Colonic Epithelial Surfactant Protein D Expression Correlates with Inflammation in Clinical Colonic Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is expressed in the intestinal epithelium and is essential for innate host defense and regulation of inflammatory responses. Genetic variations of SP-D are associated with IBD, but the effects of SP-D in clinical disease development have not been clarified. We hypothesized that colonic epithelial SP-D expression is increased in parallel with intestinal inflammation with the capacity to dampen deleterious effects.

METHODS: Surgical specimens from IBD patients including Crohn's disease (n = 9) and ulcerative colitis (n = 18) were scored for expression of SP-D and inflammatory activity. Cohoused Sftpd+/+ and Sftpd-/- mouse littermates were subjected to dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) for 7 days to induce colitis. Colonic tissue was scored for histologic damage and analyzed for inflammatory markers and expression of SP-D.

RESULTS: Surgical specimens from IBD patients showed a strong positive correlation between immunoscore for SP-D and inflammatory activity (R2 = 0.78, P < 0.0001). In mice, colonic epithelial SP-D expression was very low, and DSS-induced colitis was unaffected by SP-D deficiency, although DSS induced transcription of colonic SP-D to a mild degree.

CONCLUSIONS: A strong positive correlation between inflammatory activity and epithelial expression of SP-D was observed in surgical specimens from IBD patients supporting a role for SP-D in clinical disease. The in vivo study was inconclusive due to very low intestinal SP-D expression in the mouse. Further studies are warranted to support that increased SP-D expression in the human colonic epithelium is protective against intestinal inflammation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Inflammatory bowel diseases - 25(2019), 8 vom: 17. Juli, Seite 1349-1356

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nexoe, Anders B [VerfasserIn]
Pilecki, Bartosz [VerfasserIn]
Von Huth, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Husby, Steffen [VerfasserIn]
Pedersen, Andreas A [VerfasserIn]
Detlefsen, Sönke [VerfasserIn]
Marcussen, Niels [VerfasserIn]
Moeller, Jesper B [VerfasserIn]
Holmskov, Uffe [VerfasserIn]
Sorensen, Grith L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9042-14-2
Biomarkers
Colitis
Cytokines
Dextran Sulfate
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Journal Article
Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Surfactant protein D

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Date Completed 22.04.2020

Date Revised 22.04.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ibd/izz009

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NLM293791937