Interaction of vasoactive intestinal peptide with rat small intestinal epithelial cells after intestinal resection

Specific binding of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and VIP-stimulated c y c l i c AMP accumulation were studied in small intestinal epithelial cells (both of crypt and villous levels) 3, 7 and 14 d after a 60% resection of the small intestine . The affinity, but not the binding capacity, of VIP receptors decreased during the adaptive hyperplastic response. Basal cyclic AMP levels were similar in cells of both control and resected rats. Resection induced a decrease of potency, but not of efficiency, of VIP on the stimulation of cyclic AMP accumulation.     

Relationship between intestinal microecology and the translocation of intestinal bacteria

It is now well known that endogenous bacteria can translocate from the intestinal tract and cause many of the complicating infections seen in severely ill, hospitalized patients. Of the hundreds of bacterial species in the intestinal tract, relatively few aerobic/facultative species appear to translocate with any frequency. Van der Waaij and colleagues (1971, 1972a, 1972b) originally proposed that, by a process termed colonization resistance, strictly anaerobic bacteria prevented the intestinal overgrowth and subsequent translocation of these potentially pathogenic aerobic/facultative bacteria. Selective antimicrobial decontamination, designed to maintain colonization resistance, has been effective in reducing the incidence of infectious morbidity in high risk patients. However, the mechanisms controlling bacterial translocation remain unclear, but appear to depend on host factors, as well as on factors inherent in the microbe itself. There is both clinical and experimental evidence supporting the concept that strictly anaerobic bacteria do not readily translocate. Bacteria that are able to survive within macrophages (e.g., Salmonella species and Listeria monocytogenes) translocate easier than others, and there is recent experimental evidence that normal intestinal bacteria may translocate to the draining mesenteric lymph node within host phagocytes. There is also evidence that anaerobic bacteria translocate along with facultative species in situations associated with intestinal epithelial damage, i.e., burn trauma, oral ricinoleic acid, and acute mesenteric ischemia. In contrast, recent experimental evidence demonstrates that facultative bacteria can translocate across a histologically intact intestinal epithelium, and that the ileal absorptive cell may be at least one portal of entry prior to transport into deeper tissues. It is anticipated that further clarification of the routes and mechanisms involved in bacterial translocation will provide new insights into the treatment and prevention of a significant proportion of the infectious morbidity seen in severely ill, hospitalized patients. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Lecture presented at the Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Society of Microbiology, Utrecht, 23 November, 1989.     

肠道微生物对肠道屏障功能完整性的维护机制研究概况

肠道微生物群是一个稳定且复杂的生态系统,可以通过形成菌膜屏障或促进肠道上皮细胞增殖分化等方式形成保护屏障,并在肠道病原菌感染和威胁期间维持和促进免疫稳态中起积极作用。本文重点叙述宿主-肠道微生物相互作用过程中抗病原菌感染的方式,以及肠道微生物参与合成抗菌化合物抵御肠道病原菌入侵和威胁的机制,为调控肠道微生物解决临床胃肠道疾病及其相关症状提供理论参考依据。     

术前补充益生菌对肠道手术患者术后肠道菌群 及肠黏膜屏障功能的影响

目的探讨术前补充益生菌对肠道手术患者术后肠道菌群及肠黏膜屏障功能的影响。方法选取肠道手术患者86例,随机分为观察组和对照组各43例。两组患者术前予以常规肠道准备,术后给予等营养支持及抗生素等治疗。观察组患者术前7 d开始加用双歧杆菌三联活菌胶囊温水口服,630 mg/次,2次/d。观察两组患者术后肠道功能恢复及感染并发症情况,并比较术前7 d及术后首次自然排便时两组患者肠道菌群数量及肠黏膜屏障指标变化。结果观察组患者术后肠鸣音恢复时间、肛门排气时间、排便时间均短于对照组(均P0.05),术后感染并发症的发生率低于对照组(P0.05)。术后首次自然排便时两组患者肠道双歧杆菌、乳杆菌数量及B/E值显著低于术前7 d时,大肠埃希菌数量高于术前7 d时(均P0.05),且观察组患者术后双歧杆菌、乳杆菌数量及B/E值均高于对照组,大肠埃希菌数量明显少于对照组(P0.05)。术后首次自然排便时两组患者血清D-乳酸和DAO水平高于术前7 d时(P0.05),且观察组患者术后D-乳酸和DAO水平低于对照组(P0.05)。结论肠道手术患者术前补充益生菌可调节肠道菌群,降低肠黏膜通透性,改善其肠道功能,减少术后感染并发症的发生率。     

Effect of intestinal ischaemia on intestinal VIP levels and VIP interaction with intestinal epithelial cells from rat

1. The number (but not the affinity) of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) receptors in small intestinal epithelial cells decreased following intestinal ischaemia in rats as compared to sham-operated animals. 2. There was a parallel decrease of the efficiency (but not the potency) of the neuropeptide upon cyclic AMP formation at the same level after intestinal ischaemia. 3. The surgical manipulation did not modify the level of VIP immunoreactivity in the gut segment studied. 4. These results suggest that the VIPergic system is not directly involved in the high loss of water and electrolytes that appears following intestinal ischaemia.     

