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Pallotta L, Pisano A, Vona R, Cappelletti M, Pignataro MG, Tattoli I, Maselli MA, Tarallo M, Casella G, Caronna R, Tancredi A, Scotti GB, Scalese G, Matarrese P, Giordano C, Severi C. From diverticulosis to complicated diverticular disease: Progression of myogenic alterations and oxidative imbalance. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2024; 36:e14850. [PMID: 38924329 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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BACKGROUND The natural history and pathophysiology of diverticular disease (DD) are still uncertain. An ex-vivo human complicated DD (cDD) model has recently shown a predominant transmural oxidative imbalance. The present study aims to evaluate whether the previously described alterations may precede the symptomatic form of the disease. METHODS Colonic surgical samples obtained from patients with asymptomatic diverticulosis (DIV), complicated DD, and controls were systematically and detailed morphologically and molecularly analyzed. Therefore, histologic, histomorphometric, immunohistochemical evaluation, and gene and protein expression analysis were performed to characterize colonic muscle changes and evaluate chronic inflammation, oxidative imbalance, and hypoxia. Functional muscle activity was tested on strips and isolated cells in response to contractile and relaxant agents. KEY RESULTS Compared with controls, DD showed a marketed increase in muscle layer thickness, smooth muscle cell syncytium disarray, and increased interstitial fibrosis; moreover, the observed features were more evident in the cDD group. These changes mainly affected longitudinal muscle and were associated with altered contraction-relaxation dynamics and fibrogenic switch of smooth muscle cells. Chronic lymphoplasmacytic inflammation was primarily evident in the mucosa and spared the muscle. A transmural increase in carbonylated and nitrated proteins, with loss of antioxidant molecules, characterized both stages of DD, suggesting early oxidative stress probably triggered by recurrent ischemic events, more pronounced in cDD, where HIF-1 was detected in both muscle and mucosa. CONCLUSION & INFERENCES The different DD clinical scenarios are part of a progressive process, with oxidative imbalance representing a new target in the management of DD.
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- Lucia Pallotta
- Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Gender-Specific Medicine, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory, National Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Surgical Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgical Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgical Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Methods and Models for Economy, Territory and Finance, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Gender-Specific Medicine, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Baidoo N, Sanger GJ. The human colon: Evidence for degenerative changes during aging and the physiological consequences. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2024:e14848. [PMID: 38887160 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND The incidence of constipation increases among the elderly (>65 years), while abdominal pain decreases. Causes include changes in lifestyle (e.g., diet and reduced exercise), disease and medications affecting gastrointestinal functions. Degenerative changes may also occur within the colo-rectum. However, most evidence is from rodents, animals with relatively high rates of metabolism and accelerated aging, with considerable variation in time course. In humans, cellular and non-cellular changes in the aging intestine are poorly investigated. PURPOSE To examine all available studies which reported the effects of aging on cellular and tissue functions of human isolated colon, noting the region studied, sex and age of tissue donors and study size. The focus on human colon reflects the ability to access full-thickness tissue over a wide age range, compared with other gastrointestinal regions. Details are important because of natural human variability. We found age-related changes within the muscle, in the enteric and nociceptor innervation, and in the submucosa. Some involve all regions of colon, but the ascending colon appears more vulnerable. Changes can be cell- and sublayer-dependent. Mechanisms are unclear but may include development of "senescent-like" and associated inflammaging, perhaps associated with increased mucosal permeability to harmful luminal contents. In summary, reduced nociceptor innervation can explain diminished abdominal pain among the elderly. Degenerative changes within the colon wall may have little impact on symptoms and colonic functions, because of high "functional reserve," but are likely to facilitate the development of constipation during age-related challenges (e.g., lifestyle, disease, and medications), now operating against a reduced functional reserve.
