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Mast Cells Infiltrating Inflamed or Transformed Gut Alternatively Sustain Mucosal Healing or Tumor Growth.
Alice RigoniAmy LewisMario P. ColomboAndrew SilverCarla GuarnottaAlessia BurocchiAroldo RizzoSabina SangalettiClaudio TripodoLuca DanelliLucia Bongiovannisubject
Cancer ResearchPathologyColorectal cancerCell CountAnimals; Animals Congenic; Azoxymethane; Carcinoma; Cell Count; Cell Transformation Neoplastic; Cells Cultured; Colitis; Colonic Neoplasms; Dextran Sulfate; Epithelial Cells; Humans; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Interleukin-33; Intestinal Mucosa; Mast Cells; Mice; Mice Inbred C57BL; Mice Knockout; Models Biological; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit; Receptors Interleukin; Regeneration; Serine Endopeptidases; Species Specificity; Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; Cancer Research; Oncology; Medicine (all)chemistry.chemical_compoundMiceAnimals CongenicMast CellMast CellsIntestinal MucosaCells CulturedMice KnockoutColonic NeoplasmMedicine (all)Dextran SulfateSerine EndopeptidasesColitisIntestinal epitheliumSpecific Pathogen-Free OrganismsSerine EndopeptidaseProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kitCell Transformation NeoplasticOncologyColonic Neoplasmsmedicine.symptomHumanmedicine.medical_specialtyAzoxymethaneInflammationModels BiologicalImmune systemSpecies SpecificitymedicineSpecific Pathogen-Free OrganismAnimalsHumansRegenerationColitisEpithelial CellAnimalAzoxymethanebusiness.industryInflammatory Bowel DiseaseCarcinomaEpithelial CellsReceptors Interleukinmedicine.diseaseInflammatory Bowel DiseasesInterleukin-33Interleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 ProteinMice Inbred C57BLchemistrybusinessWound healingColitiHomeostasisdescription
Abstract Mast cells (MC) are immune cells located next to the intestinal epithelium with regulatory function in maintaining the homeostasis of the mucosal barrier. We have investigated MC activities in colon inflammation and cancer in mice either wild-type (WT) or MC-deficient (KitW-sh) reconstituted or not with bone marrow-derived MCs. Colitis was chemically induced with dextran sodium sulfate (DSS). Tumors were induced by administering azoxymethane (AOM) intraperitoneally before DSS. Following DSS withdrawal, KitW-sh mice showed reduced weight gain and impaired tissue repair compared with their WT littermates or KitW-sh mice reconstituted with bone marrow-derived MCs. MCs were localized in areas of mucosal healing rather than damaged areas where they degraded IL33, an alarmin released by epithelial cells during tissue damage. KitW-sh mice reconstituted with MC deficient for mouse mast cell protease 4 did not restore normal mucosal healing or reduce efficiently inflammation after DSS withdrawal. In contrast with MCs recruited during inflammation-associated wound healing, MCs adjacent to transformed epithelial cells acquired a protumorigenic profile. In AOM- and DSS-treated WT mice, high MC density correlated with high-grade carcinomas. In similarly treated KitW-sh mice, tumors were less extended and displayed lower histologic grade. Our results indicate that the interaction of MCs with epithelial cells is dependent on the inflammatory stage, and on the activation of the tissue repair program. Selective targeting of MCs for prevention or treatment of inflammation-associated colon cancer should be timely pondered to allow tissue repair at premalignant stages or to reduce aggressiveness at the tumor stage. Cancer Res; 75(18); 3760–70. ©2015 AACR.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | Cancer research |