title: Histoplanimetrical study on the relationship between invasion of indigenous bacteria into intestinal crypts and proliferation of epithelial cells in rat ascending colon.
abstract: The relationship between the invasion of indigenous bacteria into intestinal crypts and the proliferation of epithelial cells was histoplanimetrically investigated in the rat ascending colon. Indigenous bacteria preferentially adhered to the intestinal superficial epithelial cells in the mesenterium-attached mucosa (MAM) compared to those in the mesenterium-non-attached mucosa (MNM). Intestinal crypts with indigenous bacteria were also significantly more frequently found in MAM than in MNM. Total epithelial cells, columnar epithelial cells and goblet cells were significantly more abundant in the intestinal crypts with no-indigenous bacteria in MAM (MAM-C) than those in MNM (MNM-C), whereas the columnar epithelial cells were less abundant in MAM-C than in the intestinal crypts with indigenous bacteria in MAM (MAM-C-B). Columnar epithelial cells and goblet cells immuno-positive for proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in MAM-C were more abundant than those in MNM-C, but less abundant than those in MAM-C-B. Toll-like receptor (TLR)-2, -4 and -9 were immuno-positive in the striated borders of the intestinal superficial epithelial cells, but their positive intensities were weaker in MAM than in MNM. From these findings, indigenous bacteria were confirmed to preferentially settle on the intestinal superficial epithelium of MAM in the rat ascending colon, and low TLRs-expression might contribute to the preferential settlement of indigenous bacteria in MAM. The increase of proliferating epithelial cells is probably induced by the invasion of indigenous bacteria into the intestinal crypts of MAM.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Histophysiology, Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Youhei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mantani
authors.forename: Ei-Ichirou
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Takahara
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kawano
authors.forename: Toshifumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Nobuhiko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hoshi
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion / Q000502:physiology*; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D044682:Colon, Ascending / Q000382:microbiology*; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D051193:Toll-Like Receptors / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen; D051193:Toll-Like Receptors