Background: Allergic rhinitis (AR) impairs quality of life and affects nearly 40% of the Japanese population. Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is the disease-modifying treatment for AR, but requires the selection of a biomarker associate with clinical efficacy in patients with AR who are treated with SLIT. The present study sought to examine objective biomarkers used for assessing the clinical efficacy of SLIT.
Methods: The authors examined the effects of 1 year of SLIT treatment with house dust mites (HDMs) using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and serum from patients with AR. The prevalences of follicular regulatory T (Tfr), type 2 follicular helper T (Tfh2), type 2 helper T (Th2), conventional regulatory T (Treg), and type 1 regulatory T (Tr1) cells were examined by flow cytometry. Serum concentrations of HDM-specific IgA, IgE, and IgG4 antibodies, and HDM-induced production of interleukin (IL) 5 and IL-10 from cultured PBMCs were evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Results: Following 1 year of SLIT, the prevalences of Tfr, conventional Treg, and Tr1 cells were significantly increased, whereas that of Th2 cells and Tfh2 cells were significantly decreased; the serum concentration of HDM-specific IgG4 was significantly increased; and HDM-induced production of IL-5 from PBMCs was significantly decreased, while that of IL-10 was significantly increased. The increase in the prevalence of Tfr cells after SLIT correlated positively with the improvement of clinical symptom scores.
Conclusion: An increase in Tfr cells may play an important role in SLIT, and may be a useful indicator for the clinical efficacy of SLIT.
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