Biomarkers for Monitoring of Changes in Disease Activity in Ulcerative Colitis

BACKGROUND: In recent years, various biomarkers of ulcerative colitis (UC) have emerged; however, few studies have simultaneously examined the utility of multiple biomarkers for monitoring disease activity. Additionally, serum leucine-rich alpha-2 glycoprotein (LRG), a new biomarker, may show a blunt response to anti-TNF antibody therapy. This prospective study explored effective biomarkers that could monitor disease activity changes in patients with UC. In addition, we examined the effect of anti-TNF antibody therapy on changes in LRG.

METHODS: Blood and stool samples were collected twice from patients with UC: at baseline and at least 8 weeks later. Changes in serum LRG, interleukin (IL)-6, prealbumin (pre-Alb), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), CRP, and fecal calprotectin (FC) were measured and correlated with changes in disease activity. The relationship between anti-TNF antibody therapy and LRG levels was also examined in patients with the same disease activity.

RESULTS: Forty-eight patients with UC (96 samples) were analyzed. ΔLRG and ΔIL-6 correlated strongly with the change in the partial Mayo (pMayo) score between the two time points (ΔpMayo) (r = 0.686, 0.635, respectively). In contrast, FC and IL-6 were particularly accurate predictors of clinical remission, and their area under the curves (AUCs) were significantly higher than that of CRP (AUC: 0.81, 0.76 vs. 0.50; p = 0.001, 0.005). No association was found between the administration of anti-TNF antibody preparations and the LRG values.

CONCLUSIONS: Correlations were found between changes in UC disease activity and LRG, IL-6, pre-Alb, hs-CRP, CRP, and FC. LRG reflects disease activity during anti-TNF antibody therapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical medicine - 12(2023), 22 vom: 18. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro [VerfasserIn]
Kakimoto, Kazuki [VerfasserIn]
Hara, Azusa [VerfasserIn]
Mizuta, Noboru [VerfasserIn]
Numa, Keijiro [VerfasserIn]
Kinoshita, Naohiko [VerfasserIn]
Nakazawa, Kei [VerfasserIn]
Koshiba, Ryoji [VerfasserIn]
Hirata, Yuki [VerfasserIn]
Ota, Kazuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Miyazaki, Takako [VerfasserIn]
Nakamura, Shiro [VerfasserIn]
Sakagami, Kayoko [VerfasserIn]
Arimitsu, Shoko [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Hiroaki [VerfasserIn]
Nishikawa, Hiroki [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-TNF antibody therapy
Biomarkers
Fecal calprotectin
Journal Article
LRG (leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein)
Ulcerative colitis

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Date Revised 27.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/jcm12227165

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364939958