{"id":1573,"date":"2008-06-04T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2019-03-24T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T08:52:44","slug":"vitamin-d-as-an-adjuvans-to-specific-immunotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/06\/vitamin-d-as-an-adjuvans-to-specific-immunotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D as an adjuvans to specific immunotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the known allergy promoting effect of vitamin D in early childhood, there is mounting evidence that it may have beneficial effects during specific immunotherapy. A paper on “IL-10-inducing adjuvants enhance sublingual immunotherapy efficacy in a murine asthma model” by researchers from a French allergen company published now in Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2008;145:152-162<\/a> shows<\/p>\n

Following stimulation with VitD3\/Dex-pretreated DCs, CD4+ na\u00c3\u00afve T cells exhibit a Treg profile. In contrast, a Th1\/Treg pattern of differentiation is observed in the presence of DCs treated with L. plantarum. Both adjuvants significantly enhance SLIT efficacy in mice, in association with either induction of Foxp3+ Treg cells (for VitD3\/Dex) or proliferation of OVA-specific T cells in cervical LNs (for L. plantarum). Conclusions: Both VitD3\/Dex and L. plantarum polarize na\u00c3\u00afve T cells towards IL-10-expressing T cells, through distinct mechanisms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More or less at the same time there is a report that “1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 potentiates the beneficial effects of allergen immunotherapy in a mouse model of allergic asthma: role for IL-10 and TGF-beta” published in J Immunol 2008;180:5211-5222<\/a><\/p>\n

In this model, the dose response of allergen immunotherapy 10 days before OVA inhalation challenge shows strong suppression of asthma manifestations at 1 mg of OVA, but partial suppression of bronchoalveolar lavage eosinophilia, IgE up-regulation, and no reduction of AHR at 100 \u00c2\u00b5g. Interestingly, coadministration of 10 ng of 1,25(OH)2D3 with 100 \u00c2\u00b5g of OVA immunotherapy significantly inhibited AHR and potentiated the reduction of serum OVA-specific IgE levels, airway eosinophilia, and Th2-related cytokines concomitant with increased IL-10 levels in lung tissues and TGF-\u00ce\u00b2 and OVA-specific IgA levels in serum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blowing out the fire with gasoline seems to work at least in the mouse model.<\/p>\n

But will it also work in humans? Both papers do not cite earlier research, to be exact in the Journal of Allergy 1934;5:541<\/a> (the JACI precursor):
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\nAlthough a placebo group is missing, this could point towards useful co-effects. It is also inline with a preceding JAMA paper of the same authors on 6 ragweed sensitive patients (1932; 2:105-109).
\nAn ongoing study in Poland<\/a> will show, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n

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Despite the known allergy promoting effect of vitamin D in early childhood, there is mounting evidence that it may have beneficial effects during specific immunotherapy. A paper on “IL-10-inducing adjuvants enhance sublingual immunotherapy efficacy in a murine asthma model” by researchers from a French allergen company   CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.05.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[648,1871,1873,1872,1287],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-sunshine-vitamin","tag-allergen","tag-beneficial-effects","tag-efficacy","tag-murine","tag-vitamin-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12300,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/12300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}