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Immunophenotyping to improve the mechanistic understanding of idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury: clinical implications and future directions
- Source :
- Exploration of Digestive Diseases. :56-76
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- Open Exploration Publishing, 2023.
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Abstract
- The late event onset of a fraction of idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) cases and the link observed by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of certain human leucocyte antigen (HLA) alleles with DILI due to specific drugs support the crucial role of the immune system (both innate and adaptive) in the pathogenesis of DILI. Recent advances in both flow and mass cytometry have allowed the profiling of all major immune cell types in a given sample. Therefore, determining the lymphocyte populations in samples from patients with DILI would facilitate the development of specific biomarkers for DILI diagnosis and prognosis. To date, a few studies have explored the immune landscape in DILI. In a recent study of leukocyte immunophenotyping using flow cytometry from the Spanish DILI Registry, an important role of adaptive immune response in DILI is suggested. DILI patients had significantly higher levels of T helper 1 (Th1) cells and activated helper and cytotoxic T cells than healthy controls. Furthermore, the increased expression of negative immune checkpoints and ligands in DILI patients could reflect a restoration of the immune homeostasis. Differences in the profile of cytokines in DILI patients from the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network (DILIN) also suggest an involvement of both innate and adaptive immune systems in DILI development and prognosis. Moreover, several studies based on immunophenotyping of liver infiltrates showed a distinctive pattern of cellular infiltrates in patients with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)-DILI, with lower levels of plasma cells, CD20+ B cells and CD4+ T cells than in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) patients. These pioneering studies highlight the importance of immunophenotyping for the mechanistic understanding of DILI. In this review, available data on immunophenotyping in DILI are gathered, and the potential clinical applications of cutting-edge, novel immunophenotyping techniques are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Atmospheric Science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Computer Networks and Communications
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Biomedical Engineering
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Health Informatics
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
Health Information Management
Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Environmental Chemistry
General Materials Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Waste Management and Disposal
Water Science and Technology
Global and Planetary Change
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Cell Biology
Condensed Matter Physics
Pollution
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Computer Science Applications
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Space and Planetary Science
Developmental Biology
Food Science
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Exploration of Digestive Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6ad76e259bbfa2ade029f8abee59b71c