Immune suppression by cyclosporin A inhibits phytohemagglutinin-induced precocious gut maturation in suckling rats

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Olena Prykhod'koBjörn R Weström

Abstract

Enteral exposure to the lectin phytohemagglutinin (PHA) provokes precocious gut maturation in suckling rats coinciding with an early expansion of intestinal mucosal T and B lymphocytes. Here, the role of the immune system in neonatal gut growth and maturation was further studied. The effects of immunosuppression by cyclosporine A (CyA), 7.5 microg/g of body weight, injected 12 hours before and then daily after the intragastric gavage of PHA, 100 microg/g body weight, to 14-day-old suckling rats were studied after 4 and 12 hours and later after 72 hours. At 4 hours after PHA feeding, an early rapid increase in the intestinal levels of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-6, interleukin-1beta, and tumor necrosis factor was obtained, and the CyA treatment did not prevent the temporary PHA-induced intestinal disturbance seen at 12 hours. Later, at 72 hours after PHA gavage the CyA treatment significantly counteracted the PHA-induced gut changes with a decrease in small intestinal growth, a delay in the appearance of adult-phenotype enterocytes in the distal small intestinal, and total inhibition of the PHA-induced pancreas development. Additionally, the increase in plasma level of the acute phase protein, haptoglobin, after PH...Continue Reading

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