Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study.
<h4>Background</h4>Current cigarette smoking is associated with reduced acute responses to corticosteroids and worse clinical outcomes in stable chronic asthma. The mechanism by which current smoking promotes this altered behavior is currently unclear. Whilst cytokines can induce cortico...
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| author | Mark Spears Charles McSharry Rekha Chaudhuri Christopher J Weir Carl de Wet Neil C Thomson |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>Current cigarette smoking is associated with reduced acute responses to corticosteroids and worse clinical outcomes in stable chronic asthma. The mechanism by which current smoking promotes this altered behavior is currently unclear. Whilst cytokines can induce corticosteroid insensitivity in-vitro, how current and former smoking affects airway cytokine concentrations and their responses to oral corticosteroids in stable chronic asthma is unclear.<h4>Objectives</h4>To examine blood and sputum cytokine concentrations in never, ex and current smokers with asthma before and after oral corticosteroids.<h4>Methods</h4>Exploratory study utilizing two weeks of oral dexamethasone (equivalent to 40 mg/day prednisolone) in 22 current, 21 never and 10 ex-smokers with asthma. Induced sputum supernatant and plasma was obtained before and after oral dexamethasone. 25 cytokines were measured by multiplex microbead system (Invitrogen, UK) on a Luminex platform.<h4>Results</h4>Smokers with asthma had elevated sputum cytokine interleukin (IL) -6, -7, and -12 concentrations compared to never smokers with asthma. Few sputum cytokine concentrations changed in response to dexamethasone IL-17 and IFNα increased in smokers, CCL4 increased in never smokers and CCL5 and CXCL10 reduced in ex-smokers with asthma. Ex-smokers with asthma appeared to have evidence of an ongoing corticosteroid resistant elevation of cytokines despite smoking cessation. Several plasma cytokines were lower in smokers with asthma compared to never smokers with asthma.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Cigarette smoking in asthma is associated with a corticosteroid insensitive increase in multiple airway cytokines. Distinct airway cytokine profiles are present in current smokers and never smokers with asthma and could provide an explanatory mechanism for the altered clinical behavior observed in smokers with asthma. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e2435ccb4b024242b2e969e4336aed002025-08-20T02:09:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032013-01-0188e7146010.1371/journal.pone.0071460Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study.Mark SpearsCharles McSharryRekha ChaudhuriChristopher J WeirCarl de WetNeil C Thomson<h4>Background</h4>Current cigarette smoking is associated with reduced acute responses to corticosteroids and worse clinical outcomes in stable chronic asthma. The mechanism by which current smoking promotes this altered behavior is currently unclear. Whilst cytokines can induce corticosteroid insensitivity in-vitro, how current and former smoking affects airway cytokine concentrations and their responses to oral corticosteroids in stable chronic asthma is unclear.<h4>Objectives</h4>To examine blood and sputum cytokine concentrations in never, ex and current smokers with asthma before and after oral corticosteroids.<h4>Methods</h4>Exploratory study utilizing two weeks of oral dexamethasone (equivalent to 40 mg/day prednisolone) in 22 current, 21 never and 10 ex-smokers with asthma. Induced sputum supernatant and plasma was obtained before and after oral dexamethasone. 25 cytokines were measured by multiplex microbead system (Invitrogen, UK) on a Luminex platform.<h4>Results</h4>Smokers with asthma had elevated sputum cytokine interleukin (IL) -6, -7, and -12 concentrations compared to never smokers with asthma. Few sputum cytokine concentrations changed in response to dexamethasone IL-17 and IFNα increased in smokers, CCL4 increased in never smokers and CCL5 and CXCL10 reduced in ex-smokers with asthma. Ex-smokers with asthma appeared to have evidence of an ongoing corticosteroid resistant elevation of cytokines despite smoking cessation. Several plasma cytokines were lower in smokers with asthma compared to never smokers with asthma.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Cigarette smoking in asthma is associated with a corticosteroid insensitive increase in multiple airway cytokines. Distinct airway cytokine profiles are present in current smokers and never smokers with asthma and could provide an explanatory mechanism for the altered clinical behavior observed in smokers with asthma.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0071460&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Mark Spears Charles McSharry Rekha Chaudhuri Christopher J Weir Carl de Wet Neil C Thomson Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study. PLoS ONE |
| title | Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study. |
| title_full | Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study. |
| title_fullStr | Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study. |
| title_short | Smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines-an exploratory study. |
| title_sort | smoking in asthma is associated with elevated levels of corticosteroid resistant sputum cytokines an exploratory study |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0071460&type=printable |
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