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This study will investigate the inflammatory response. People with abnormal regulation of inflammation and immune defects often have an exaggerated or depressed inflammatory response that results in poor healing of recurrent infections. This study will measure and compare amounts of inflammatory mediators (chemicals involved in the inflammatory response) in healthy normal volunteers and in patients with abnormal immune responses.

Healthy normal volunteers and patients with host defense defects or excessive inflammation, as in vasculitis syndromes, may be eligible for this study. Patients must be between 6 and 65 years of age.

Participants will have eight small blisters raised on the forearm using a gentle suction device. The top of the blisters will be removed with scissors and a plastic template will be placed over the blisters. The wells of the template will be filled with a salt solution or a mixture of the subject s serum (fluid part of the blood without cells) and a salt solution. Some blisters may be covered with coverslips a small round piece of very thin sterilized glass before adding the fluid. Blister fluid will be removed from the wells at 3, 5, 8, and 24 hours with a syringe and analyzed for inflammatory mediators. A scab will form over the blisters and fall off in about 2 weeks.

Participants will have about 4 tablespoons of blood drawn in order to compare the inflammatory mediators in the blood with those in the blister fluid.


Clinical Trial Description

Patients with abnormal regulation of inflammation and with host defense defects often have an exaggerated or depressed inflammatory response with resultant difficulty in healing of recurrent infections. Delayed healing can be manifested by either a delay in wound healing, granuloma formation along the incision line, or dehiscence of a partially healed wound without evidence of infection. We are interested in studying the dynamics of host immune defenses during an experimentally induced inflammatory response using a well-studied suction blister device. This protocol is designed to study mediators of inflammation in patients with host defense defects as well as patients with excessive inflammation as in the vasculitis syndromes. We will measure mediators of inflammation (e.g., C5a, leukotriene B4, interleukins, chemokines, tumor necrosis factor, interferon-gamma) by ELISA, radioimmunoassay, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, multiplex cytokine assays, and/or bioactivity assays. Furthermore, molecular characterization and host defense functions (e.g., respiratory burst, chemotaxis, phagocytosis, microbicidal activity) of cells recruited to the blisters will also be examined. In addition to the analysis of cell function, RNA will be prepared and subject to DNA microarray or quantitative RT-PCR studies to measure expression and dynamics of key inflammatory mediators. Many of these factors contribute to the inflammatory process and several are thought to be important in granuloma formation. If patients are found to have abnormal amounts of these mediators when compared to healthy volunteers or patients with other abnormalities it will help us understand the basis for their disease and new therapeutic strategies. For example, this blister study allowed us to identify a patient subsequently shown to have IRAK4 deficiency. ;


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NCT number NCT00001257
Study type Observational
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
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Status Terminated
Phase
Start date April 24, 1990
Completion date August 2, 2019

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