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  • Title: Natural, lectin- and phorbol ester-induced cellular cytotoxicity in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
    Author: Aparicio-Pagés MN, Verspaget HW, Peña AS, Weterman IT, Mieremet-Ooms MA, van der Zon JM, de Bruin PA, Lamers CB.
    Journal: J Clin Lab Immunol; 1988 Nov; 27(3):109-13. PubMed ID: 3246686.
    Abstract:
    Cellular cytotoxicity of peripheral blood cells was studied in patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis and healthy controls. The spontaneous cytotoxicity or natural killer (NK) cell activity, evaluated against the erythroleukemia K-562 and the colon cancer CaCo-2 and HT-29 cell lines, of total mononuclear cells and enriched lymphocytes was depressed in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients compared to the controls. Phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) increased the cytotoxicity in the patients, to a similar maximal level as the stimulated controls. In contrast, the phorbol ester, phorbol-myristate-acetate (PMA), enhanced the cytotoxicity in patients and in controls, but in the patients not to the levels of the controls. No cytotoxicity was observed in the monocyte-enriched fraction both in patients and controls using the same assay system. A similar small but significant stimulation of monocyte cytotoxicity was obtained by PHA and PMA in patients and in controls. In conclusion, inflammatory bowel disease is associated with a depressed NK cell activity in peripheral blood which is not target specific. PHA but not PMA could restore the deficient NK cell activity. Monocytes seem not to be involved in the decreased NK cell activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
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