PMID: 7539078Mar 1, 1995Paper

A lack of intestinal pacemaker (c-kit) in aganglionic bowel of patients with Hirschsprung's disease

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
A YamatakaT Miyano

Abstract

Recent experimental studies in mice have shown that the proto-oncogene c-kit plays a key role in the development of a component of the pacemaker system that is required for generation of autonomic gut motility. These studies further suggest that interaction of the c-kit receptor and its ligand (stem cell factor, SCF) is critical for the development of the enteric nervous system. The authors investigated the presence of c-kit-positive (c-kit+) cells as well as the expression of SCF in bowel from 12 patients with Hirschsprung's disease (HD), 4 patients with total colonic aganglionosis (TCA), 2 patients with extensive aganglionosis (EA) and 14 controls. Our methods involved the use of immunohistochemistry with antihuman c-kit sera and antihuman SCF sera. A few c-kit+ cells were found in the muscle layers of aganglionic bowels from HD, TCA and EA, in contrast to many c-kit+ cells in ganglionic bowel segments from control, HD, and TCA patients. Expression of SCF was identified in the muscle layers as well as in myenteric plexus of ganglionic bowel, in contrast to its absence in the muscle layers of aganglionic bowel specimens. A lack of c-kit and SCF might be of significance for autonomic gut dysmotility in aganglionic bowel segment...Continue Reading

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