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Two distinct lymphocyte homing systems involved in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases

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Under normal and pathological conditions, lymphocyte migration into the gastrointestinal mucosa to form gut-associated lymphoid tissue is mediated by the L-selectin ligand peripheral lymph node addressin and the integrin α4β7 ligand mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule 1 (MAdCAM-1) expressed on high endothelial venules (HEVs) and HEV-like vessels. In this review, we discuss these two distinct lymphocyte homing systems involved in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases with reference to our and others’ previously published works. We also describe a recently developed recombinant integrin α4β7 heterodimeric IgG chimera that can be used as an immunohistochemical reagent to stain functional MAdCAM-1.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the members of the Fukudas’ and Nakayama’s laboratories for their critical contribution to the studies and useful discussion. We also thank Dr. Elise Lamar for critical reading of the manuscript. The work reviewed from our laboratories has been supported by Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientist B-18790240, B-20790278, and B-22790343 (to M.K.), for Scientific Research on Priority Area 14082201 (to J.N) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B-18390113 and B-21390104 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (to J.N.), and Grants RO1 CA48737 and CA33000 and PO1 CA71932 from the National Institutes of Health (to M.F.).

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  1. Department of Molecular Pathology, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, 390-8621, Japan

    Motohiro Kobayashi, Hitomi Hoshino, Kenichi Suzawa, Yasuhiro Sakai & Jun Nakayama

  2. Department of Alzheimer’s Disease Research, National Institute for Longevity Science, Obu, 474-8511, Japan

    Hitomi Hoshino

  3. Tumor Microenvironment Program, Cancer Research Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA

    Minoru Fukuda

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Kobayashi, M., Hoshino, H., Suzawa, K. et al. Two distinct lymphocyte homing systems involved in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases. Semin Immunopathol 34, 401–413 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-012-0302-3

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