Immune mediators of chronic pelvic pain syndrome

Stephen F. Murphy, Anthony J. Schaeffer, Praveen Thumbikat
In: Nature Reviews Urology · 2014 · vol. 11(5) , pp. 259–269 · doi:10.1038/nrurol.2014.63 · PMID:24686526 · W2027329477
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Chronic pelvic pain syndrome might involve immune dysregulation with mast cell activation and loss of tolerance, potentially mediated by T cells and leading to neural sensitization.

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This paper reviews immune mediators and mechanisms underlying chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS), an umbrella diagnosis for prostatitis types IIIa/IIIb affecting up to 16% of men, focusing on how inflammation may be initiated even when disease is diagnosed as “abacterial.” It proposes that early infection could trigger mast-cell–mediated inflammation in the prostate, leading to loss of regulatory CD4+ T-cell control, constitutively active mast cells, reduced self-tolerance, and subsequent neural sensitization mediated by mast-cell factors such as tryptase and nerve growth factor. A key caveat stated is that despite substantial biomarker and immunological classification studies using human samples, no diagnostically beneficial biomarkers have been identified and the mechanisms remain incompletely established. Relevance to endometriosis: the paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match around chronic pelvic pain and immune/neuroinflammatory mechanisms.

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