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Korean J Parasitol. 2014;52(3):273-80.

Increased intestinal epithelial cell turnover and intestinal motility in Gymnophalloides seoi-infected C57BL/6 mice.

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제1저자 이상협 · 교신저자 채종일

소속 (3)
  1. Department of Internal Medicine and Liver research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
  2. Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
  3. Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea. ; Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 463-707, Korea.

Abstract

The changing patterns of goblet cell hyperplasia, intestinal epithelial cell turnover, and intestinal motility were studied in ICR and C57BL/6 mice infected with Gymnophalloides seoi (Digenea: Gymnophallidae). Whereas ICR mice retained G. seoi worms until day 7 post-infection (PI), C57BL/6 mice showed a rapid worm expulsion within day 3 PI. Immunosuppression with Depo-Medrol significantly delayed the worm expulsion in C57BL/6 mice. Goblet cell counts were increased in both strains of mice, peaking at day 1 PI in C57BL/6 mice and slowly increasing until day 7 PI in ICR mice. In C57BL/6 mice infected with G. seoi, newly proliferating intestinal epithelial cells were remarkably increased in the crypt, and the increase was the highest at day 1 PI. However, in ICR mice, newly proliferating intestinal epithelial cells increased slowly from day 1 to day 7 PI. Intestinal motility was increased in G. seoi-infected mice, and its chronological pattern was highly correlated with the worm load in both strains of mice. Meanwhile, immunosuppression of C57BL/6 mice abrogated the goblet cell proliferation, reduced the epithelial cell proliferation, and suppressed the intestinal motility. Goblet cell hyperplasia, increased intestinal epithelial cell turnover, and increased intestinal motility should be important mucosal defense mechanisms in G. seoi-infected C57BL/6 mice.

Keywords

Gymnophalloides seoiepithelial cell turnoverintestinal motilityworm expulsion

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1 Worm recovery according to mouse strains (C57BL/6 and ICR) after infection with 200 metacercariae of Gymnophalloides seoi from day 1 to day 7 PI. Statistically significant differences (P<0.05) compared with immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice are denoted by an asterisk (*).
Fig. 2
Fig. 2 Goblet cell (GC) counts of C57BL/6 and ICR mice. (A) GC counts in C57BL/6 (immunocompetent and immunosuppressed) and ICR mice infected with 200 G. seoi metacercariae. Statistically significant differences (P<0.05) compared with immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice were illustrated as an asterisk (*). In immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice, GC counts at day 3 (**) and day 5 (**) were significantly higher (P<0.05) than the figure of uninfected C57BL/6 mice (day 0). (B) Changes of GC counts in the small intestine of immunocompetent and immunosuppressed C57BL/6 mice infected with 200 G. seoi metacercariae. GCs were counted in the middle portion of the jejunum after PAS stain at days 0 (uninfected), 1, 3, 5, and 7 PI.
Fig. 3
Fig. 3 Intestinal epithelial cell turnover of C57BL/6 and ICR mice. (A) Intestinal epithelial cell turnover was measured in C57BL/6 (immunocompetent and immunosuppressed) and ICR mice infected with 200 G. seoi metacercariae. The number of newly proliferating intestinal epithelial cells in the crypt was counted at 10 villus-crypt unit and averaged. Statistically significant differences (P<0.05) compared with C57BL/6 mice were expressed as an asterisk (*). In immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice, dark brown-stained epithelial cell counts at day 1 (**), day 3 (**), day 5 (**), and day 7 (**) were significantly higher (P<0.05) than the figure of uninfected C57BL/6 mice (day 0). (B) Changes of epithelial cell turnover in immunocompetent and immunosuppressed C57BL/6 mice in the middle part of the jejunum infected with 200 G. seoi metacercariae at days 0 (uninfected), 1, 3, 5, and 7 PI. The nuclei of proliferating epithelial cells are stained dark brown by bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) immunohistochemical staining.
Fig. 4
Fig. 4 Intestinal contractility of C57BL/6 (immunocompetent and immunosuppressed) and ICR mice as measured by charcoal meal gastrointestinal-transit test. Statistically significant differences (P<0.05) compared with uninfected mice are illustrated as an asterisk (*). In immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice, the ratio of charcoal meal transit at day 3 (**) and day 5 (**) were significantly higher (P<0.05) than the ratio of uninfected C57BL/6 mice (day 0).

그림 출처: PubMed Central 공개 논문 (PMC4096638)

Conflict of interest statement

We have no conflict of interest related to this work.

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출판 형태
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
저널
The Korean journal of parasitology · eISSN 1738-0006
전자 출판
2014-06-26
MeSH
Animals · Cell Proliferation* · Disease Models, Animal · Epithelial Cells / physiology · Gastrointestinal Motility* · Helminthiasis / physiopathology · Hyperplasia · Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / physiopathology · Intestinal Mucosa / physiopathology · Male · Mice, Inbred C57BL · Mice, Inbred ICR · Trematode Infections / physiopathology
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