Publikationsdatenbank

Nematode modulation of inflammatory bowel disease (2012)

Art

Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Autoren

Whelan, Rose A K

Hartmann, Susanne

Rausch, Sebastian

Quelle

Protoplasma : an international journal of cell biology

Bandzählung: 249

Heftzählung: 4

Seiten: 871 – 886

ISSN: 1615-6102

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

Pubmed: 22086188

Kontakt

Institut für Immunologie

Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7-13
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 51834
immunologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease arising due to a culmination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle-associated factors and resulting in an excessive pro-inflammatory response to bacterial populations in the gastrointestinal tract. The prevalence of IBD in developing nations is relatively low, and it has been proposed that this is directly correlated with a high incidence of helminth infections in these areas. Gastrointestinal nematodes are the most prevalent parasitic worms, and they efficiently modulate the immune system of their hosts in order to establish chronic infections. Thus, they may be capable of suppressing unrelated inflammation in disorders such as IBD. This review describes how nematodes, or their products, suppress innate and adaptive pro-inflammatory immune responses and how the mechanisms involved in the induction of anti-nematode responses regulate colitis in experimental models and clinical trials with IBD patients. We also discuss how refinement of nematode-derived therapies should ultimately result in the development of potent new therapeutics of clinical inflammatory disorders.