A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Systemic Manifestations of Mucosal Diseases: Trafficking of Gut Immune Cells to Joint, Liver, and Pancreas
Authors: Salmi M, Adams DH, Trivedi P, Hänninen A, Jalkanen S
Editors: Mestecky J, Strober W, Russel MW, Cheroutre H, Lambrecht BN, Kelsall BL
Publishing place: Massachusetts
Publication year: 2015
Book title : Mucosal Immunology
Volume: 1
First page : 1749
Last page: 1758
ISBN: 978-0-12-415847-4
eISBN: 978-0-12-415975-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-415847-4.00090-2
Infections and inflammations in the gut are often connected to extra-intestinal manifestations in distant organs such as liver, joint, pancreas, eye, and skin. Although several factors including genetic inheritance, gut microbiota, and epithelial permeability have a role in the etiopathogenesis of these extra-intestinal diseases, aberrant and harmful accumulation of leukocytes in the distant organs directly causes the inflammatory symptoms. In this chapter, we concentrate on the mechanisms regulating the traffic of gut-derived lymphocytes to liver, joint, and pancreas and present the most recent achievements in drug development aiming at controlling harmful leukocyte trafficking in clinical trials.