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- Nicholas Baidoo
- School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK
- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Broad J, Kung VWS, Palmer A, Elahi S, Karami A, Darreh-Shori T, Ahmed S, Thaha MA, Carroll R, Chin-Aleong J, Martin JE, Saffrey MJ, Knowles CH, Sanger GJ. Changes in neuromuscular structure and functions of human colon during ageing are region-dependent. Gut 2019; 68:1210-1223. [PMID: 30228216 PMCID: PMC6594449 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-316279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine if human colonic neuromuscular functions decline with increasing age. DESIGN Looking for non-specific changes in neuromuscular function, a standard burst of electrical field stimulation (EFS) was used to evoke neuronally mediated (cholinergic/nitrergic) contractions/relaxations in ex vivomuscle strips of human ascending and descending colon, aged 35-91 years (macroscopically normal tissue; 239 patients undergoing cancer resection). Then, to understand mechanisms of change, numbers and phenotype of myenteric neurons (30 306 neurons stained with different markers), densities of intramuscular nerve fibres (51 patients in total) and pathways involved in functional changes were systematically investigated (by immunohistochemistry and use of pharmacological tools) in elderly (≥70 years) and adult (35-60 years) groups. RESULTS With increasing age, EFS was more likely to evoke muscle relaxation in ascending colon instead of contraction (linear regression: n=109, slope 0.49%±0.21%/year, 95% CI), generally uninfluenced by comorbidity or use of medications. Similar changes were absent in descending colon. In the elderly, overall numbers of myenteric and neuronal nitric oxide synthase-immunoreactive neurons and intramuscular nerve densities were unchanged in ascending and descending colon, compared with adults. In elderly ascending, not descending, colon numbers of cell bodies exhibiting choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity increased compared with adults (5.0±0.6 vs 2.4±0.3 neurons/mm myenteric plexus, p=0.04). Cholinergically mediated contractions were smaller in elderly ascending colon compared with adults (2.1±0.4 and 4.1±1.1 g-tension/g-tissue during EFS; n=25/14; p=0.04); there were no changes in nitrergic function or in ability of the muscle to contract/relax. Similar changes were absent in descending colon. CONCLUSION In ascending not descending colon, ageing impairs cholinergic function.
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- John Broad
- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, NEO, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, NEO, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK,Department of Pathology, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK,Department of Surgery, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK,Department of Pathology, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK,Department of Surgery, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK,Department of Pathology, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Gender-differences of in vitro colonic motility after chemo- and radiotherapy in humans. BMC Pharmacol Toxicol 2018; 19:49. [PMID: 30075817 PMCID: PMC6090764 DOI: 10.1186/s40360-018-0238-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background The aim of the present in vitro study was to investigate, in different genders, motor responses in surgical colonic specimens from patients with rectal cancer undergoing and not undergoing chemotherapy with capecitabine and radiotherapy. Methods This in vitro study was conducted from October 2015 to August 2017 at the Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory at the National Institute “S. de Bellis” after collecting samples at the Department of Surgery. Segments of sigmoid colon were obtained from 15 patients (Male (M)/Female (F) = 8/7; control group, CG) operated on for elective colorectal resection for rectal cancer without obstruction and 14 patients (M/F = 7/7; study group, SG) operated on for elective colorectal resection for rectal cancer who also received chemotherapy, based on capecitabine twice daily, and radiotherapy. Isometric tension was measured on colonic circular muscle strips exposed to increasing carbachol or histamine concentrations to obtain concentration-response curves. The motor responses to electrically evoked stimulation were also investigated. Results In males, carbachol and histamine caused concentration-dependent contractions in the CG and SG. An increased sensitivity and a higher response to carbachol and histamine were observed in SG than CG (P < 0.01). On the contrary, in females, the response to carbachol was not significantly different in CG from the SG and the maximal responses to carbachol were greater in CG than in SG (P < 0.001). The same applied to histamine for half-maximal effective concentrations and maximal response in that they were not significantly different in CG from the SG. Electrically evoked contractions were significantly more pronounced in males, especially in the SG (P < 0.05). Conclusions This preliminary in vitro study has shown gender differences in motor responses of colonic circular muscle strips in patients who had received chemotherapy with capecitabine and radiotherapy.
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Broad J, Kung VWS, Boundouki G, Aziz Q, De Maeyer JH, Knowles CH, Sanger GJ. Cholinergic interactions between donepezil and prucalopride in human colon: potential to treat severe intestinal dysmotility. Br J Pharmacol 2014; 170:1253-61. [PMID: 24032987 DOI: 10.1111/bph.12397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2013] [Revised: 08/27/2013] [Accepted: 08/30/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cholinesterase inhibitors such as neostigmine are used for acute colonic pseudo-obstruction, but cardio-bronchial side-effects limit use. To minimize side-effects, lower doses could be combined with a 5-HT4 receptor agonist, which also facilitates intestinal cholinergic activity. However, safety concerns, especially in the elderly, require drugs with good selectivity of action. These include the AChE inhibitor donepezil (used for Alzheimer's disease, with reduced cardio-bronchial liability) and prucalopride, the first selective, clinically available 5-HT4 receptor agonist. This study examined their individual and potential synergistic activities in human colon. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Neuronally mediated muscle contractions and relaxations of human colon were evoked by electrical field stimulation (EFS) and defined phenotypically as cholinergic, nitrergic or tachykinergic using pharmacological tools; the effects of drugs were determined as changes in 'area under the curve'. KEY RESULTS Prucalopride increased cholinergically mediated contractions (EC50 855 nM; 33% maximum increase), consistent with its ability to stimulate intestinal motility; donepezil (477%) and neostigmine (2326%) had greater efficacy. Concentrations of donepezil (30-100 nM) found in venous plasma after therapeutic doses had minimal ability to enhance cholinergic activity. However, donepezil (30 nM) together with prucalopride (3, 10 μM) markedly increased EFS-evoked contractions compared with prucalopride alone (P = 0.04). For example, the increases observed with donepezil and prucalopride 10 μM together or alone were, respectively, 105 ± 35%, 4 ± 6% and 35 ± 21% (n = 3-7, each concentration). CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Potential synergy between prucalopride and donepezil activity calls for exploration of this combination as a safer, more effective treatment of colonic pseudo-obstruction.
