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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 283, Issue 1, Pages G180-G186Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00514.2001
Keywords
inflammatory bowel disease; experimental colitis; kallikrein-kinin system; contact system
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01-DK-43735, P30-DK-34987] Funding Source: Medline
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Genetically susceptible Lewis rats injected in the intestinal wall with peptidoglycan- polysaccharide (PG-APS) polymers develop chronic granulomatous enterocolitis concomitant with activation of the kallikrein-kinin system. To elucidate the role of high-molecular-weight kininogen (HK) in chronic enterocolitis, we back crossed Brown-Norway rats having a HK deficiency with Lewis rats for five generations. Two new strains were produced, wild-type F5 (F5WT) and HK deficient (F5HKd), each with a similar to97% Lewis genome. The HK values of F5WT and F5HKd rat plasma were 0.62 +/- 0.20 and 0.08 +/- 0.03 U/ml, respectively. In PG-APS-injected rats, chronic inflammation was measured by using gross gut score, histological inflammation, liver granuloma, and white blood cell count. The mean gross gut scores were significantly lower in the F5HKd than in the F5WT rats. Plasma T-kininogen was significantly less in F5HKd. These results indicate the importance of the kallikrein-kinin system in this model of chronic enterocolitis and systemic inflammation.
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