TY  - JOUR
AU  - Leposavić, Gordana
AU  - Perišić-Nanut, Milica
AU  - Pilipović, Ivan
AU  - Kosec, Duško
AU  - Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena
AU  - Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica
AU  - Đikić, Jasmina
AU  - Nacka-Aleksić, Mirjana
PY  - 2014
UR  - http://intor.torlakinstitut.com/handle/123456789/421
AB  - This study explores the role of ovarian hormones in the phenotypic shaping of peripheral T-cell pool over the reproductive lifespan of rats. For this purpose, 2-month-old prepubertally ovariectomised (Ox) rats, showing oestrogen and progesterone deficiency, and 11-month-old Ox rats, exhibiting only progesterone deficiency, were examined for thymus output, and cellularity and composition of major TCR alpha beta+ peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) and splenocyte subsets. Although ovariectomy increased thymic output in both 2- and 11-month-old rats, the count of both CD4+ and CD8+ PBLs and splenocytes increased only in the former. In the blood and spleen of 11-month-old Ox rats only the count of CD8+ cells increased. Although ovariectomy affected the total CD4+ count in none of the examined compartments from the 11-month-old rats, it increased CD4+FoxP3+ PBL and splenocyte relative proportions over those in the age-matched controls. The age-related differences in the cellularity and the major subset composition in Ox rats were linked to the differences in the ovarian steroid hormone levels registered in 2- and 11-month-old rats. The administration of progesterone to Ox rats during the seven days before the sacrificing confirmed contribution of this hormone deficiency to the ovariectomy-induced changes in the TCR alpha beta+ PBL and splenocyte pool from 11-month-old rats. The expansion of the CD8+ splenocyte subset in the 11-month-old Ox rats reflected increases in cellularity of memory and, particularly, nave cells. This was due to greater thymic output of CD8+ cells and homeostatic proliferation than apoptosis in 11-month-old Ox rats when compared with age-matched sham-Ox control rats. The homeostatic changes within CD8+ splenocyte pool from 11-month-old Ox rats, most likely, reflected the enhanced splenic IL-7 and TGF-beta mRNA expression. Overall, in adult female rats, circulating oestrogen and progesterone provide maintenance of T-cell counts, a diversity of T-cell repertoire, and the main T-cell subset composition in the periphery. Progesterone deficiency affects mainly the CD8+ lymphocyte compartment through increasing thymic CD8+ cell export and upsetting homeostatic regulation within the CD8+ splenocyte pool. These alterations were reversible through progesterone supplementation. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH, All rights reserved.
PB  - Elsevier Gmbh, Munich
T2  - Immunobiology
T1  - Reshaping of T-lymphocyte compartment in adult prepubertaly ovariectomised rats: A putative role for progesterone deficiency
EP  - 130
IS  - 2
SP  - 118
VL  - 219
DO  - 10.1016/j.imbio.2013.08.004
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Leposavić, Gordana and Perišić-Nanut, Milica and Pilipović, Ivan and Kosec, Duško and Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena and Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica and Đikić, Jasmina and Nacka-Aleksić, Mirjana",
year = "2014",
abstract = "This study explores the role of ovarian hormones in the phenotypic shaping of peripheral T-cell pool over the reproductive lifespan of rats. For this purpose, 2-month-old prepubertally ovariectomised (Ox) rats, showing oestrogen and progesterone deficiency, and 11-month-old Ox rats, exhibiting only progesterone deficiency, were examined for thymus output, and cellularity and composition of major TCR alpha beta+ peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) and splenocyte subsets. Although ovariectomy increased thymic output in both 2- and 11-month-old rats, the count of both CD4+ and CD8+ PBLs and splenocytes increased only in the former. In the blood and spleen of 11-month-old Ox rats only the count of CD8+ cells increased. Although ovariectomy affected the total CD4+ count in none of the examined compartments from the 11-month-old rats, it increased CD4+FoxP3+ PBL and splenocyte relative proportions over those in the age-matched controls. The age-related differences in the cellularity and the major subset composition in Ox rats were linked to the differences in the ovarian steroid hormone levels registered in 2- and 11-month-old rats. The administration of progesterone to Ox rats during the seven days before the sacrificing confirmed contribution of this hormone deficiency to the ovariectomy-induced changes in the TCR alpha beta+ PBL and splenocyte pool from 11-month-old rats. The expansion of the CD8+ splenocyte subset in the 11-month-old Ox rats reflected increases in cellularity of memory and, particularly, nave cells. This was due to greater thymic output of CD8+ cells and homeostatic proliferation than apoptosis in 11-month-old Ox rats when compared with age-matched sham-Ox control rats. The homeostatic changes within CD8+ splenocyte pool from 11-month-old Ox rats, most likely, reflected the enhanced splenic IL-7 and TGF-beta mRNA expression. Overall, in adult female rats, circulating oestrogen and progesterone provide maintenance of T-cell counts, a diversity of T-cell repertoire, and the main T-cell subset composition in the periphery. Progesterone deficiency affects mainly the CD8+ lymphocyte compartment through increasing thymic CD8+ cell export and upsetting homeostatic regulation within the CD8+ splenocyte pool. These alterations were reversible through progesterone supplementation. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH, All rights reserved.",
publisher = "Elsevier Gmbh, Munich",
journal = "Immunobiology",
title = "Reshaping of T-lymphocyte compartment in adult prepubertaly ovariectomised rats: A putative role for progesterone deficiency",
pages = "130-118",
number = "2",
volume = "219",
doi = "10.1016/j.imbio.2013.08.004"
}

