Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Hall D1 Foyer (Floor 3) (Coex Convention Center)
Yoon Hee Park
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Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Jung-Ho Sohn, BS
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Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Hye Jung Park, MD
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Severance Hospital Regional Pharmacovigilance Centre, Seoul, South Korea
Heejae Han
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Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Kyung Hee Park, MD
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Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Jae-Hyun Lee, MD, PhD
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Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Jung-Won Park, MD, PhD
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Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Background: The effect of silver nanoparticles (SNPs) on inflammation has been remained as a controversy. We established the hypothesis that SNPs can activate immune responses and have an adjuvant effect for allergen sensitization.
Methods: The six-week-old BALB/c female mice were sensitized two times via intraperitoneal injection of ovalbumin (OVA) and challenged intranasally with OVA with or without different sizes (10 nm or 100 nm) of SNPs.
Results: SNPs exposure induced significant airway inflammation and AHR, particularly in the 10 nm SNPs-treated group. In OVA/SNPs asthma models, OVA with 10 nm SNPs treated group showed significant airway inflammation, more than those treated with only OVA and 100 nm SNPs-treated group. Interleukin (IL)-5, IL-6, IL-13, IL-17, Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) levels correlated with airway inflammation in the tested models.
Conclusions: These results suggest that exposure of SNPs could enhance airway inflammation. The adjuvant effects of SNPs were found at smaller size (10 nm SNPs) in OVA treated asthma mice.
