Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease

Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic intestinal inflammation caused by gluten ingestion in genetically predisposed individuals. Overt-CD and potential-CD are the two main forms of gluten intolerance in pediatric patients with different grades of intestinal mucosa lesion and clinical management. For over...

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Autores principales: Serena Vitale, Mariantonia Maglio, Stefania Picascia, Ilaria Mottola, Erasmo Miele, Riccardo Troncone, Renata Auricchio, Carmen Gianfrani
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b05c17d4b88e4b8c9e65597280e87dbb2021-11-25T18:42:33ZIntestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease10.3390/pharmaceutics131119711999-4923https://doaj.org/article/b05c17d4b88e4b8c9e65597280e87dbb2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/13/11/1971https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4923Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic intestinal inflammation caused by gluten ingestion in genetically predisposed individuals. Overt-CD and potential-CD are the two main forms of gluten intolerance in pediatric patients with different grades of intestinal mucosa lesion and clinical management. For overt-CD patients the gluten-free diet is mandatory, while for potential-CD the dietary therapy is recommended only for those subjects becoming clinically symptomatic overtime. To date, specific early biomarkers of evolution to villous atrophy in potential-CD are lacking. We recently observed an expansion of TCRγδ+ T cells and a concomitant disappearance of IL4-producing T cells in the intestinal mucosa of overt-CD patients compared to potential-CD children, suggesting the involvement of these two cells subsets in the transition from potential-CD to overt-CD. In this study, we demonstrated that the intestinal densities of IL4+ T cells inversely correlated with TCRγδ+ T cell expansion (<i>p</i> < 0.005) and with the serum levels of anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (<i>p</i> < 0.01). The changes of these two cell subsets strongly correlated with mucosal lesions, according to the histological Marsh classification, as the transition from M0 to M3 lesions was associated with a significant reduction of IL4+ T cells (M0 vs. M1 <i>p</i> < 0.04, M0 vs. M3 <i>p</i> < 0.007) and an increase of TCRγδ+ T cells (M0 vs. M1 <i>p</i> < 0.05, M0 vs. M3 <i>p</i> < 0.0006). These findings strongly suggest that the detection of TCRγδ+ and IL4+ T cells could serve as cellular biomarkers of mucosal lesion and targets of novel immunomodulatory therapies for CD.Serena VitaleMariantonia MaglioStefania PicasciaIlaria MottolaErasmo MieleRiccardo TronconeRenata AuricchioCarmen GianfraniMDPI AGarticlepediatric celiac diseasebiomarkersvillous atrophyTCRγδ+ T cellsIL4translational researchPharmacy and materia medicaRS1-441ENPharmaceutics, Vol 13, Iss 1971, p 1971 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic pediatric celiac disease
biomarkers
villous atrophy
TCRγδ+ T cells
IL4
translational research
Pharmacy and materia medica
RS1-441
spellingShingle pediatric celiac disease
biomarkers
villous atrophy
TCRγδ+ T cells
IL4
translational research
Pharmacy and materia medica
RS1-441
Serena Vitale
Mariantonia Maglio
Stefania Picascia
Ilaria Mottola
Erasmo Miele
Riccardo Troncone
Renata Auricchio
Carmen Gianfrani
Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease
description Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic intestinal inflammation caused by gluten ingestion in genetically predisposed individuals. Overt-CD and potential-CD are the two main forms of gluten intolerance in pediatric patients with different grades of intestinal mucosa lesion and clinical management. For overt-CD patients the gluten-free diet is mandatory, while for potential-CD the dietary therapy is recommended only for those subjects becoming clinically symptomatic overtime. To date, specific early biomarkers of evolution to villous atrophy in potential-CD are lacking. We recently observed an expansion of TCRγδ+ T cells and a concomitant disappearance of IL4-producing T cells in the intestinal mucosa of overt-CD patients compared to potential-CD children, suggesting the involvement of these two cells subsets in the transition from potential-CD to overt-CD. In this study, we demonstrated that the intestinal densities of IL4+ T cells inversely correlated with TCRγδ+ T cell expansion (<i>p</i> < 0.005) and with the serum levels of anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (<i>p</i> < 0.01). The changes of these two cell subsets strongly correlated with mucosal lesions, according to the histological Marsh classification, as the transition from M0 to M3 lesions was associated with a significant reduction of IL4+ T cells (M0 vs. M1 <i>p</i> < 0.04, M0 vs. M3 <i>p</i> < 0.007) and an increase of TCRγδ+ T cells (M0 vs. M1 <i>p</i> < 0.05, M0 vs. M3 <i>p</i> < 0.0006). These findings strongly suggest that the detection of TCRγδ+ and IL4+ T cells could serve as cellular biomarkers of mucosal lesion and targets of novel immunomodulatory therapies for CD.
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author Serena Vitale
Mariantonia Maglio
Stefania Picascia
Ilaria Mottola
Erasmo Miele
Riccardo Troncone
Renata Auricchio
Carmen Gianfrani
author_facet Serena Vitale
Mariantonia Maglio
Stefania Picascia
Ilaria Mottola
Erasmo Miele
Riccardo Troncone
Renata Auricchio
Carmen Gianfrani
author_sort Serena Vitale
title Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease
title_short Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease
title_full Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease
title_fullStr Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal Cellular Biomarkers of Mucosal Lesion Progression in Pediatric Celiac Disease
title_sort intestinal cellular biomarkers of mucosal lesion progression in pediatric celiac disease
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/b05c17d4b88e4b8c9e65597280e87dbb
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