Inflammatory Immune Response
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Journal of Inflammation
- Vol. 2 (1), 21-31
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1721727x0400200104
Abstract
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are the most commonly used microorganisms in probiotic products and it is known that these LAB enhanced the immune response and increase resistance to neoplasia and infections. In previous studies using an experimental model of BALB/c mice it was demonstrated that a cyclical diet of yoghurt given to animals previously injected with the carcinogen 1,2 dimethylhydrazine (DMH) inhibited the development of colorectal carcinoma. The animals showed an inflammatory response prior to the development of the tumour, which was diminished with the yoghurt feeding. We examined the immunoregulatory and antiinflammatory mechanisms involved in the inhibition of tumour growth by yoghurt and compared with the mechanisms of a non-steroidal antiinflammatory drug (Indomethacin). Five experimental groups (BALB/c mice) were used in this study: 1) DMH group, injected with 1,2 dimethylhydrazine weekly for 10 weeks. 2) DMH-yoghurt group, yoghurt was supplemented 10 days followed by inoculation with DMH. After tumour induction yoghurt was given every 10 days for six months. 3) Only yoghurt given during six months following the same schedule (yoghurt control. 4) DMH-indomethacin group. After tumour induction, animals were treated with indomethacin, injected cyclically. 5) Non-treatment control group fed with a conventional balanced diet. We studied IgA secreting cells and CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the large intestine of mice fed long term with yoghurt and others treated with indomethacin. TNFα, INFγ cytokines, Bcl2 protein and iNOS enzyme production was also measured We observed an increase in the number of IgA-secreting cells but not in the CD4+ and CD8+ cells in the mice fed long term with yoghurt. Indomethacin treated mice showed high values of all these cellular populations. Mice injected with indomethacin did not show increased levels of the proinflammatory cytokine TNFα and INFγ. These cytokines were increased in DMH and DMH plus yoghurt groups. iNOS enzyme determinations were increased in DMH and DMH plus indomethacin group. These results coincided with the inflammatory response observed in the histological findings. Bcl-2 protein was increased in mice fed long term with yoghurt. We suggest that the immune mechanisms by which yoghurt operates would be different to those induced with the antiinflammatory drug indomethacin. Yoghurt activated the production of cytokines that could exert a regulation of the immune response by apoptosis induced by TNFα. We conclude that yoghurt down modulate the immune response and exert its antitumour activity by its antiinflammatory activity, a mechanism that is different with that of the antiinflammatory indomethacin.Keywords
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