The Effect of Dietary Glutathione and Coenzyme Q10 on the Prevention and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice

2004 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu ◽  
Russell ◽  
Smith ◽  
Bronson ◽  
Milbury ◽  
...  

Because reactive oxygen species have been implicated as mediators of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), we evaluated the potential preventive and therapeutic effects of two dietary antioxidants, glutathione (GSH) and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) on dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis in mice. Fifty female 8-wk old Swiss-Webster mice were randomly assigned to 4 groups for a pre-treatment 'prevention' study: (1) GSH (1% of diet); (2) CoQ10 (200 mg/kg/d); (3) DSS only (3% of drinking water); (4) control (no treatment). The mice in groups 1 and 2 were fed with GSH or CoQ10 for 21 wks, and the mice in groups 1, 2 and 3 were provided DSS from wk 7 for 4 cycles (1 cycle = 1 wk DSS followed by 2-wk water). Another 50 mice were randomly assigned to 4 groups for a 21-wk 'treatment' study where the mice in groups 1, 2, and 3 were administered DSS for 6 cycles (18 wks) to induce colitis. GSH and CoQ10 were added from wk 7 until the completion of the protocol. Loose stools and hemocult positivity were modestly but significantly reduced with GSH or CoQ10 at several periods during the intervention in both the prevention and treatment studies. In contrast, histological evaluation revealed increases in colonic dysplasia and ulceration with GSH or CoQ10. Thus, in this mouse model, GSH and CoQ10 appear to have a beneficial effect on acute signs of IBD, but may have an adverse impact on the chronic pathophysiology of the disease. Further studies using additional animal models are required to determine whether GSH or CoQ10 provide a favorable or unfavorable benefit:risk ratio in the prevention or treatment of IBD.

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 1812-1823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Johswich ◽  
Myriam Martin ◽  
André Bleich ◽  
Michael Kracht ◽  
Oliver Dittrich-Breiholz ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengru Guo ◽  
Xinran Liu ◽  
Yiwei Tan ◽  
Fangyuan Kang ◽  
Xinghua Zhu ◽  
...  

Sucralose is one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners, free of nutrients and calories. It’s approval and uses correlate many of the worldwide epidemiological changes of inflammatory bowel disease...


1998 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuji SHIMADA ◽  
Takao AOYAMA ◽  
Fuminori SHIBUYA ◽  
Katsuyoshi NAKAJIMA ◽  
Hajime KOTAKI ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
A. V. Borota ◽  
A. A. Borota ◽  
E. V. Onishchenko

The risk of thrombotic complications is known to be 3 times higher in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than in healthy individuals, with the relative risk being 15 times higher during the periods of relapses. Aim. To study and generalize literature data available on the prevention and treatment of IBD thrombotic complications.Key findings. In the сonditions under study, the presence of chronic inflammation and increased bleeding of the intestinal wall is shown to activate the coagulation system, impair the fibrinolysis system and reduce the activity of natural anticoagulation mechanisms. The concentration of fibrinogen — a protein of the acute inflammation phase — increases significantly. This results in an imbalance of the blood coagulation system with a tendency to hypercoagulation, which significantly increases the risk of thrombotic complications and the disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome. In turn, the activation of the coagulation cascade may trigger the inflammatory response, which eventually leads to the formation of a vicious circle between chronic inflammation and thrombosis. The pathogenesis of thrombosis in inflammatory colon diseases is a multifactor process, which remains to be understood.Conclusion.The management of patients with IBD in combination with thromboembolic complications requires an individual multidisciplinary approach. Taking into account the pathogenetic factors, the following options are possible in the prevention and treatment of thrombotic complications in IBD: strengthening the basic therapy of the primary disease; administration of prophylactic doses of anticoagulants under dynamic continuous laboratory control in the acute period using the methods of conservative therapy of thrombotic complications (elastic compression of the lower extremities) in the period of exacerbation of the primary disease.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silva ◽  
Pinto ◽  
Mateus

