Alterations in B cell subsets correlate with body composition parameters in female adolescents with anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe eating disorder and often associated with altered humoral immune responses. However, distinct B cell maturation stages in peripheral blood in adolescents with AN have not been characterized. Treatment effects and the relationship between clinical and B cell paramete...
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FB/Einrichtung: | FB 05: Medizinische Fakultät
FB 07: Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft |
Dokumenttypen: | Artikel |
Medientypen: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Publikation in MIAMI: | 04.05.2023 |
Datum der letzten Änderung: | 04.05.2023 |
Angaben zur Ausgabe: | [Electronic ed.] |
Quelle: | Scientific Reports 11 (2021), 1125, 1-13 |
Schlagwörter: | Diseases; Immunology; Medical research; Psychology |
Fachgebiet (DDC): | 610: Medizin und Gesundheit |
Lizenz: | CC BY 4.0 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Förderung: | Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022. |
Format: | PDF-Dokument |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-60049463514 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | DOI: 10.17879/70049543490 |
Permalink: | https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-60049463514 |
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Onlinezugriff: | 10.1038_s41598-020-80693-4.pdf |
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe eating disorder and often associated with altered humoral immune responses. However, distinct B cell maturation stages in peripheral blood in adolescents with AN have not been characterized. Treatment effects and the relationship between clinical and B cell parameters are also not fully understood. Here we investigated the phenotype of circulating B cell subsets and the relationship with body composition in adolescents with AN before (T0, n = 24) and after 6 weeks (T1, n = 20) of treatment. Using multi-parameter flow cytometry, we found increased percentages of antigen-experienced B cells and plasmablasts in patients with AN compared to healthy controls (n = 20). In contrast, percentages of CD1d+CD5+ B cells and transitional B cells with immunoregulatory roles were reduced at T0 and T1. These B cell frequencies correlated positively with fat mass, fat mass index (FMI), free fat mass index, and body mass index standard deviation score. In addition, scavenger-like receptor CD5 expression levels were downregulated on transitional B cells and correlated with fat mass and FMI in AN. Our findings that regulatory B cell subgroups were reduced in AN and their strong relationship with body composition parameters point toward an impact of immunoregulatory B cells in the pathogenesis of AN.