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. 2022 Jul 1:13:871713.
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.871713. eCollection 2022.

The Role of Intestinal Mucosal Barrier in Autoimmune Disease: A Potential Target

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The Role of Intestinal Mucosal Barrier in Autoimmune Disease: A Potential Target (V体育ios版)

Jia An et al. Front Immunol. .

Abstract (V体育平台登录)

Autoimmune diseases are a series of diseases involving multiple tissues and organs, characterized by the over production of abnormal multiple antibodies. Although most studies support that the impaired immune balance participates in the development of autoimmune diseases, the specific pathogenesis of it is not fully understood. Intestinal immunity, especially the intestinal mucosal barrier has become a research hotspot, which is considered to be an upstream mechanism leading to the impaired immune balance VSports手机版. As an important defense barrier, the intestinal mucosal barrier regulates and maintains the homeostasis of internal environment. Once the intestinal barrier function is impaired under the effect of multiple factors, it will destroy the immune homeostasis, trigger inflammatory response, and participate in the development of autoimmune diseases in the final. However, the mechanism of the intestinal mucosal barrier how to regulate the homeostasis and inflammation is not clear. Some studies suggest that it maintains the balance of immune homeostasis through the zonulin pathway, intestinal microbiome, and Toll-like receptor signaling pathway. Our review focused on the composition and the function of the intestinal mucosal barrier to describe the research progress of it in regulating the immune homeostasis and inflammation, and also pointed that the intestinal mucosal barrier was the potential targets in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. .

Keywords: autoimmune diseases; intestinal microbiome; intestinal mucosal barrier; toll-like receptors signal pathway; zonulin pathway V体育安卓版. .

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The authors declared that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a the potential conflict of interest.

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The composition of the intestinal mucosal barrier. The intestinal mucosal barrier includes physical barriers, chemical barriers, immune barriers, and microbial barriers. Each barrier interacts with each other to perform barrier functions. DC: dendritic cell; AMPs: antimicrobial proteins; SIgA: secreted immunoglobulin A.
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Figure 2
(A) The regulation mechanism of the intestinal mucosal barrier. Under normal circumstances the intestinal mucosal barrier depends on the normal zonulin pathway, intestinal microbiome and Toll-like receptors signal pathway. TLRs can regulate the differentiation, proliferation and maturation of intestinal epithelial cells, zonulin reversibly regulates tight junctions via zonulin pathway and the intestinal microbiome regulates the normal microecological environment, which interacts with each other to guarantee the normal intestinal mucosal barrier function. (B) Under abnormal conditions, bacterial antigens and disordered intestinal microbiome make the TLR signaling pathway abnormal, and the latter destroys the intestinal epithelial cells. At the same time, it can also increase the production of zonulin to promote the zonulin pathway and lead to the destruction of tight junctions ultimately. Bacterial antigens and intestinal microbiome enter into the intestinal lamina propria through the intestinal epithelial cells to interact with immune cells leading to the production of inflammatory factors and abnormal antibodies, which enter the blood circulation and finally enter the body tissues to promote the development of diseases. EGFR: epidermal growth factor receptor; PAR2: protease-activated receptor 2.

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