Abstract
There is an accumulation of evidence to suggest that mast cells may play a key role in gastrointestinal inflammation. We have investigated the numbers and heterogeneity in staining properties of mast cells in biopsies of the duodenum of normal subjects (n = 10), and of normal duodenum from patients with Crohn's disease of the ileum and/or colon (n = 7) or with Helicobacter-associated gastritis of the antrum/corpus (n = 6). In normal donors, two subsets of mast cells, one located in the duodenal mucosa and the other in the submucosa, were clearly distinguished by their morphology and dye-binding properties. Whereas submucosal mast cells stained metachromatically with Toluidine Blue after neutral formalin fixation and emitted a yellow fluorescence after staining with Berberine sulphate, those in the mucosa were invisible using these stains. In patients with gastritis or Crohn's disease, there were marked changes in the numbers of mucosal mast cells compared with control subjects even though the duodenal biopsies were from apparently uninvolved tissue. Gastritis was associated with increased mucosal mast cell numbers (controls: 187 +/- 23 cells mm-2; gastritis: 413 +/- 139 cells mm-2; p = 0.0004), but mean mucosal mast cell counts...Continue Reading
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