• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Cytokine and endothelial cell adhesion molecule expression in interleukin-10-deficient mice
  • Beteiligte: Kawachi, Shigeyuki; Jennings, Stephen; Panes, Julian; Cockrell, Adam; Laroux, F. Stephen; Gray, Laura; Perry, Michael; van der Heyde, Henry; Balish, Edward; Granger, D. Neil; Specian, Robert A.; Grisham, Matthew B.
  • Erschienen: American Physiological Society, 2000
  • Erschienen in: American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.2000.278.5.g734
  • ISSN: 1522-1547; 0193-1857
  • Schlagwörter: Physiology (medical) ; Gastroenterology ; Hepatology ; Physiology
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>The objectives of this study were to quantify cytokine mRNA levels and endothelial cell adhesion molecule message and protein expression in healthy wild-type and interleukin-10-deficient (IL-10<jats:sup>−/−</jats:sup>) mice that develop spontaneous and chronic colitis. We found that colonic message levels of IL-1, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, interferon-γ, lymphotoxin-β, and transforming growth factor-β were elevated in colitic mice 10- to 35-fold compared with their healthy wild-type controls. In addition, colonic message levels of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), and mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule-1 (MAdCAM-1) were found to be increased 10-, 5-, and 23-fold, respectively, in colitic IL-10<jats:sup>−/−</jats:sup>mice compared with their wild-type controls. Immunoradiolabeling as well as immunohistochemistry revealed large and significant increases in vascular surface expression of colonic ICAM-1, VCAM-1, and MAdCAM-1 in the mucosa as well as the submucosa of the colons of colitic mice. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that deletion of IL-10 results in the sustained production of proinflammatory cytokines, leading to the upregulation of adhesion molecules and infiltration of mononuclear and polymorphonuclear leukocytes into the cecal and colonic interstitium.</jats:p>
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