Leposavić, G., Perišić-Nanut, M., Pilipović, I., Kosec, D., Arsenović-Ranin, N., Stojić-Vukanić, Z., Đikić, J.,& Nacka-Aleksić, M.. (2014). Reshaping of T-lymphocyte compartment in adult prepubertaly ovariectomised rats: A putative role for progesterone deficiency. in Immunobiology
Elsevier Gmbh, Munich., 219(2), 118-130.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imbio.2013.08.004

Leposavić G, Perišić-Nanut M, Pilipović I, Kosec D, Arsenović-Ranin N, Stojić-Vukanić Z, Đikić J, Nacka-Aleksić M. Reshaping of T-lymphocyte compartment in adult prepubertaly ovariectomised rats: A putative role for progesterone deficiency. in Immunobiology. 2014;219(2):118-130.
doi:10.1016/j.imbio.2013.08.004 .

Leposavić, Gordana, Perišić-Nanut, Milica, Pilipović, Ivan, Kosec, Duško, Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena, Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica, Đikić, Jasmina, Nacka-Aleksić, Mirjana, "Reshaping of T-lymphocyte compartment in adult prepubertaly ovariectomised rats: A putative role for progesterone deficiency" in Immunobiology, 219, no. 2 (2014):118-130,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imbio.2013.08.004 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pilipović, Ivan
AU  - Radojević, Katarina
AU  - Kosec, Duško
AU  - Perišić-Nanut, Milica
AU  - Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica
AU  - Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena
AU  - Leposavić, Gordana
PY  - 2013
UR  - http://intor.torlakinstitut.com/handle/123456789/385
AB  - The study was undertaken considering that: i) androgens affect beta(2)-adrenoceptor (AR)-mediated catecholamine (CA) action in many tissues; and ii) peripubertal changes in both circulating androgen and thymic CA levels are implicated in rat thymic involution. Its aims were to: i) explore putative effects of the late prepubertal orchidectomy on thymic CA:beta(2)-AR complex in young adult rats, and ii) delineate the direct effects of testicular hormone withdrawal on the CA:beta(2)-AR complex from those elicited secondarily through altered influence of this complex components on each other's availability. Upon showing that prepubertal orchidectomy augmented the efficacy of thymopoiesis through increasing the thymocyte surface density of Thy-1, whose expression is negatively regulated by beta(2)-AR-mediated signaling, we examined the effects of orchidectomy and 14-day-long propranolol (PROP) treatment in orchidectomized (ORX) and sham-ORX rats on thymic norepinephrine (NE) concentration and metabolism and beta(2)-AR expression. Orchidectomy, despite an increase in the average NE amount per thymocyte and total thymocyte NE content diminished thymic NE concentration. This decrease reflected the diminished density of CA-synthesizing nerve fibers, CD68 + macrophages, cortical (aminopeptidase A+), and medullary (UEA-1+) thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and their CA content (probably due to lessened TH expression accompanied by increased MAO-A expression). Moreover, orchidectomy decreased the surface beta(2)-AR expression on thymocytes, CD68+ macrophages and OX-62+ dendritic cells, but increased its expression on the TECs. In sham-ORX rats, PROP reduced thymic NE concentration by diminishing TH expression in the thymic cells. Additionally, PROP in thymocytes and thymic stromal cells diminished and enhanced the beta(2)-AR mRNA expression, respectively. However, in ORX rats PROP did not significantly affect CA(NE):beta(2)-AR complex components. This indicated that prepubertal orchidectomy affects ability of young adult rats to respond to beta-AR blockade by altering thymic NE and beta(2)-AR availability. Collectively, the results showed that testicular hormones contribute to alterations in thymus/thymopoiesis during the critical peripubertal period by shaping modulatory sympathetic influence and CA autocrine/paracrine action within the organ. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PB  - Elsevier, Amsterdam
