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STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS
卷 11, 期 5, 页码 348-362出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10253890701820166
关键词
chemokines; colitis; cytokines; inflammation; inflammatory bowel disease; water avoidance stress
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- Laboratory Animal Resources (AstraZeneca R D Molndal)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition with alternating active and quiescent phases of inflammation. Stress has been suggested as a factor triggering a relapse of IBD. We investigated the role of repetitive psychological stress [water avoidance stress (WAS)] in reactivating colonic inflammation in a murine model of dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced chronic colitis. Colitis was induced in C57BL/6 female mice by exposure to 3% DSS (5 days). During chronic inflammation (day 34), mice underwent repetitive WAS (1h/day/7 days) and were given a sub-threshold concentration of DSS (1%, 5 days) or normal water to drink. At euthanasia (day 40), inflammatory parameters were assessed (colon inflammatory score, levels of inflammatory markers and histology). Mice with chronic colitis exposed to WAS had higher macroscopic and microscopic colonic inflammatory scores and levels of inflammatory markers (mainly IL-1 beta, IL12p40 and CCL5) than non-stressed mice. Inflammatory responses were further enhanced by the presence of a sub-threshold concentration of DSS (1%). In mice without chronic inflammation, neither WAS nor 1% DSS, individually or in combination, elicited any inflammation. Hence stress, per se, reactivates a quiescent chronic inflammation, but does not initiate inflammation in healthy mice. Stress should be regarded as an environmental factor triggering IBD relapses in humans.
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