ALVEOLAR HYDATID CYST (AHC) - INFLAMMATION-INDUCED REACTIVE GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) AMYLOIDOSIS IN AHC-INFECTED MICE AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GI AMYLOID
Wh. Li et al., ALVEOLAR HYDATID CYST (AHC) - INFLAMMATION-INDUCED REACTIVE GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) AMYLOIDOSIS IN AHC-INFECTED MICE AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GI AMYLOID, Experimental parasitology, 83(1), 1996, pp. 1-10
A high incidence of GI amyloidosis has been described in patients with
various forms of systemic amyloidosis but its evolution and progressi
on in different subregions of the GI tract are not well documented. Th
ese aspects including the chemical nature of GI amyloid were examined
in the AHC mouse model of inflammation-associated reactive amyloidosis
. C57BL/6 mice were infected intraperitoneally with 250 AHC. Paraffin
sections from the stomach and the small and large intestines of AHC mi
ce were stained at different rime intervals with Congo red or immunocy
tochemically with monospecific RAA. The submucosal blood vessels at 1
week postinfection were found to be the first target of amyloid deposi
tion. With time the amyloid deposits extended to the mucosa and the Pe
yer's patches and immunoreacted with RAA; ileum was the most severely
affected region. Amyloid was extracted from the GI tract and purified
by size exclusion chromatography using 5 M guanidine-formic acid, pH 3
. The purified amyloid was identified by Western blotting using RAA an
d by partial N-terminal microsequencing up to 10 cycles. The GI amyloi
d showed homology with murine SAA(2), although SAA(2) mRNA is not expr
essed in murine GI tract. These results show that (a) the GI amyloid i
s derived, similar to that of splenic/hepatic amyloid, from circulatin
g SAA(2) and (b) the GI tract submucosal blood vessels are the first t
arget of AA deposition. The data also suggest that AA-mediated damage
to the submucosal blood capillaries may lead to SAA leakage followed b
y cascading of AA deposition in other layers of the GI tract. (C) 1996
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