Background: Burn injury induces immunosuppression, which is associated with an increased susceptibility to infection. Our laboratory has demonstrated that burn injury also impairs humoral immunity. We reported that burn injury enhanced expression of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) mRNA and that exogenous TGF-beta further impaired humoral immunity. The objective of this study was to clarify the role of TGF-beta on humoral immunity after burn injury with a neutralizing experiment.
Methods: Twelve BALB/c mice were randomly divided into two groups: sham and burn. Anesthetized mice received a 20% full-thickness burn or sham injury. The murine splenocytes containing 1.5 x 10 cells/mL were cultured with 2.5 microg/mL of lipopolysaccharide with or without 0.5 ng/mL of TGF-beta or 1 microg/mL of anti-TGF-beta neutralizing antibody, if necessary. Concentrations of immunoglobulin (Ig) M in the cell culture supernatant were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the number of IgM-secreting cells in the culture was measured by enzyme-linked immunospot assay.
Results: After 2-day culture, neutralization of TGF-beta dramatically restored IgM synthesis after burn injury. After 5-day culture, however, it restored IgM concentration but failed to restore a number of IgM-secreting cells.
Conclusion: This neutralizing experiment demonstrated that TGF-beta is one of the inhibitors of IgM synthesis after burn injury. However, neutralization of TGF-beta was not enough to completely restore humoral immunity after burn injury. Investigation of the mechanism of impaired IgM synthesis after burn injury should be continued.
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