YKL-40 as a novel diagnostic biomarker in Toxoplasmosis
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Keywords
Toxoplasmosis, Toxoplasma gondii, YKL-40, biomarkers, diagnosis.
Abstract
Toxoplasmosis is one of the most globally prevalent zoonotic infection caused by an obligate, intracellular parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasmosis actively triggers an acute immune response and inflammatory reactions, causes serious pathological changes in various tissues in the human body, and more evidently localizes in different nervous tissues of various body organs. The YKL-40 is a glycoprotein secreted by numerous cell types in different patterns associated with various pathological processes such as inflammatory reactions, tissue remodeling, fibrosis, and thought it is a disease-specific biomarker of neuroinflammation. Therefore, The current study aimed to determine if the YKL-40 is markedly increased in toxoplasmosis or not and if its level is different between the acute and chronic phases of the infection to determine if it can be used as a clinically useful biomarker in the diagnosis, determination of disease severity and follow up of toxoplasmosis. Accordingly, a total of eighty serum samples were collected from previously diagnosed female patients with toxoplasmosis of different ages. In addition, ten healthy female sera were used as a control. Patients were firstly divided into two groups (30 patients with acute infection and 50 patients with chronic infection) depending on the results of detecting the specific anti-Toxoplasma IgM and IgG by ELISA. The level of YKL-40 was then measured in the patients’ serum by ELISA. The statistical analysis of data clearly disclosed very highly significant differences (p <0.001) between the level of YKL-40 in the acute infection group and healthy controls, chronic infection group and healthy controls, and between the groups of acute and chronic infection. These findings lead to conclude that YKL-40 classify as a unique and sophisticated biomarker in the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis where it can vitally be used to detect the stage of the disease whether acute or chronic, beside its ability to detect the infection.
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4. El Bissati K, Levigne P, Lykins J, Adlaoui EB, Barkat A, Berraho A, et al. Global initiative for congenital toxoplasmosis: an observational and international comparative clinical analysis. 2018;7(1):1-14.
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22. Laing C, Blanchard N, McConkey GAJTiI. Noradrenergic signaling and neuroinflammation crosstalk regulate Toxoplasma gondii-induced behavioral changes. 2020.
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28. Denkers, Eric Y., and Ricardo T. Gazzinelli. "Regulation and function of T-cell-mediated immunity during Toxoplasma gondii infection." Clinical microbiology reviews 11.4 (1998): 569-588.
29. Wang J-L, Li T-T, Elsheikha HM, Chen K, Cong W, Yang W-B, et al. Live Attenuated Pru: Δ cdpk2 Strain of Toxoplasma gondii Protects Against Acute, Chronic, and Congenital Toxoplasmosis. 2018;218(5):768-77.
30. Santana SS, Paiva VF, Carvalho FR, Barros HLS, Silva TL, Barros PSC, et al. A peptide originated from Toxoplasma gondii microneme 8 displaying serological evidence to differentiate recent from chronic human infection. 2021:102394.
31. Ybañez RHD, Ybañez AP, Nishikawa YJFiC, Microbiology I. Review on the current trends of toxoplasmosis serodiagnosis in humans. 2020;10:204.
32. Ripoll Pastor G. Chimeric synthetic peptides as diagnostic tools: a novel IgM-specific immunoassay for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis: Driving innovation towards next generation IgM immunoassays 2021.
33. Robert-Gangneux F, Dardé M-L. Epidemiology of and Diagnostic Strategies for Toxoplasmosis. 2012;25(2):264-96.
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36. Devakumar D, Bamford A, Ferreira MU, Broad J, Rosch RE, Groce N, et al. Infectious causes of microcephaly: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management. 2018;18(1):e1-e13.
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41. Salomon, Joanna, et al. "Chitinase-3-like protein 1 (ykl-40) reflects the severity of symptoms in atopic dermatitis." Journal of immunology research 2017 (2017).
42. Gurung R, Choong AM, Woo CC, Foo R, Sorokin VJIjoms. Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation in abdominal aortic aneurysm. 2020;21(17):6334.
43. Majewski, Sebastian, et al. "Longitudinal and comparative measures of serum chitotriosidase and YKL-40 in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis." Frontiers in immunology (2022): 421.
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50. Al-Kuraishy, Hayder M., et al. "Toxoplasmosis and risk of endothelial dysfunction: Role of oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory mediators." Arch. Clin. Infect. Dis 14 (2019): e95563.
51. Gandhi, Puneet, et al. "Circulatory YKL-40 & NLR: underestimated prognostic indicators in diffuse glioma." International Journal of Molecular and Cellular Medicine 7.2 (2018): 111.
52. Coriati, Adèle, et al. "Ykl-40 as a clinical biomarker in adult patients with cf: Implications of a chi3l1 single nucleotide polymorphism in disease severity." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 20.6 (2021): e93-e99.
53. Mazur, Marzena, et al. "Chitinases and Chitinase-Like Proteins as Therapeutic Targets in Inflammatory Diseases, with a Special Focus on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22.13 (2021): 6966.
54. Pinteac, Rucsanda, Xavier Montalban, and Manuel Comabella. "Chitinases and chitinase-like proteins as biomarkers in neurologic disorders." Neurology-Neuroimmunology Neuroinflammation 8.1 (2021).
55. Jankowska-Konsur, Alina, et al. "Chitinase-3-like Protein 1 (YKL-40): A New Biomarker of Inflammation in Pyoderma Gangrenosum." Acta Dermato-Venereologica (2021).
56. Kwon, Yoowon, et al. "Serum YKL-40 Levels Are Associated with the Atherogenic Index of Plasma in Children." Mediators of inflammation 2020 (2020).
57. Heukels, Peter, et al. "Inflammation and immunity in IPF pathogenesis and treatment." Respiratory Medicine 147 (2019): 79-91.
58. Chandan, Kumari, Meenakshi Gupta, and Maryam Sarwat. "Role of host and pathogen-derived microRNAs in immune regulation during infectious and inflammatory diseases." Frontiers in Immunology (2020): 3081.
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Farah Abd AL-Zahra Shahad, Ahmed A. Mohammed, & Ghaith Ali Jasim. (2022). YKL-40 as a novel diagnostic biomarker in Toxoplasmosis. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 29(02). https://doi.org/10.47750/jptcp.2022.932
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