Transfer of locally synthesized cholesterol from intestinal wall to intestinal lymph

The cholesterol-fed rat subjected to cannulation of the intestinal lymph duct and injected with acetate-2-(14)C has been utilized for a study of the mechanism by which cholesterol synthesized in the intestinal wall gains access to the circulation. It has been concluded that locally synthesized cholesterol is excreted bidirectionally, approximately half going into the lymph and half into the lumen. Furthermore, under the conditions of these experiments, little of the luminal cholesterol appears to be reabsorbed, which suggests that direct transfer from wall to lymph is the principal route for the entry of this endogenously derived cholesterol pool into the lymph and ultimately into the blood stream. Finally, it has been demonstrated that bile is required for this transfer of cholesterol from wall to lymph as well as for the absorption of dietary cholesterol.     

小鼠肠道优势菌群失衡肠黏液sIgA、黏液素的变化

目的研究肠道菌群失衡对小鼠肠黏膜机械屏障的影响,探讨优势菌群与肠道黏膜屏障的相互作用机制。方法利用ELISA法检测肠黏膜sIgA含量变化,RT-PCR技术及免疫组化法检测肠黏膜上皮细胞Mucin2、Mucin3和防御素mRNA转录产物的变化。结果菌群失衡小鼠小肠段肠黏膜sIgA水平下降,重度菌群失衡组与正常组比较下降显著（P〈0.05）,与轻度菌群失衡组相比下降明显。菌群失衡小鼠上皮细胞中的Mucin2、Mucin3和防御素mRNA转录产物与正常小鼠相比明显增高,在杯状细胞胞浆内Mucin2蛋白阳性表达增强,且重度菌群失衡组与轻度菌群失衡组小鼠比较,Mucin2、Mucin3和防御素增高明显。结论菌群失衡可导致肠黏膜sIgA分泌量随菌群失衡程度呈下降趋势,同时引起黏液层中黏液素和防御素分泌量增加。     

肠黏膜屏障与肠道菌群的相互关系

摘要：人类肠道中微生物群与肠道环境相互作用以维持机体健康。肠黏膜屏障主要由黏液层、肠道菌群、肠道免疫系统和肠上皮细胞本身的完整性等构成。肠道作为直接与大量菌群接触的器官,其屏障功能在肠道健康中的作用尤为显著。肠道菌群与肠道屏障相互作用,保持肠道菌群与肠道屏障相对稳定,肠道菌群参与肠道免疫反应的建立,共同建立机体天然防御系统,在保持肠道免疫的动态平衡中具有重要作用。当两者之间的平衡被打破时,可诱发功能性胃肠病（如肠易激综合征）及免疫相关性疾病（如炎症性肠病）。本文主要阐述肠黏膜屏障与肠道菌群之间的相互关系以及与肠道屏障功能障碍相关的肠道疾病。     

Therapy of intestinal protozoa

Protozoa that parasitize the human intestine and cause disease include Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum, Cyclospora cayetanensis, Isospora belli, and the microsporidia (which are now classified as fungi). The new and broad-spectrum agent nitazoxanide now has an Food and Drug Administration indication for the treatment of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis in children, making C. parvum for the first time a treatable infection. Metronidazole is the standard, and in most cases effective, therapy for invasive infection due to E. histolytica and for G. lamblia infection. Cyclosporiasis and isosporiasis are treated with trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole, whereas some isolates of Encephalitozoon intestinalis are sensitive to albendazole. Eradication of E. histolytica infection after completion of metronidazole therapy normally requires additional therapy with paromomycin, whereas cases of giardiasis refractory to metronidazole have been treated with nitazoxanide, higher doses of metronidazole, or with combination therapy with quinacrine and metronidazole.     

Dynamics of intestinal propulsion

A biomechanical model and mathematical formulation of the problem of propulsion of a solid non-deformable pellet by an isolated segment of the gut are presented. The organ is modeled as a soft orthotropic cylindrical biological shell. Its wall is reinforced by transversely isotropic muscle fibers of orthogonal type of weaving embedded in a connective tissue stroma. The mechanical properties of the wall are assumed to be nonlinear, deformations are finite. The longitudinal smooth muscle syncitium possesses anisotropic and the circular muscle syncytium has anisotropic electrical properties. Their electromechanical activity is under control of a pacemaker, which is represented by interstitial cells of Cajal. The model describes the dynamics of the generation and propagation of mechanical waves of contraction-relaxation along the surface of the bioshell and propulsion of the pellet. The governing system of equations was solved numerically. The combined finite-difference and finite-element method was used. The results demonstrate that pendular movements alone provide an aboral transit, without mixing though, of the bolus. Non-propagating segmental contractions show small amplitude librations of the pellet without its visible propulsion. Only the coordinated activity of both smooth muscle layers in a form of the peristaltic reflex provides physiologically significant simultaneous propulsion and mixing of the intraluminal content (pellet).