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CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY
卷 119, 期 3, 页码 456-463出版社
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01155.x
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Bacteroides fragilis; epithelial cells; cytokines
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Bacteroides fragilis toxin (BFT) has been shown to be capable of inducing intestinal mucosal inflammation in animals. Such inflammation may be responsible for diarrhoea, which occurs in some, but not all human carriers of enterotoxigenic strains of B. fragilis (ETBF). We have studied responses to BFT by different human intestinal epithelial cell lines and subsequently investigated the expression of IL-8 and TGF-beta by T84 cells. The latter were selected because their responses to BFT, characterized by morphological changes and cell death by apoptosis, were similar to those we have recently observed in primary human colonocytes. We show that BFT dose-dependently increased the expression of transcripts and protein of the polymorphonuclear cell chemoattractant IL-8. BFT also dose-dependently induced the release of TGF-beta, which has been shown to enhance the repair of the injured intestinal epithelium. However, the secreted TGF-beta was almost exclusively in the biologically inactive form, as determined by Mv1Lu bioassay. Our studies therefore suggest that exposure of colonic epithelial cells in vivo to high concentrations of BFT can initiate an inflammatory response via secreted IL-8. BFT-induced release of latent TGF-beta may facilitate the subsequent repair of the injured epithelium, following its activation by proteases from neighbouring cells. Variation in cytokine responses by colonic epithelial cells in vivo could be an important determinant in the development of mucosal disease and symptoms in response to ETBF.
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