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- J Broad
- Neurogastroenterology Group, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Sanger GJ, Broad J, Kung V, Knowles CH. Translational neuropharmacology: the use of human isolated gastrointestinal tissues. Br J Pharmacol 2014; 168:28-43. [PMID: 22946540 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2012.02198.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2012] [Revised: 08/08/2012] [Accepted: 08/23/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Translational sciences increasingly emphasize the measurement of functions in native human tissues. However, such studies must confront variations in patient age, gender, genetic background and disease. Here, these are discussed with reference to neuromuscular and neurosecretory functions of the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Tissues are obtained after informed consent, in collaboration with surgeons (surgical techniques help minimize variables) and pathologists. Given the difficulties of directly recording from human myenteric neurones (embedded between muscle layers), enteric motor nerve functions are studied by measuring muscle contractions/relaxations evoked by electrical stimulation of intrinsic nerves; responses are regionally dependent, often involving cholinergic and nitrergic phenotypes. Enteric sensory functions can be studied by evoking the peristaltic reflex, involving enteric sensory and motor nerves, but this has rarely been achieved. As submucosal neurones are more accessible (after removing the mucosa), direct neuronal recordings are possible. Neurosecretory functions are studied by measuring changes in short-circuit current across the mucosa. For all experiments, basic questions must be addressed. Because tissues are from patients, what are the controls and the influence of disease? How long does it take before function fully recovers? What is the impact of age- and gender-related differences? What is the optimal sample size? Addressing these and other questions minimizes variability and raises the scientific credibility of human tissue research. Such studies also reduce animal use. Further, the many differences between animal and human GI functions also means that human tissue research must question the ethical validity of using strains of animals with unproved translational significance.
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- G J Sanger
- Neurogastroenterology Group, Blizard Institute, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
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Maselli MA, Trisolini P, Ignazzi A, Notarnicola M, Lorusso D, Pezzolla F, Iacobazzi D, Scilimati A, Perrone MG. Myogenic effect of SP-1f and SP-1h two novel β3-adrenoceptor (β3-AR) agonists in human colonic circular smooth muscle. Eur J Pharmacol 2014; 723:62-6. [PMID: 24275352 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2013.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 11/08/2013] [Accepted: 11/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The effect of two novel β3-adrenoceptor (β3-AR) agonists SP-1f and SP-1h on human colon circular smooth muscle contractility and β3-AR mRNA expression have been determined. β3-AR is ascertained co-participates to the control of the gut motility. Isometric tension on human colon muscle strips was measured in response to increasing concentrations of SP-1f, SP-1h and (-)-isoprenaline, alone and in the presence of Betaxolol, ICI 11,855 and SR 59230A (β1-, β2- and β3-AR antagonists, respectively). (-)-Isoprenaline concentration-dependently relaxed circular muscle strips with an EC50=0.32±0.06μM. Such an effect was antagonized either by the contemporaneously presence of Betaxolol and ICI 11,855 [(-)-isoprenaline EC50=1.75±0.35μM, pKB=7.88±0.10] or by Betaxolol, ICI 11,855 and SR 59230A [(-)-isoprenaline EC50=3.49±0.38μM, pKB=8.51±0.14]. Besides, SP-1f and SP-1h concentration-dependently relaxed circular muscle strips with an EC50=0.35±0.07μM and 0.45±0.12μM, respectively. These values remained unchanged by blocking the β1- and β2-AR. The presence of SR 59230A antagonized the relaxing effect of SP-1f (EC50=3.51±0.94μM, pKB=8.93±0.16) and did not modify the SP-1h relaxing potency. In colon circular smooth muscle and in mucosa, β3-AR mRNA expression levels were found to be 0.39±0.70 and 0.26±0.12 (P<0.05), respectively. Such results provide further evidence of the β3-adrenoceptor functional role in the human colon and the crucial contribution of SP-1f to the control of the gut dysmotility.
