title: Inhibitor of interleukin-1 alpha and interleukin-1 beta-induced T-cell activation in serum of patients with active Crohn's disease.
abstract: Interleukin-1 is a family of polypeptides with a wide spectrum of immunoinflammatory activities pertinent to Crohn's disease, including T-cell activation. Using specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, only sera from two of 19 patients (11%) with active Crohn's disease contained interleukin-1 alpha and interleukin-1 beta activity. Using the thymocyte proliferation assay, sera from the same patients contained significantly increased inhibitory activity against interleukin-1 alpha (P = 0.025) and interleukin-1 beta-induced cell activation (P = 0.00005) as compared with controls. Changes in both interleukin-1 alpha (P = 0.020) and interleukin-1 beta (P = 0.012) inhibitor concentrations correlated significantly with changes in clinical disease activity. None of the patient sera contained IgG or IgM autoantibodies to IL-1 alpha, nor did they exert significant inhibitory activity against interleukin 1 beta in the fibroblast prostaglandin E2-induction assay. Taken together, these data provide evidence for the presence of one or several regulators of interleukin-1-induced T-cell activation in sera from patients with active Crohn's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology C, Herlev University Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brynskov
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reimert
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bendtzen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000276:immunology; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D007375:Interleukin-1