T2  - Journal of Neuroimmunology
T1  - Gonadal hormone dependent developmental plasticity of catecholamine:beta 2-adrenoceptor signaling complex in male rat thymus: Putative implications for thymopoiesis
EP  - 35
IS  - 1-2
SP  - 20
VL  - 265
DO  - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.09.021
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Pilipović, Ivan and Radojević, Katarina and Kosec, Duško and Perišić-Nanut, Milica and Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica and Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena and Leposavić, Gordana",
year = "2013",
abstract = "The study was undertaken considering that: i) androgens affect beta(2)-adrenoceptor (AR)-mediated catecholamine (CA) action in many tissues; and ii) peripubertal changes in both circulating androgen and thymic CA levels are implicated in rat thymic involution. Its aims were to: i) explore putative effects of the late prepubertal orchidectomy on thymic CA:beta(2)-AR complex in young adult rats, and ii) delineate the direct effects of testicular hormone withdrawal on the CA:beta(2)-AR complex from those elicited secondarily through altered influence of this complex components on each other's availability. Upon showing that prepubertal orchidectomy augmented the efficacy of thymopoiesis through increasing the thymocyte surface density of Thy-1, whose expression is negatively regulated by beta(2)-AR-mediated signaling, we examined the effects of orchidectomy and 14-day-long propranolol (PROP) treatment in orchidectomized (ORX) and sham-ORX rats on thymic norepinephrine (NE) concentration and metabolism and beta(2)-AR expression. Orchidectomy, despite an increase in the average NE amount per thymocyte and total thymocyte NE content diminished thymic NE concentration. This decrease reflected the diminished density of CA-synthesizing nerve fibers, CD68 + macrophages, cortical (aminopeptidase A+), and medullary (UEA-1+) thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and their CA content (probably due to lessened TH expression accompanied by increased MAO-A expression). Moreover, orchidectomy decreased the surface beta(2)-AR expression on thymocytes, CD68+ macrophages and OX-62+ dendritic cells, but increased its expression on the TECs. In sham-ORX rats, PROP reduced thymic NE concentration by diminishing TH expression in the thymic cells. Additionally, PROP in thymocytes and thymic stromal cells diminished and enhanced the beta(2)-AR mRNA expression, respectively. However, in ORX rats PROP did not significantly affect CA(NE):beta(2)-AR complex components. This indicated that prepubertal orchidectomy affects ability of young adult rats to respond to beta-AR blockade by altering thymic NE and beta(2)-AR availability. Collectively, the results showed that testicular hormones contribute to alterations in thymus/thymopoiesis during the critical peripubertal period by shaping modulatory sympathetic influence and CA autocrine/paracrine action within the organ. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.",
publisher = "Elsevier, Amsterdam",
journal = "Journal of Neuroimmunology",
title = "Gonadal hormone dependent developmental plasticity of catecholamine:beta 2-adrenoceptor signaling complex in male rat thymus: Putative implications for thymopoiesis",
pages = "35-20",
number = "1-2",
volume = "265",
doi = "10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.09.021"
}

