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. 2002 Oct;3(10):944-50.
doi: 10.1038/ni833. Epub 2002 Sep 3.

B cells regulate autoimmunity by provision of IL-10

Simon Fillatreau  1 , Claire H Sweenie, Mandy J McGeachy, David Gray, Stephen M Anderton
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B cells regulate autoimmunity by provision of IL-10

Simon Fillatreau et al. Nat Immunol. 2002 Oct.

Abstract

To assess the importance of B cell control of T cell differentiation, we analyzed the course of the T helper type 1 (T(H)1)-driven disease experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice with an altered B cell compartment. We found that recovery was dependent on the presence of autoantigen-reactive B cells. B cells from recovered mice produced interleukin 10 (IL-10) in response to autoantigen. With a bone marrow chimeric system, we generated mice in which IL-10 deficiency was restricted to B cells but not T cells. In the absence of IL-10 production by B cells, the pro-inflammatory type 1 immune response persisted and mice did not recover. These data show that B cell-derived IL-10 plays a key role in controlling autoimmunity.

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