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- Maria Antonietta Maselli
- Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", 70013 Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", 70013 Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", 70013 Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", 70013 Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Surgery Department, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", 70013 Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Surgery Department, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology "S. de Bellis", 70013 Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari "A. Moro", Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari "A. Moro", Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari "A. Moro", Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
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Boudry G, Jamin A, Chatelais L, Gras-Le Guen C, Michel C, Le Huërou-Luron I. Dietary protein excess during neonatal life alters colonic microbiota and mucosal response to inflammatory mediators later in life in female pigs. J Nutr 2013; 143:1225-32. [PMID: 23761650 DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.175828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The interplay between the colonic microbiota and gut epithelial and immune cells during the neonatal period, which establishes the structure of the microbiota and programs mucosal immunity, is affected by the diet. We hypothesized that protein-enriched milk formula would disturb this interplay through greater flux of protein entering the colon, with consequences later in life. Piglets were fed from postnatal day (PND) 2 to 28 either a normal-protein formula (NP; 51 g protein/L) or high-protein formula (HP; 77 g protein/L) and weaned at PND28, when they received standard diets until PND160. HP feeding transiently increased the quantity of protein entering the colon (PND7) but did not change the microbiota composition at PND28, except for a higher production of branched-chain fatty acids (BCFAs) in an in vitro fermentation test (P < 0.05). HP piglets had greater colonic mucosa densities of cluster of differentiation (CD) 3(+) and CD172(+) cells and lower Il-1β and Tnfα mRNA levels at PND28 (P < 0.05). Later in life (PND160), HP females, but not males, had a higher increase in colonic permeability after ex vivo oxidative stress and higher cytokine secretion in response to lipopolysaccharide in colonic explant cultures than NP females (P < 0.05). HP females also had lower colonic amounts of F. prausnitzii and BCFAs (P < 0.05). BCFAs displayed a dose-dependent protection against inflammation-induced alteration of barrier function in Caco-2 cells (P < 0.05). In conclusion, protein-enriched formula had little impact on colonic microbiota, but it modified colonic immune cell development and had a long-term effect on adult colonic mucosa sensitivity to inflammatory insults, probably through microbiotal and hormonal factors.
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Maselli MA, Trisolini P, Petitta C, Lorusso D, Cicenia A, Scirocco A, Pezzolla F, Severi C. Myogenic regional responsiveness to cholinergic and vipergic stimulation in human colon. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2012; 24:867-e399. [PMID: 22672206 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2012.01927.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Differences in the actions of enteric neurotransmitters on colonic circular and longitudinal muscle layers have not been clearly determined, nor the possible existence of intrinsic myogenic phenotypes that might contribute to regional differences in human colon motor activity. The aim of this study was to analyze the direct pharmaco-mechanical coupling of carbachol (CCh) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) on human colonic smooth muscle strips and cells. METHODS Circular and longitudinal muscle strips and cells were obtained from 15 human specimens of ascending and sigmoid colon. Both isometric tension on muscle strips and contraction and relaxation on cells were measured in response to increasing CCh and VIP concentrations. KEY RESULTS Circular muscle strips of ascending colon were more sensitive to the effect of CCh than that of sigmoid colon, EC(50) values being, respectively, 4.15μmolL(-1) and 8.47μmolL(-1) (P<0.05), although there were no differences in maximal responses. No regional differences were observed in longitudinal muscle strips or in smooth muscle cells. Maximal responses to CCh were higher on circular than longitudinal muscle strips and cells throughout the colon. A greater sensitivity to VIP was observed in ascending colon compared with sigmoid colon, both in circular (EC(50:) 0.041 and 0.15μmolL(-1) , respectively, P<0.01) and longitudinal (EC(50:) 0.043 and 0.09μmolL(-1) , respectively, P<0.05) strips, and similar differences were observed in longitudinal smooth muscle cells (EC(50:) 44.85 and 75.24nmolL(-1) , respectively, P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES Regional myogenic differences in pharmaco-mechanical coupling between the enteric neurotransmitters and smooth muscle contribute to the complex regional motor patterns of human colon.
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- M A Maselli
- Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory, Scientific Institute of Gastroenterology S. de Bellis, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy.
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