[Pleiomorphism of the cytokine profile in nasal polyp tissue depending on the phenotype of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps]. / Pleiomorfizm tsitokinovogo profilya v tkani polipov v zavisimosti ot fenotipa polipoznogo rinosinusita.

Clinical phenotypes of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) are characterized with different inflammation patterns of mRNA expression of cytokines and depend on presence of allergic rhinitis (AR), atopic bronchial asthma (aBA) or nonatopic bronchial asthma (nBA). OBJECTIVE: To compare inflammation response in patients with different phenotypes of CRSwNP according to level secretion of the key cytokines in nasal polyp tissue. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 292 patients with CRSwNP were divided into four phenotypes: group 1 - CRSwNP without respiratory allergy (RA) and without BA; group 2a - CRSwNP+ AR with aBA; group 2b - CRSwNP+AR without aBA; group 3 - CRSwNP+nBA. Control group (n=36) included patients with hypertrophic rhinitis without atopy or BA. Using multiplex assay we defined the level of IL-1ß, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-13, IFN-γ, TGF-ß1, TGF-ß2, TGF-ß3 in nasal polyp tissue. RESULTS: The evaluation of cytokines levels in nasal polyps in different CRSwNP phenotypes showed a pleiotropy of different cytokine secretion depending on different comorbid pathology. In control group we estimated the lowest levels of all detected cytokines in comparison with other CRS groups. High levels of local proteins IL-5 and IL-13 and low levels of all isoform of TGF-ß characterized CRSwNP without RA and BA. The combination of CRSwNP with AR showed high levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-1ß, and high levels of TGF-ß1 and TGF-ß2. The combination of CRSwNP with aBA estimated low levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1ß, IFN-γ; in case of CRS+nBA we determined the highest levels of TGF-ß1, TGF-ß2 and TGF-ß3 in nasal polyp tissue. CONCLUSIONS: Each CRSwNP phenotype is characterized by different mechanism of local inflammation. This underlies the necessity to diagnose BA and respiratory allergy among these patients. The evaluation of local cytokine profile in different CRSwNP phenotypes can help to determine the target anticytokine therapy for patients who has low efficacy of basic corticosteroid therapy.

Anisotropy of magnetic properties of Fe(1+y)Te.

The magnetic properties of Fe(1+y)Te single crystals (y ≃ 0.1 ÷ 0.18) were studied at temperatures 4.2 ÷ 300 K. At an ambient pressure, with decreasing temperature a drastic drop in χ(T) was confirmed at T ≃ 60 ÷ 65 K, which appears to be closely related to the antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering. It is found that the magnitudes of the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility Δχ in the AFM phase are close in the studied samples, whereas the sign of the anisotropy apparently depends on the small variations of the excess iron y in Fe(1+y)Te samples. The performed DFT calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties for the stoichiometric FeTe compound indicate the presence of frustrated AFM ground states. There are very close energies and magnetic moments for the double stripe configurations, with the AFM axes oriented either on the basal plane or along the [0 0 1] direction. Presumably, both these configurations can be realized in Fe(1+y)Te single crystals, depending on the variations of the excess iron. This can provide different signs of magnetic anisotropy in the AFM phase, presently observed in the Fe(1+y)Te samples. For these types of AFM configuration, the calculations for the FeTe values of Δχ are consistent with our experimental data.