Journal
DIGESTION
Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages 52-59Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000159379
Keywords
Inflammation; Apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter; Tumor necrosis factor-alpha; Interleukin-1 beta; Interleukin-8; c-jun; c-fos
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- Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart
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Background: Non-obese gallstone patients exhibit a diminished expression of apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT) in terminal ileum. Crohn's ileitis demonstrates a significant downregulation of this transporter. Aim: To test whether subclinical ileal inflammation contributes to gallstone disease. Methods: Biopsies from terminal ileum of female subjects with gallstone disease (n = 7), active Crohn's disease (n = 17) and controls (n = 22) were investigated. mRNA expression of ASBT, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF- alpha), interleukin (IL)- 1 beta, IL-8, c-jun and c-fos was measured. c-jun and c-fos protein levels were determined and hematoxylin and eosin staining was applied for ileal histology. Results: ASBT expression was comparably low both in gallstone (47% of controls, p = 0.0093) and Crohn's disease (42% of controls, p = 0.0008). In gallstone disease there was a non-significant trend towards elevated TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta, but all cytokines were increased in active Crohn's disease. c-jun and c-fos were slightly diminished in patients with gallstones. Neither cytokines nor transcription factors correlated significantly with ASBT. The gallstone-associated ileal biopsies exhibited no histological inflammation. Conclusion: Although the expression of ASBT was similarly diminished in both gallstone and Crohn's disease, subclinical ileal inflammation does not appear to be relevant in gallstone patients. The mechanisms of transcriptional repression of ASBT in both diseases are apparently different. Copyright (C) 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel
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