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Relationship between levels of angiogenic and lymphangiogenic factors and the endoscopic, histological and clinical activity, and acute-phase reactants in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Authors: Algaba, A  Linares, PM  Fernandez-Contreras, ME  Ordonez, A  Trapaga, J  Guerra, I  Chaparro, M  De la Poza, G  Gisbert, JP  Bermejo, F 
Citation: Algaba A, etal., J Crohns Colitis. 2013 Dec;7(11):e569-79. doi: 10.1016/j.crohns.2013.04.005. Epub 2013 May 1.
RGD ID: 11079180
Pubmed: PMID:23642997   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.crohns.2013.04.005   (Journal Full-text)

BACKGROUND: Angiogenic and lymphangiogenic factors (ALFs) may play an important role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Our aims were to evaluate levels of ALFs in serum and the colonic mucosa culture supernatant (MCS) of patients with active and quiescent IBD and healthy subjects and to correlate them with the endoscopic, clinical and histological activity and with acute-phase reactants. METHODS: This is a prospective study of 28 controls and 72 IBD patients. Serum and MCS concentration of VEGFA, VEGFC, VEGFD, VEGFR1, VEGFR2, VEGFR3, PlGF, Ang1, Ang2 and Tie2 were measured by ELISA. Activity was established by specific indexes (CDAI, Mayo score, SES-CD, D'Haens scale and Riley index). Acute-phase reactants were routinely measured. RESULTS: MCS levels of all ALFs except VEGFR3 were higher in patients with endoscopic (p<0.05), clinical (p<0.05) and histological (p<0.01) activity than in those without it. In serum, VEGFA, VEGFC and Ang1 and VEGFA and Ang1 levels were lower in patients in remission than in patients with clinical and histological activity, respectively (p<0.05). There was a correlation between serum and MCS concentrations for VEGFD, VEGFR3, PlGF and Tie2 (r=0.25, r=0.48, r=-0.45 and r=0.36; p<0.05). Ang2 in MCS was the best predictor for the diagnosis of endoscopic, histological and clinical activity (area under ROC curve>0.8). CONCLUSIONS: MCS determination suggests a local increase in ALFs that correlates with IBD activity. Although the correlation between ALFs in serum and MCS was not good, the study of some of these factors as possible targets of new drugs for IBD constitutes a key new line of research.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
inflammatory bowel disease disease_progressionIEP 11079180protein:increased expression:serum and colon:RGD 
inflammatory bowel disease disease_progressionISOVEGFA (Homo sapiens)11079180; 11079180protein:increased expression:serum and colon:RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Vegfa  (vascular endothelial growth factor A)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Vegfa  (vascular endothelial growth factor A)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
VEGFA  (vascular endothelial growth factor A)


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