ELISpot Assay as a Tool to Study Oxidative Stress in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
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Enzyme-Linked Immuno Spot (ELISpot) assay is widely used for vaccine development, cancer and AIDS research, and autoimmune
disease studies. The output of an ELISpot assay is a formation of colored spots which appear at the sites of cells releasing
cytokines, with each individual spot representing a single cytokine-releasing cell.
We have shown that hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress was causing ∼twofold decrease in the number of lymphocytes secreting
the TH1 cytokines IFN-gamma and IL-2, as well as chemokine IL-8 and cytokine TNF alpha. However, the number of cells secreting
TH2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-5 in hydrogen peroxide-treated group did not change. Our ELISpot data indicate that oxidative stress
may affect TH1-TH2 cytokine secretion balance which, in turn, may underlie developments of various pathological conditions.
We adopted ELISpot assay for studying oxidative stress in human peripheral blood lymphocytes by analyzing the acute effect
of hydrogen peroxide treatment on the frequency of cells secreting IFN-gamma, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-8, and TNF-alpha.
