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Infections with herpesviruses
Human roseoloviruses
- Proposed to cause autoimmune disease
- Defining a causal relationship and mechanism has been difficult
- Ubiquitous nature of infection
- Development of autoimmunity long after acute infection
Murine roseolovirus (MRV)
- Is highly related to human roseoloviruses
- Neonatal MRV infection induced autoimmune gastritis (AIG) in adult mice
- In the absence of ongoing infection.
- MRV-induced AIG was dependent on replication during the neonatal period
- Was CD4+ T cell and IL-17 dependent.
- Neonatal MRV infection
- Associated with development of a wide array of autoantibodies in adult mice
- Reduced medullary thymic epithelial cell numbers, thymic dendritic cell numbers, and thymic expression of AIRE and tissue-restricted antigens
- In addition to increasing thymocyte apoptosis at the stage of negative selection
- Strongly suggest that infection with a roseolovirus early in life
- Results in disruption of central tolerance and development of autoimmune disease.
- Increased intestinal permeability (“leaky gut”)
- Gut dysbiosis
- Food intolerances
- Infections (including H. pylori)
- Long-term use of reflux medications like proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) (evidence is mixed)
- drruscio.com/autoimmune-atrophic-gastritis/
Helicobacter pylori Inducing Autoimmune Gastritis
- Infection with Hp can trigger an autoimmune response within the gastric mucosa
- Around 65% of Hp-infected individuals have detectable levels of autoreactive gastric antibodies (Negrini et al., 1996).
- Were most frequently specific to parietal cells
- Increase in autoantibodies positively correlated with gastric disease severity (Negrini et al., 1996; Faller et al., 1997).
- Hp-infected people with serum-detectable gastric autoantibodies
- Showed increased corpus atrophy,
- Decreased stomach acid production,
- Increases in routine AIG diagnostic markers
- Hp infection to be associated with a variety of other autoimmune diseases (Smyk et al., 2014).
Molecular mimicry has been suggested
- Major Hp surface protein, beta urease
- 72% sequence homology with the beta chain of the parietal cell specific H+/K+ ATPase
- One possible antigen activating Hp effector cells against gastric tissue (Uibo et al., 1995)
- In Hp infected patients who developed AIG
- CD4+ T cells were isolated from gastric biopsies
- Several clones were cross-reactive against peptides from parietal cells and Hp lysate
- Stimulation in the presence of both antigens induced T cells to produce large and equivalent amounts of IFN-gamma (Smythies et al., 2000; D'Elios et al., 1997; D'Elios et al., 2001)
- Cross-reactive cells were differentiated into the
- Th1 cells typically present in both AIG and Hp-induced gastritis
Hp infection epithelial cells increase antigen presentation capabilities
- By upregulating MHC II molecules on their surface
- Increasing the possibility for self-peptide presentation (Archimandritis et al., 2000)
Pernicious anemia
- Around 60% of pernicious anemia (PA) patients have serologic and/or histologic evidence of Hp infection
- Close to the frequency found in the general population (Annibale et al., 2000; Presotto et al., 2003)
- Prevalence among PA patients does not show a correlation between Hp infection and PA
- PA patients have a lower frequency of Hp positivity than the general population
- Atrophy endured from AIG may deter Hp colonization as even fewer PA patients with severe gastric body atrophy show evidence of infection (Pérez-Pérez, 1997; Presotto et al., 2003)
- Study by Saenz et al.
- In Hp-infected mice an atrophy-induced increase in gastric pH
- Promotes Hp corpus colonization
- Hp preferentially binds deeper within antralized metaplastic corpus glands (Sáenz et al., 2019)
- This may make it more difficult to detect Hp in severely diseased, shallow human biopsy samples !!
- Hp-infected individuals
- Can have seroconversion
- Or the loss of detectable serologic anti-Hp immunoglobulin after years of infection with and without successful eradication therapy (Valle et al., 1996; Perez-Perez et al., 2002; Veijola et al., 2007).
- Severe gastritis
- Leading to clearance or deep binding of bacteria
- Combined with a loss of serologic positivity
- Could explain why PA patients don’t show higher rates of Hp
- Although these ideas still do not prove that AIG is triggered by infection
- www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.752346/full
Hypochlorhydrie
- Another outcome from the loss of acid-secreting parietal cells is hypochlorhydria.
- Increased gastric pH
- Enhances gastrin production from G cells in the stomach.
