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...

Verfasser: Freff, Jana
Schwarte, Kathrin
Bröker, Lisa
Bühlmeier, Judith
Kraft, Isabelle
Öztürk, Dana
Hinney, Anke
Arolt, Volker
Dannlowski, Udo
Romer, Georg
Baune, Bernhard Th.
Hebebrand, Johannes
Föcker, Manuel
Alferink, Judith
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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    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.