Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory skin disease with dysfunction of the skin barrier, an abnormal immune response and frequent allergies to environmental antigens like food antigens. Clinical observations suggest that certain diets can influence the course of AD.
Objective: Here we compared the phenotype of food allergen-specific T cells activated through skin or gut allergen exposure to transfer skin inflammation into naïve recipients upon epicutaenous allergen challenge.
Methods: Ovalbumin (OVA) TCR-transgenic mice were treated epicutaneously with OVA or were fed OVA. CD4 T cells from skin lymph nodes or mesenteric lymph nodes were transferred into naïve BALB/c mice, which were challenged with OVA epicutaneously. Skin inflammation was determined by histological parameters. In addition, we analyzed the phenotype of the immune response in lymphoid tissues and in skin tissue.
Results: TCR-transgenic T cells activated through epicutaneous or oral OVA exposure both migrate to skin lymph nodes after adoptive transfer and epicutaenous OVA exposure. AD-like skin inflammation could only be induced by the transfer of epicutaneously primed OVA T cells. Analysis of the immune phenotype demonstrated an IL-22/IL-17A-dominated immune phenotype of skin-pathogenic T cells.
Conclusion: IL-22 seems to be the critical cytokine for the development of AD and is induced in this model by epicutaneous sensitization with OVA.
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