Pilipović, I., Radojević, K., Kosec, D., Perišić-Nanut, M., Stojić-Vukanić, Z., Arsenović-Ranin, N.,& Leposavić, G.. (2013). Gonadal hormone dependent developmental plasticity of catecholamine:beta 2-adrenoceptor signaling complex in male rat thymus: Putative implications for thymopoiesis. in Journal of Neuroimmunology
Elsevier, Amsterdam., 265(1-2), 20-35.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.09.021

Pilipović I, Radojević K, Kosec D, Perišić-Nanut M, Stojić-Vukanić Z, Arsenović-Ranin N, Leposavić G. Gonadal hormone dependent developmental plasticity of catecholamine:beta 2-adrenoceptor signaling complex in male rat thymus: Putative implications for thymopoiesis. in Journal of Neuroimmunology. 2013;265(1-2):20-35.
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.09.021 .

Pilipović, Ivan, Radojević, Katarina, Kosec, Duško, Perišić-Nanut, Milica, Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica, Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena, Leposavić, Gordana, "Gonadal hormone dependent developmental plasticity of catecholamine:beta 2-adrenoceptor signaling complex in male rat thymus: Putative implications for thymopoiesis" in Journal of Neuroimmunology, 265, no. 1-2 (2013):20-35,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.09.021 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica
AU  - Bufan, Biljana
AU  - Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena
AU  - Kosec, Duško
AU  - Pilipović, Ivan
AU  - Perišić-Nanut, Milica
AU  - Leposavić, Gordana
PY  - 2013
UR  - http://intor.torlakinstitut.com/handle/123456789/376
AB  - It is well-established that almost all cellular components of innate and adaptive immunity undergo age-related remodelling. The findings on age-related changes in both human and mouse dendritic cells (DCs) are conflicting, whereas there are no data on the influence of aging on rat DCs. In an attempt to fill this gap, freshly isolated splenic DCs expressing CD103 (alpha(OX-62) integrin), a DC specific marker recognized by MRC OX62 monoclonal antibody, from 3- (young) and 26-month-old (aged) Albino Oxford rats were examined for subset composition, expression of activation/differentiation markers (CD80, CD86 and CD40 and MHC II molecules) and endocytic capacity using flow cytometric analysis (FCA). In addition, splenic OX62+ DCs cultured in the presence or absence of LPS were analysed for the activation marker and TNF-alpha, IL-6, IL-12, IL-23, TGF-beta 1, IL-10 expression using FCA, RT-PCR and ELISA, respectively. Moreover, the allostimulatory capacity of OX62+ DCs and IFN-gamma, IL-4 and IL-17 production by CD4+ T cells in mixed leukocyte reaction was quantified using FCA and ELISA, respectively. It was found that aging: i) shifts the CD4+:CD4- subset ratio in the OX62+ DCs population towards the CD4- subset and ii) influences DCs maturation (judging by activation marker expression and efficiency of endocytosis) by affecting the expression of intrinsic (TNF-alpha and IL-10) and extrinsic maturation regulators. Furthermore, in LPS-matured OX62+ DCs from aged rats expression of TNF-alpha, IL-12, IL-23 and IL-6 was increased, whereas that of IL-10 was diminished compared with the corresponding cells from young rats. Moreover, in MLR, OX62+ DCs from aged rats exhibited enhanced Th1/Th17 driving force and diminished allostimulatory capacity compared with those from young rats.
PB  - Springer, New York
T2  - Biogerontology
T1  - Aging affects AO rat splenic conventional dendritic cell subset composition, cytokine synthesis and T-helper polarizing capacity