- Gastrin acts on and induces hyperplasia of neuroendocrine ECL cells
- Promote acid secretion from parietal cells (Walsh, 1990).
- This type of hyperplasia is a common feature of AIG
- Can lead to the development of generally benign neuroendocrine tumors (Müller et al., 1987; Coati et al., 2015).
- www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.752346/full
Identifying food intolerances
- Is the first step on the road to restoring gut health.
- Hidden food intolerances or sensitivities create an inflammatory environment that contributes to dysbiosis, leaky gut, intestinal stress, immune system dysfunction...
2020 observational study, 58% of chronic atrophic gastritis patients
- Reported that their symptoms correlated with dietary factors [18].
- Foods associated with increased atrophic gastritis symptoms in observational studies and surveys include:
- Alcohol
- Spicy foods
- Sugary foods
- Fish
- Legumes
- Meat
- Coarse cereals (sorghum, pearl millet, ragi, small millets, maize, and barley)
- Dairy
- Experimenting with temporary elimination of these foods and observing how your body responds, you will have a clearer picture
- drruscio.com/autoimmune-atrophic-gastritis/
Genetická predispozice
- Existuje určitá genetická predispozice pro autoimunitní perniciózní anémii, která může být dědičná.
Infekce
- Některé infekce, jako je například Helicobacter pylori, mohou způsobit narušení tvorby vnitřního faktoru v těle a vést k autoimunitní perniciózní anémii.
Vliv prostředí
- Některé chemikálie a znečištění prostředí mohou ovlivnit imunitní systém těla a vést k autoimunitní perniciózní anémii.
Nedostatečný příjem vitamínu B12 z potravy
- Zvýšené riziko vzniku autoimunitní perniciózní anémie.
- Toto se obvykle týká veganské a vegetariánské stravy, protože vitamín B12 se přirozeně vyskytuje především v živočišných produktech, jako jsou maso, vejce a mléčné výrobky.
Chirurgické zákroky
- Některé chirurgické zákroky, jako je například gastrektomie, mohou způsobit narušení tvorby vnitřního faktoru v těle a vést k autoimunitní perniciózní anémii. (???)
Změny hormonální hladiny
- Těhotenství a menopauza, mohou ovlivnit imunitní systém těla a vést k auto
Léky
- Inhibitory protonové pumpy
- Antacidní přípravky, mohou snižovat tvorbu kyseliny v žaludku, což může narušit tvorbu IF a vést k AP.
Poškození thymu
Neonatal infection with murine CMV and adult infection with Salmonella typhimurium
- Result in thymic atrophy as well as decreased DP and CD4 SP thymocytes
- Neither infection has been reported to result in autoimmunity (Majumdar et al., 2017; Price et al., 1993).
Trypanosoma cruzi, HIV, measles, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, and Zika virus
- Can cause thymic involution
- Altered thymic epithelia,
- A clear link to development of autoimmunity independent of active pathogen replication has not been established (Autran et al., 1996; Elsaesser et al., 2020; Linhares-Lacerda et al., 2015; Messias et al., 2020; Valentin et al., 1999).
Attenuated yellow fever virus
- Infect the thymus and result in altered expression of AIRE and Foxp3 in the thymus
- Has not been a clear causal link to the development of autoimmunity (Melo-Lima et al., 2015).
- rupress.org/jem/article/219/3/e20211403/213039/Disruption-of-thymic-central-tolerance-by
Snížení počtu buněk thymu v dětství
MTV, aka murine herpesvirus 3 or mouse thymic lymphotropic virus
- Viruses infect the thymus
- Cause transient CD4 single-positive (SP) and double-positive (DP) thymocyte depletion
- After neonatal infection (Morse and Valinsky, 1989; Patel et al., 2017)
- MRV causes thymocyte depletion in mouse strains that were resistant to MTV (Cross et al., 1979; Patel and Yokoyama, 2017a; Rowe and Capps, 1961)
- MRV is a natural murine pathogen, providing an opportunity to perform in vivo studies evaluating the impact of a viral infection on development of autoimmune disease.
- rupress.org/jem/article/219/3/e20211403/213039/Disruption-of-thymic-central-tolerance-by
- Roseoloviruses
- HHV-6
- HHV-7
- Have been proposed to be associated with various autoimmune diseases
- Roseoloviruses remain latent in host cells
- In the case of HHV-6A and -6B, can integrate into the genome (Pantry and Medveczky, 2017).
- rupress.org/jem/article/219/3/e20211403/213039/Disruption-of-thymic-central-tolerance-by