = 0.02). Music reduced subjective scores of mental effort, breathing discomfort, and arm discomfort in hypoxia ( p < 0.001). Music increased maximal physical exertion through enhancing neural drive and diminishing detrimental mental processes, enhancing performance in normoxia (6.3%) and hypoxia (6.4%)., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2021 O’Keeffe, Dean, Hodder and Lloyd.)- Published
- 2021
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458. Mental fatigue independent of boredom and sleepiness does not impact self-paced physical or cognitive performance in normoxia or hypoxia.
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O'Keeffe K, Raccuglia G, Hodder S, and Lloyd A
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- Adult, Affect, Altitude, Boredom, Exercise Test methods, Humans, Male, Motivation, Muscle Contraction, Muscle Fatigue physiology, Muscle, Skeletal metabolism, Muscle, Skeletal physiology, Oxygen Consumption, Self Report, Sleepiness, Young Adult, Cognition physiology, Exercise physiology, Exercise psychology, Hypoxia physiopathology, Mental Fatigue physiopathology
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This study investigated the individual and combined effects of mental fatigue (MF) and hypoxia (HYP) on physical and cognitive performance. Fifteen males (24 ± 3 years) completed one familiarization session and six experimental trials, including: 1) normoxia (0.209 FiO
2 ) and no MF; 2) normoxia (0.209 FiO2 ) with MF; 3) mild normobaric HYP (0.13 FiO2 ) and no MF; 4) mild normobaric HYP (0.13 FiO2 ) with MF; 5) severe normobaric HYP (0.10 FiO2 ) and no MF; 6) severe normobaric HYP (0.10 FiO2 ) with MF. Each condition included a 15-min self-paced time trial, followed by a 60-s isometric maximal voluntary contraction of the biceps brachii. MF was induced using a 16-min individualized cognitive test prior to exercise performance. Following each time trial, participants performed the Tower of Hanoi cognitive test. A main effect of HYP was observed on average power output, oxygen consumption and muscle oxygenation (P ≤ 0.004), with no effect of MF (P ≥ 0.599). Voluntary activation of the biceps brachii was also reduced in HYP (68.42 ± 5.64%, P = 0.039). No effect of MF or HYP was observed on cognitive performance (P ≥ 0.138). HYP impacted physical performance, whilst MF had no effect on self-paced physical or cognitive performance.- Published
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459. Manipulation of Autophagy and Apoptosis Facilitates Intracellular Survival of Staphylococcus aureus in Human Neutrophils.
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Mulcahy ME, O'Brien EC, O'Keeffe KM, Vozza EG, Leddy N, and McLoughlin RM
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- Humans, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission, Neutrophils ultrastructure, Apoptosis, Autophagy, Neutrophils microbiology, Staphylococcus aureus ultrastructure
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Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) are critical for first line innate immune defence against Staphylococcus aureus . Mature circulating PMN maintain a short half-life ending in constitutive apoptotic cell death. This makes them unlikely candidates as a bacterial intracellular niche. However, there is significant evidence to suggest that S. aureus can survive intracellularly within PMN and this contributes to persistence and dissemination during infection. The precise mechanism by which S. aureus parasitizes these cells remains to be established. Herein we propose a novel mechanism by which S. aureus subverts both autophagy and apoptosis in PMN in order to maintain an intracellular survival niche during infection. Intracellular survival of S. aureus within primary human PMN was associated with an accumulation of the autophagic flux markers LC3-II and p62, while inhibition of the autophagy pathway led to a significant reduction in intracellular survival of bacteria. This intracellular survival of S. aureus was coupled with a delay in neutrophil apoptosis as well as increased expression of several anti-apoptotic factors. Importantly, blocking autophagy in infected PMN partially restored levels of apoptosis to that of uninfected PMN, suggesting a connection between the autophagic and apoptotic pathways during intracellular survival. These results provide a novel mechanism for S. aureus intracellular survival and suggest that S. aureus may be subverting crosstalk between the autophagic and apoptosis pathways in order to maintain an intracellular niche within human PMN., (Copyright © 2020 Mulcahy, O’Brien, O’Keeffe, Vozza, Leddy and McLoughlin.)
