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Our earlier study showed that GM-CSF has the potential not only to prevent, but also to suppress, experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (EAT). GM-CSF-induced EAT suppression in mice was accompanied by an increase in the frequency of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells that could suppress mouse thyroglobulin (mTg)-specific T cell responses in vitro, but the underlying mechanism of this suppression was not elucidated. In this study we show that GM-CSF can induce dendritic cells (DCs) with a semimature phenotype, an important characteristic of DCs, which are known to play a critical role in the induction and maintenance of regulatory T cells. Adoptive transfer of CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells from GM-CSF-treated and mTg-primed donors into untreated, but mTg-primed, recipients resulted in decreased mTg-specific T cell responses. Furthermore, lymphocytes obtained from these donors and recipients after adoptive transfer produced significantly higher levels of IL-10 compared with mTg-primed, untreated, control mice. Administration of anti-IL-10R Ab into GM-CSF-treated mice abrogated GM-CSF-induced suppression of EAT, as indicated by increased mTg-specific T cell responses, thyroid lymphocyte infiltration, and follicular destruction. Interestingly, in vivo blockade of IL-10R did not affect GM-CSF-induced expansion of CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells. However, IL-10-induced immunosuppression was due to its direct effects on mTg-specific effector T cells. Taken together, these results indicated that IL-10, produced by CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells that were probably induced by semimature DCs, is essential for disease suppression in GM-CSF-treated mice.

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IL-10-Producing CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells Play a Critical Role in Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor-Induced Suppression of Experimental Autoimmune Thyroiditis