EP  - 459
IS  - 4
SP  - 443
VL  - 14
DO  - 10.1007/s10522-013-9444-5
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica and Bufan, Biljana and Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena and Kosec, Duško and Pilipović, Ivan and Perišić-Nanut, Milica and Leposavić, Gordana",
year = "2013",
abstract = "It is well-established that almost all cellular components of innate and adaptive immunity undergo age-related remodelling. The findings on age-related changes in both human and mouse dendritic cells (DCs) are conflicting, whereas there are no data on the influence of aging on rat DCs. In an attempt to fill this gap, freshly isolated splenic DCs expressing CD103 (alpha(OX-62) integrin), a DC specific marker recognized by MRC OX62 monoclonal antibody, from 3- (young) and 26-month-old (aged) Albino Oxford rats were examined for subset composition, expression of activation/differentiation markers (CD80, CD86 and CD40 and MHC II molecules) and endocytic capacity using flow cytometric analysis (FCA). In addition, splenic OX62+ DCs cultured in the presence or absence of LPS were analysed for the activation marker and TNF-alpha, IL-6, IL-12, IL-23, TGF-beta 1, IL-10 expression using FCA, RT-PCR and ELISA, respectively. Moreover, the allostimulatory capacity of OX62+ DCs and IFN-gamma, IL-4 and IL-17 production by CD4+ T cells in mixed leukocyte reaction was quantified using FCA and ELISA, respectively. It was found that aging: i) shifts the CD4+:CD4- subset ratio in the OX62+ DCs population towards the CD4- subset and ii) influences DCs maturation (judging by activation marker expression and efficiency of endocytosis) by affecting the expression of intrinsic (TNF-alpha and IL-10) and extrinsic maturation regulators. Furthermore, in LPS-matured OX62+ DCs from aged rats expression of TNF-alpha, IL-12, IL-23 and IL-6 was increased, whereas that of IL-10 was diminished compared with the corresponding cells from young rats. Moreover, in MLR, OX62+ DCs from aged rats exhibited enhanced Th1/Th17 driving force and diminished allostimulatory capacity compared with those from young rats.",
publisher = "Springer, New York",
journal = "Biogerontology",
title = "Aging affects AO rat splenic conventional dendritic cell subset composition, cytokine synthesis and T-helper polarizing capacity",
pages = "459-443",
number = "4",
volume = "14",
doi = "10.1007/s10522-013-9444-5"
}

Stojić-Vukanić, Z., Bufan, B., Arsenović-Ranin, N., Kosec, D., Pilipović, I., Perišić-Nanut, M.,& Leposavić, G.. (2013). Aging affects AO rat splenic conventional dendritic cell subset composition, cytokine synthesis and T-helper polarizing capacity. in Biogerontology
Springer, New York., 14(4), 443-459.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-013-9444-5

Stojić-Vukanić Z, Bufan B, Arsenović-Ranin N, Kosec D, Pilipović I, Perišić-Nanut M, Leposavić G. Aging affects AO rat splenic conventional dendritic cell subset composition, cytokine synthesis and T-helper polarizing capacity. in Biogerontology. 2013;14(4):443-459.
doi:10.1007/s10522-013-9444-5 .

Stojić-Vukanić, Zorica, Bufan, Biljana, Arsenović-Ranin, Nevena, Kosec, Duško, Pilipović, Ivan, Perišić-Nanut, Milica, Leposavić, Gordana, "Aging affects AO rat splenic conventional dendritic cell subset composition, cytokine synthesis and T-helper polarizing capacity" in Biogerontology, 14, no. 4 (2013):443-459,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-013-9444-5 . .