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- 2020
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460. A comparison of methods used for inducing mental fatigue in performance research: individualised, dual-task and short duration cognitive tests are most effective.
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O'Keeffe K, Hodder S, and Lloyd A
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Cognition, Mental Fatigue psychology, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time
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Despite research indicating the negative impact that mental fatigue has on physical and cognitive performance, whether this is a result of mental fatigue or a state of under-arousal remains unclear. The current research aimed to explore the effectiveness of the methods being used to induce mental fatigue. Twelve participants attended six sessions in which two cognitive tests, the AX-continuous performance test (AX-CPT) and the TloadDback test, were compared for their effectiveness in inducing mental fatigue. Both tests were set at a standard processing speed (1.2 ms) for two conditions, and a further condition involved the individualisation of the TloadDback test. Participants presented significantly higher physiological and psychological arousal ( p < 0.05) in the individualised dual-task test compared to the AX-CPT. The individualised TloadDback test is a more effective method of inducing mental fatigue compared to the AX-CPT, as it sustains physiological arousal whilst inducing measurable reductions in mental resources. Practitioner summary: Mental fatigue negatively impacts physical and cognitive performance. It is unclear whether the current methods being used to induce mental fatigue are effective. This study compared different methods and confirmed that short, individualised and dual-task tests are most effective for inducing mental fatigue whilst maintaining arousal.
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461. Manipulation of Autophagy in Phagocytes Facilitates Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection.
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O'Keeffe KM, Wilk MM, Leech JM, Murphy AG, Laabei M, Monk IR, Massey RC, Lindsay JA, Foster TJ, Geoghegan JA, and McLoughlin RM
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- Animals, Bacteremia metabolism, Bacteremia microbiology, Blotting, Western, Bone Marrow Cells microbiology, Cells, Cultured, Disease Models, Animal, Flow Cytometry, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Microscopy, Confocal, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Staphylococcal Infections metabolism, Staphylococcal Infections microbiology, Staphylococcus aureus immunology, Autophagy physiology, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Dendritic Cells microbiology, Staphylococcal Infections immunology, Trans-Activators metabolism
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The capacity for intracellular survival within phagocytes is likely a critical factor facilitating the dissemination of Staphylococcus aureus in the host. To date, the majority of work on S. aureus-phagocyte interactions has focused on neutrophils and, to a lesser extent, macrophages, yet we understand little about the role played by dendritic cells (DCs) in the direct killing of this bacterium. Using bone marrow-derived DCs (BMDCs), we demonstrate for the first time that DCs can effectively kill S. aureus but that certain strains of S. aureus have the capacity to evade DC (and macrophage) killing by manipulation of autophagic pathways. Strains with high levels of Agr activity were capable of causing autophagosome accumulation, were not killed by BMDCs, and subsequently escaped from the phagocyte, exerting significant cytotoxic effects. Conversely, strains that exhibited low levels of Agr activity failed to accumulate autophagosomes and were killed by BMDCs. Inhibition of the autophagic pathway by treatment with 3-methyladenine restored the bactericidal effects of BMDCs. Using an in vivo model of systemic infection, we demonstrated that the ability of S. aureus strains to evade phagocytic cell killing and to survive temporarily within phagocytes correlated with persistence in the periphery and that this effect is critically Agr dependent. Taken together, our data suggest that strains of S. aureus exhibiting high levels of Agr activity are capable of blocking autophagic flux, leading to the accumulation of autophagosomes. Within these autophagosomes, the bacteria are protected from phagocytic killing, thus providing an intracellular survival niche within professional phagocytes, which ultimately facilitates dissemination., (Copyright © 2015 O'Keeffe et al.)
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- 2015
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462. Correction: Staphylococcus aureus Infection of mice expands a population of memory γδ T cells that are protective against subsequent infection.
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Murphy AG, O'Keeffe KM, Lalor SJ, Maher BM, Mills KH, and McLoughlin RM
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- 2015
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463. Staphylococcus aureus infection of mice expands a population of memory γδ T cells that are protective against subsequent infection.