The preclinical studies in vivo provide means of characterizing physiologic interactions when our understanding of such processes is insufficient to allow replacement with in vitro systems and play a pivotal role in the development of a novel therapeutic drug cure. Chemically induced colitis models are relatively easy and rapid to develop. The 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS) colitis model is one of the main models in the experimental studies of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) since inflammation induced by TNBS mimics several features of Crohn’s disease. This review aims to summarize the existing literature and discuss different protocols for the induction of chronic model of TNBS-induced colitis. We searched MEDLINE via Pubmed platform for studies published through December 2018, using MeSH terms (Crohn Disease.kw) OR (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.kw) OR (Colitis, Ulcerative.kw) AND (trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid.kw) AND (disease models, animal.kw) AND (mice.all). The inclusion criteria were original articles, preclinical studies in vivo using mice, chronic model of colitis, and TNBS as the inducer of colitis and articles published in English. Chronic TNBS-induced colitis is made with multiple TNBS intrarectal administrations in an average dose of 1.2 mg using a volume lower than 150 μL in 50% ethanol. The strains mostly used are Balb/c and C57BL/6 with 5–6 weeks. To characterize the preclinical model the parameters more used include body weight, stool consistency and morbidity, inflammatory biomarkers like interferon (IFN)-γ, myeloperoxidase (MPO), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-6, and IL-10, presence of ulcers, thickness or hyperemia in the colon, and histological evaluation of the inflammation. Experimental chronic colitis is induced by multiple rectal instillations of TNBS increasing doses in ethanol using Balb/c and C57BL/6 mice.


2010 ◽  
Vol 298 (6) ◽  
pp. G878-G883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengxin Lu ◽  
Stacey M. Fernandes ◽  
Alvin E. Davis

The complement and contact systems may be involved in the pathophysiological process of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). C1 inhibitor (C1INH) is the most important inhibitor of both the complement and contact systems. We evaluated the role of these systems and the effect of both active and inactive forms of C1INH (iC1INH) in dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis mouse model. Three percent DSS was used in drinking water to induce colitis in complement C3-deficient (C3−/−) mice, bradykinin type 2 receptor deficient (Bk2R−/−) mice, and C57BL/6 mice. After ten days DSS exposure, C3−/− mice exhibited markedly less weight loss than wild-type (WT) mice (12 ± 3.3% vs. 30 ± 1.2%, P < 0.05) and developed a milder disease-activity index (DAI), histological score, colon shortening, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) elevation ( P < 0.05, respectively). The Bk2R−/− mice were not protected from the disease. Seven-day treatment with either native C1INH or iC1INH reduced the severity of the disease in WT mice, as indicated by decreased weight loss (15 ± 1.8%, 14 ± 2.1% vs. 30 ± 1.2%, P < 0.05, respectively), DAI, intestinal tissue damage, and MPO elevation compared with untreated WT DSS control mice ( P < 0.05, respectively). These findings suggest that complement plays a role in the development of DSS-induced colitis and that blockade of the complement system might be useful for the acute phase of IBD treatment. C1INH, however, leads to an amelioration of DSS-induced colitis via a mechanism that does not involve the inhibition of complement or contact system activation but does result in significant suppression of leukocyte infiltration.


Mutagenesis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Christopher Kirby ◽  
Ayesha Baig ◽  
Svetlana L Avlasevich ◽  
Dorothea K Torous ◽  
Shuchang Tian ◽  
...  

Abstract Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an important risk factor for gastrointestinal cancers. Inflammation and other carcinogenesis-related effects at distal, tissue-specific sites require further study. In order to better understand if systemic genotoxicity is associated with IBD, we exposed mice to dextran sulfate sodium salt (DSS) and measured the incidence of micronucleated cells (MN) and Pig-a mutant phenotype cells in blood erythrocyte populations. In one study, 8-week-old male CD-1 mice were exposed to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4% w/v DSS in drinking water. The 4-week in-life period was divided into four 1-week intervals—alternately on then off DSS treatment. Low volume blood samples were collected for MN analysis at the end of each week, and cardiac blood samples were collected at the end of the 4-week period for Pig-a analyses. The two highest doses of DSS were observed to induce significant increases in reticulocyte frequencies. Even so, no statistically significant treatment-related effects on the genotoxicity biomarkers were evident. While one high-dose mouse showed modestly elevated MN frequencies during the DSS treatment cycles, it also exhibited exceptionally high reticulocyte frequencies (e.g. 18.7% at the end of the second DSS cycle). In a second study, mice were treated with 0 or 4% DSS for 9–18 consecutive days. Exposure was continued until rectal bleeding or morbidity was evident, at which point the treatment was terminated and blood was collected for MN analysis. The Pig-a assay was conducted on samples collected 29 days after the start of treatment. The initial blood specimens showed highly elevated reticulocyte frequencies in DSS-exposed mice (mean ± SEM = 1.75 ± 0.10% vs. 13.04 ± 3.66% for 0 vs. 4% mice, respectively). Statistical analyses showed no treatment-related effect on MN or Pig-a mutant frequencies. Even so, the incidence of MN versus reticulocytes in the DSS-exposed mice were positively correlated (linear fit R2 = 0.657, P = 0.0044). Collectively, these results suggest that in the case of the DSS CD-1 mouse model, systemic effects include stress erythropoiesis but not remarkable genotoxicity. To the extent MN may have been slightly elevated in a minority of individual mice, these effects appear to be secondary, likely attributable to stimulated erythropoiesis.


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