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Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii
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Vascular endothelial growth factor-activated basophils in asthmatics

Krzysztof Gomułka
1
,
Jerzy Liebhart
1
,
Andrzej Lange
2, 3
,
Wojciech Mędrala
1

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Pneumology and Allergology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
  2. Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
  3. Lower Silesian Cell Transplant Centre with the National Bank of Bone Marrow Donors, Wroclaw, Poland
Adv Dermatol Allergol 2020; XXXVII (4): 584–589
Online publish date: 2020/06/25
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Introduction
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an angiogenic cytokine and a potential stimulator of permeability and lung neovascularization in asthmatics. It also plays an important role in the development of airway remodelling and in activation of many cells, including basophils.

Aim
To reveal the possible role of VEGF in the activation of basophils in asthmatics – subgroups with and without irreversible bronchoconstriction. Protein CD203c on the basophils surface was used as the activation marker. To define the possible pathway of basophils VEGF-activation, the influence of a genetic factor (polymorphism del18/ins -2549 -2567 in the VEGF-promoter region) was also considered.

Material and methods
Our study involved 82 patients with asthma (40 patients without and 42 patients with irreversible bronchoconstriction) and a group of 40 controls. The flow cytometric methods with anti-CD203c in the samples of basophils with increasing concentrations of VEGF was used for analysis of their activity. Genotyping for VEGF-promoter region was performed by PCR-based methods.

Results
Patients with asthma and del/del genotype showed more significant differences in the basophils activation after stimulation with increasing concentrations of VEGF than asthmatics with ins/ins and ins/del genotype (p = 0.023) and controls with del/del genotype (p = 0.0006).

Conclusions
Raised basophils VEGF-activation is characteristic for examined patients with asthma and might be associated with presence of polymorphism del18/ins -2549 -2567 in the VEGF-promoter region. Furthermore, it may contribute to the development of airways remodelling – this pathway has not been considered yet.

keywords:

asthma, basophils, CD-203c, del18, vascular endothelial growth factor

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