Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Androgens predispose males to monocyte-mediated immunopathology by inducing the expression of leukocyte recruitment factor CXCL1

  • Julie Sellau,
  • Marie Groneberg,
  • Helena Fehling,
  • Thorsten Thye,
  • Stefan Hoenow,
  • Claudia Marggraff,
  • Marie Weskamm,
  • Charlotte Hansen,
  • Stephanie Stanelle-Bertram,
  • Svenja Kuehl,
  • Jill Noll,
  • Vincent Wolf,
  • Nahla Galal Metwally,
  • Sven Hendrik Hagen,
  • Christoph Dorn,
  • Julia Wernecke,
  • Harald Ittrich,
  • Egbert Tannich,
  • Thomas Jacobs,
  • Iris Bruchhaus,
  • Marcus Altfeld,
  • Hannelore Lotter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17260-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Altered monocyte responses and testosterone levels correlate, individually, with the pathogenesis of hepatic amebiasis in mice. Here the authors show that testosterone induces enhanced TNF/CXCL1 expression and stronger proinflammatory responses in both human and mouse monocytes to support an androgen-monocyte axis of inflammation regulation.