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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-4-7
pubmed:abstractText
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic bowel inflammatory disorder in which the pathogenic role of immune alterations has been suggested, but the immunologic mechanisms responsible for the inflammatory reaction are still poorly understood. We investigated the profile of cytokine secretion by T-cell clones generated from gut tissue specimens of four patients with active CD, five patients with ulcerative colitis, and four patients with noninflammatory gut disorders (NIGDs). The great majority of CD4+ T-cell clones generated from the gut of patients with CD produced high levels of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) but low or undetectable amounts of interleukin-4 (IL-4), whereas substantial proportions of CD4+ T-cell clones derived from the gut of patients with either ulcerative colitis or NIGDs produced IL-4 in addition to IFN-gamma. The immunohistochemical analysis revealed high numbers of activated CD4+ T cells showing IFN-gamma but not IL-4 reactivity, as well as substantial proportions of IL-12-containing macrophages, in the intestinal lamina propria and muscularis propria of patients with CD, whereas these cells were very rare or undetectable in patients with NIGDs. Culturing T cells from gut biopsy specimens of a patient with CD in the presence of a neutralizing anti-IL-12 antibody down-regulated the development of IFN-gamma-producing CD4+ T cells. These findings suggest that a critical event in the initiation of bowel inflammatory lesions in CD may involve up-regulation of IL-12 production, resulting in conditions that maximally promote type 1 T-helper immune responses.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0002-9440
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
150
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
823-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Type 1 T-helper cell predominance and interleukin-12 expression in the gut of patients with Crohn's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Internal Medicine and Immunoallergology, University of Florence, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't