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In situ evidence of involvement of Schwann cells in ulcerative colitis: autocrine and paracrine signaling by A disintegrin and metalloprotease-17-mediated tumor necrosis factor alpha production.

Abstract：

:An increase in S100 protein-positive cells has been reported in inflammatory bowel diseases, mainly Crohn disease. These cells were interpreted as myeloid-derived dendritic cells, chiefly in follicular areas. We were prompted to assess the nature of these cells in interfollicular areas of inflamed colonic mucosa in ulcerative colitis and study their involvement in tumor necrosis factor alpha production, the main inflammatory cytokine in ulcerative colitis. The number and distribution of cells expressing S100 protein, nerve growth factor receptor, CD68, CD1a, CD83, and calretinin were studied in samples from 16 patients with active ulcerative colitis using simple and double immunohistochemistry. Then, the localization in S100 protein-positive cells of (1) tumor necrosis factor alpha, (2) its sheddase A disintegrin and metalloprotease-17, and (3) the receptors TNFR1 was assessed using double immunofluorescence followed by confocal microscopy. In active ulcerative colitis, there was an increased number in S100 protein-positive cells in interfollicular areas of colonic mucosa compared with quiescent ulcerative colitis, nonulcerative colitis, or normal mucosa. All S100 protein-positive cells ensheathed calretinin-positive axons, indicating their Schwann cell origin. No CD1a- or CD83-positive dendritic cells were detected. Double immunofluorescence studies showed that in normal colon, Schwann cells of the mucosa and submucosal plexuses weakly expressed A disintegrin and metalloprotease-17 but did not express tumor necrosis factor alpha. By contrast, in active ulcerative colitis, they expressed both A disintegrin and metalloprotease-17 and tumor necrosis factor alpha. Schwann cells as well as calretinin-positive axons strongly expressed TNFR1. This study shows (1) a Schwann cell proliferation in the inflamed colonic mucosa during active ulcerative colitis and (2) that Schwann cells produce tumor necrosis factor alpha. Tumor necrosis factor alpha is thus likely to stimulate Schwann cell proliferation through an autocrine/paracrine mechanism.

journal_name

Hum Pathol

journal_title

Human pathology

authors

Mosnier JF,Jarry A,Camdessanché JP,Antoine JC,Laboisse CL

doi

10.1016/j.humpath.2008.11.017

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-08-01 00:00:00

pages

1159-67

issue

eissn

0046-8177

issn

1532-8392

pii

S0046-8177(09)00007-0

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In situ evidence of involvement of Schwann cells in ulcerative colitis: autocrine and paracrine signaling by A disintegrin and metalloprotease-17-mediated tumor necrosis factor alpha production.