CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells Promote Th17 Responses and Genital Tract Inflammation upon Intracellular <i>Chlamydia muridarum</i> Infection
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The functional role of CD4⁺CD25⁺Foxp3⁺ regulatory T cells (Tregs) in host responses to intracellular bacterial infection was investigated in an in vitro coculturing system and a murine model of Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infection. Remarkably, C. muridarum infection subverted the immune suppressive role of CD4⁺CD25⁺Foxp3⁺ Tregs; instead of hampering immune responses, Tregs not only promoted Th17 differentiation from conventional CD4⁺ T cells but also themselves converted into proinflammatory Th17 cells in both in vitro and in vivo settings. Anti-CD25 mAb PC61 treatment to deplete ∼50% of pre-existing Tregs prior to C. muridarum genital tract infection markedly reduced the frequency and the total number of Th17 but not Th1 CD4⁺ cells at both immune induction and memory phases. Most importantly, Treg-depleted mice displayed significantly attenuated inflammation, neutrophil infiltration, and reduced severity of oviduct pathology upon C. muridarum genital infection. To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating that the level of pre-existing CD4⁺CD25⁺Foxp3⁺ Tregs in Chlamydia-infected hosts has a major impact on the development Chlamydia-associated diseases.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".