A primary dysregulation in the immunoregulatory role of the intestinal mucosal epithelial cell in inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis? Biology of inflammatory response as tissue pattern entities in Crohn's versus ulcerative colitis
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A primary dysregulation in the immunoregulatory role of the intestinal mucosal epithelial cell in inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis? Biology of inflammatory response as tissue pattern entities in Crohn's versus ulcerative colitis
Abstract
Within a framework of dual involvement of mucosa and submucosa on the one hand, and of the muscularis propria of the bowel wall on the other, it might be valid to consider involvement of the vascular supply as the essential means in itself of not only causing the morphologic lesions in inflammatory bowel disease, but also especially in accounting for persisting patterns of inflammatory response both in ulcerative colitis and in Crohn's disease. Inflammatory bowel disease as a group constitutes a spectrum of biologic and pathobiologic manifestations in terms not only of inflammatory involvement of the bowel wall but also in terms of how the bowel in its turn deals with inflammation as a pathologic lesion in its own right. Parameters of inflammatory bowel activity transcend simple concepts of etiology and pathogenesis as applicable to category disorders such as infections or bowel ischemia. Indeed, the strictly characterized initiation of the inflammatory bowel response as a function of defective regulation of the antigenicity of the luminal contents on the one hand, and on interactions between nitric oxide and free oxygen radicals on the other, might help determine a persistence of tissue damage in inflammatory bowel disease that is either relapsing/remitting or chronic in progression. In a final analysis, perhaps, there might be involved a single central form of pathway induction of dysregulated immune reactivity arising from an early disturbance in activation patterns as induced by the onset of luminal antigenicity at an early or specific-stage, further characterized perhaps by specific forms of intestinal epithelial defects of the bowel mucosa in patients subsequently developing inflammatory bowel disease. Specific genetic markers for disease susceptibility and for therapeutic responsiveness are particularly of interest. The Nucleotide binding oligomerization Domain 2 (NOD2) would recognize microbial lipopolysaccharide or else mark systemic responses to pathogens that are pathogenic to evolving inflammatory bowel disease.
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