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Murphy AG, O'Keeffe KM, Lalor SJ, Maher BM, Mills KH, and McLoughlin RM
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- Adoptive Transfer, Animals, Cytokines genetics, Cytokines metabolism, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Immunity, Innate, Interleukin-17 biosynthesis, Interleukin-17 genetics, Male, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Peritonitis immunology, Peritonitis microbiology, Signal Transduction, Staphylococcal Infections genetics, Staphylococcal Infections metabolism, Staphylococcal Infections therapy, Immunologic Memory, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta metabolism, Staphylococcal Infections immunology, Staphylococcus aureus immunology, T-Lymphocyte Subsets immunology, T-Lymphocyte Subsets metabolism
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The development of vaccines against Staphylococcus aureus has consistently failed in clinical trials, likely due to inefficient induction of cellular immunity. T cell-derived IL-17 is one of the few known correlates of antistaphylococcoal immunity, conferring protection against S. aureus infections through its ability to promote phagocytic cell effector functions. A comprehensive understanding of the discrete T cell subsets critical for site-specific IL-17-mediated bacterial clearance will therefore be necessary to inform the development of vaccines that efficiently target cellular immunity. In this study, we have identified a population of CD44+ CD27- memory γδ T cells, expanded upon infection of C57BL/6 mice with S. aureus, which produce high levels of IL-17 and mediate enhanced bacterial clearance upon reinfection with the bacterium. These cells are comprised largely of the Vγ4+ subset and accumulate at the site of infection subsequent to an initial Vγ1.1+ and Vγ2+ T cell response. Moreover, these Vγ4+ T cells are retained in the peritoneum and draining mediastinal lymph nodes for a prolonged period following bacterial clearance. In contrast to its critical requirement for γδ T cell activation during the primary infection, IL-1 signaling was dispensable for activation and expansion of memory γδ T cells upon re-exposure to S. aureus. Our findings demonstrate that a γδ T cell memory response can be induced upon exposure to S. aureus, in a fashion analogous to that associated with classical αβ T cells, and suggest that induction of IL-17-expressing γδ T cells may be an important property of a protective vaccine against S. aureus.
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- 2014
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464. Nlrp-3-driven interleukin 17 production by γδT cells controls infection outcomes during Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection.
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Maher BM, Mulcahy ME, Murphy AG, Wilk M, O'Keeffe KM, Geoghegan JA, Lavelle EC, and McLoughlin RM
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- Animals, Carrier Proteins genetics, Interleukin-17 biosynthesis, Interleukin-17 metabolism, Interleukin-1beta metabolism, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein, Neutrophils immunology, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta metabolism, Receptors, Interleukin-1 deficiency, Receptors, Interleukin-1 genetics, Signal Transduction immunology, Staphylococcus aureus immunology, T-Lymphocytes metabolism, Carrier Proteins metabolism, Interleukin-17 immunology, Staphylococcal Infections immunology, Surgical Wound Infection immunology, T-Lymphocytes immunology
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Recent work has identified T cells and the cytokines they produce as important correlates of immune protection during Staphylococcus aureus infections through the ability of these T cells to regulate local neutrophil responses. However, the specific T-cell subsets that are involved in coordinating protection at distinct sites of infection remains to be established. In this study, we identify for the first time an important role for γδT cells in controlling S. aureus surgical site infection (SSI). γδT cells are recruited to the wound site following S. aureus challenge, where they represent the primary source of interleukin 17 (IL-17), with a small contribution from other non-γδT cells. The IL-17 response is entirely dependent upon IL-1 receptor signaling. Using IL-17 receptor-deficient mice, we demonstrate that IL-17 is required to control bacterial clearance during S. aureus SSI. However, we demonstrate a strain-dependent requirement for γδT cells in this process due to the differential abilities of individual strains to activate IL-1β production. IL-1β processing relies upon activation of the Nlrp3 inflammasome complex, and we demonstrate that Nlrp3-deficient and IL-1 receptor-deficient mice have an impaired ability to control S. aureus SSI due to reduced production of IL-17 by γδT cells at the site of infection. Given that IL-17 has been identified as an important correlate of immune protection during S. aureus infection, it is vital that the unique cellular sources of this cytokine and mechanisms inducing its activation are identified at distinct sites of infection. Our study demonstrates that while IL-17 may be critically important for mediating immune protection during S. aureus SSI, the relative contribution of γδT cells to these protective effects may be strain dependent.
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