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Immune Netw. 2010 Jun;10(3):92-8. doi: 10.4110/in.2010.10.3.92. Epub 2010 Jun 30.

Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors, Aspirin and Ibuprofen, Inhibit MHC-restricted Antigen Presentation in Dendritic Cells.

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Hyun-Jin Kim, Young-Hee Lee, Sun-A Im, Kyungjae Kim, Chong-Kil Lee

Affiliations

  1. College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Korea.

PMID: 20631879 PMCID: PMC2902675 DOI: 10.4110/in.2010.10.3.92

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely used to relieve pain, reduce fever and inhibit inflammation. NSAIDs function mainly through inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX). Growing evidence suggests that NSAIDs also have immunomodulatory effects on T and B cells. Here we examined the effects of NSAIDs on the antigen presenting function of dendritic cells (DCs).

METHODS: DCs were cultured in the presence of aspirin or ibuprofen, and then allowed to phagocytose biodegradable microspheres containing ovalbumin (OVA). After washing and fixing, the efficacy of OVA peptide presentation by DCs was evaluated using OVA-specific CD8 and CD4 T cells.

RESULTS: Aspirin and ibuprofen at high concentrations inhibited both MHC class I and class II-restricted presentation of OVA in DCs. In addition, the DCs generated in the presence of low concentrations of the drugs exhibit a profoundly suppressed capability to present MHC-restricted antigens. Aspirin and ibuprofen did not inhibit the phagocytic activity of DCs, the expression level of total MHC molecules and co-stimulatory molecules on DCs. Ibuprofen rather increased the expression level of total MHC molecules and co-stimulatory molecules on DCs.

CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate that aspirin and ibuprofen inhibit the intracellular processing event of the phagocytosed antigen, and further suggest that prolonged administration of NSAIDs in high doses may impair the capability of DCs to present antigens in asiociation with MHC molecules.

Keywords: Antigen processing; Aspirin; Dendritic cell; Ibuprofen

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