RGD Reference Report - Targeted disruption of the chemokine eotaxin partially reduces antigen-induced tissue eosinophilia. - Rat Genome Database

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Targeted disruption of the chemokine eotaxin partially reduces antigen-induced tissue eosinophilia.

Authors: Rothenberg, ME  MacLean, JA  Pearlman, E  Luster, AD  Leder, P 
Citation: Rothenberg ME, etal., J Exp Med. 1997 Feb 17;185(4):785-90.
RGD ID: 4145451
Pubmed: PMID:9034156   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC2196140   (View Article at PubMed Central)

The chemokines are a large group of chemotactic cytokines that regulate leukocyte trafficking and have recently been shown to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus entry into cells. Eotaxin is a C-C chemokine implicated in the recruitment of eosinophils in a variety of inflammatory disorders and, unlike all other eosinophil chemoattractants, is eosinophil specific. However, given the large number of chemoattractants that have activities on eosinophils, it is unclear whether eotaxin has an important role in vivo. Furthermore, it remains unclear why there is constitutive expression of eotaxin in healthy states in the absence of eosinophilic inflammation. To begin to determine the significance of eotaxin at baseline and during eosinophil-mediated disease processes, we have used targeted gene disruption to generate mice that are deficient in eotaxin. Such mice demonstrate that eotaxin enhances the magnitude of the early (but not late) eosinophil recruitment after antigen challenge in models of asthma and stromal keratitis. Surprisingly, a role for eotaxin in regulating the constitutive number of eosinophils in the peripheral circulation is also demonstrated. These results indicate a contributory role for eotaxin in the generation of peripheral blood and antigen-induced tissue eosinophilia.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
asthma  ISOCcl11 (Mus musculus)4145451; 4145451 RGD 
asthma  IMP 4145451 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Ccl11  (C-C motif chemokine ligand 11)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Ccl11  (C-C motif chemokine ligand 11)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
CCL11  (C-C motif chemokine ligand 11)


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