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Dirk Elewaut

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Inflammasome activation in Ankylosing Spondylitis is associated to gut dysbiosis

2021

Objective: We undertook this study to evaluate the activation and functional relevance of inflammasome pathways in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients and rodent models and their relationship to dysbiosis. Methods: An inflammasome pathway was evaluated in the gut and peripheral blood from 40 AS patients using quantitative reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), immunohistochemistry (IHC), flow cytometry, and confocal microscopy, and was compared to that of 20 healthy controls and 10 patients with Crohn’s disease. Bacteria was visualized using silver stain in human samples, and antibiotics were administered to HLA–B27–transgenic rats. The NLRP3 inhibitor MCC950 was admini…

0301 basic medicineMaleInflammasomesmedicine.medical_treatmentInterleukin-1betaInterleukin-23Mice0302 clinical medicineCrohn DiseaseNLRC4Interleukin 23Immunology and AllergyIleitisHLA-B27 AntigenSulfonamidesReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionCaspase 1Interleukin-17Interleukin-18InflammasomeIleitisMiddle AgedImmunohistochemistryAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA-Binding ProteinsCytokineIndenesFemaleInterleukin 17Rats Transgenicmedicine.drugAdultAdolescentImmunologyReceptors Cell Surface03 medical and health sciencesAIM2Young AdultRheumatologyIleumNLR Family Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinmedicineAnimalsHumansSpondylitis AnkylosingFurans030203 arthritis & rheumatologybusiness.industryCalcium-Binding Proteinsmedicine.diseaseGastrointestinal MicrobiomeRatsCARD Signaling Adaptor Proteins030104 developmental biologyCase-Control StudiesImmunologyDysbiosisJointsbusinessDysbiosis
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FRI0152 Inflammasomes activation occurs in the inflamed tissues of as patients and drives il-23 expression

2018

Background A growing body of evidences indicate that the aberrant activation of innate immune systems, occurring in genetically predisposed patients, drives inflammatory processes in Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS).1 Objectives Aim of this study was to evaluate the activation and the functional relevance of inflammasome pathways in patients with AS. Methods Intestinal, synovial and bone marrow expression of inflammasome pathways, pyroptosis and IL-1b and IL-18 was evaluated in AS patients. Organic acid extraction was performed on ileal samples as previously described on.2 The expression of the metabolite-sensing receptors GPR43 and GPR109A involved in the regulation of the intestinal inflammaso…

Innate immune systembusiness.industryMonocytePyroptosisInflammasomemedicine.diseaseAIM2medicine.anatomical_structureNLRC4ImmunologymedicineGlucose homeostasisbusinessDysbiosismedicine.drugFRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2018
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Dysbiosis and zonulin upregulation alter gut epithelial and vascular barriers in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

2017

BackgroundDysbiosis has been recently demonstrated in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) but its implications in the modulation of intestinal immune responses have never been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of ileal bacteria in modulating local and systemic immune responses in AS.MethodsIleal biopsies were obtained from 50 HLA-B27+ patients with AS and 20 normal subjects. Silver stain was used to visualise bacteria. Ileal expression of tight and adherens junction proteins was investigated by TaqMan real-time (RT)-PCR and immunohistochemistry. Serum levels of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), LPS-binding protein (LPS-BP), intestinal fatty acid-BP (iFABP) and zonulin…

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