Biological Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Partly Restores Intestinal Innate Lymphoid Cell Subtype Equilibrium

Copyright © 2020 Creyns, Jacobs, Verstockt, Cremer, Ballet, Vandecasteele, Vanuytsel, Ferrante, Vermeire, Van Assche, Ceuppens and Breynaert..

Patients with Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) suffer from chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation. While many studies focused on adaptive immunity, less is known about the role of innate immune cells in these diseases. Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are recently identified cells with a high cytokine-producing capacity at mucosal barriers. The aim was to study the impact of biological treatment on ILC in CD and UC. Patients initiating anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF), ustekinumab, or vedolizumab treatment were prospectively followed up and peripheral and intestinal ILCs were determined. In the inflamed gut tissue of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, we found an increase of ILC1 and in immature NKp44- ILC3, whereas there was a decrease of mature NKp44+ ILC3 when compared to healthy controls (HCs). Similar but less pronounced changes in ILC1 were observed in blood, whereas circulating NKp44- ILC3 were decreased. Fifteen percent of CD patients had NKp44+ ILC3 in blood and these cells were not detected in blood of HCs or UC patients. Therapy with three different biologicals (ustekinumab targeting the IL-12/23 cytokines, anti-TNF and vedolizumab) partly restored intestinal ILC subset equilibrium with a decrease of ILC1 (except for ustekinumab) and an increase of NKp44+ ILC3. Anti-TNF also mobilized more NKp44+ ILC3 in circulation. As ILC1 are proinflammatory cells and as NKp44+ ILC3 contribute to homeostasis of intestinal mucosa, the observed effects of biologicals on ILCs might contribute to their clinical efficacy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 11(2020) vom: 18., Seite 1847

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Creyns, Brecht [VerfasserIn]
Jacobs, Inge [VerfasserIn]
Verstockt, Bram [VerfasserIn]
Cremer, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Ballet, Vera [VerfasserIn]
Vandecasteele, Roselien [VerfasserIn]
Vanuytsel, Tim [VerfasserIn]
Ferrante, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Vermeire, Séverine [VerfasserIn]
Van Assche, Gert [VerfasserIn]
Ceuppens, Jan L [VerfasserIn]
Breynaert, Christine [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9RV78Q2002
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Biological therapy
CD
Circulation
FU77B4U5Z0
Gastrointestinal Agents
Inflammatory bowel disease
Innate lymphoid cells
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
UC
Ustekinumab
Vedolizumab

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Date Completed 12.04.2021

Date Revised 12.04.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2020.01847

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31553818X