Chronic alcohol consumption accelerates fibrosis in response to cerulein-induced pancreatitis in rats. 2005

Xiaoying Deng, and Lin Wang, and Mary S Elm, and David Gabazadeh, and Greg J Diorio, and Patricia K Eagon, and David C Whitcomb
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for chronic pancreatitis (CP), but the mechanism in humans remains obscure because prolonged alcohol consumption in most humans and animal models fails to produce alcoholic chronic pancreatitis (ACP). We hypothesize that the process leading to ACP is triggered by a sentinel acute pancreatitis (AP) event; this event causes recruitment of inflammatory cells, which initiates fibrosis driven by the anti-inflammatory response to recurrent AP and/or chronic oxidative stress. The aim was to determine whether chronic alcohol consumption accelerates fibrosis in response to cerulein-induced pancreatitis in the rat. Wistar male rats were pair-fed control (C) or 5% ethanol (E) Lieber-DeCarli liquid diets. Animals were studied without pancreatitis (P0), with cerulein pancreatitis induced once (P1), or with cerulein-induced pancreatitis weekly for 3 weeks (P3). AP markers, inflammation, and fibrosis were measured histologically, by gene expression profiling and protein expression. Macrophage infiltration was reduced in EP0 versus CP0 rats, but the pattern was reversed after AP. Microabscess, severe necrosis, and early calcification were only induced in the EP3 rats. Fibrosis was significantly induced in the EP3 rats versus EP1, CP1, and CP3 by histology, hydroxyproline content, and mRNA expression for collagen alpha1(1) and procollagen alpha2(1). Proinflammatory cytokine mRNAs were up-regulated shortly after induction of AP, while the anti-inflammatory cytokines (interleukin-10 and transforming growth factor-beta) were strongly up-regulated later and in parallel with fibrogenesis, especially in the EP3 rats. Pancreatic fibrosis develops after repeated episodes of AP and is potentiated by alcohol. Expression of fibrosis-associated genes was associated with expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines in alcohol-fed rats.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D010195 Pancreatitis INFLAMMATION of the PANCREAS. Pancreatitis is classified as acute unless there are computed tomographic or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatographic findings of CHRONIC PANCREATITIS (International Symposium on Acute Pancreatitis, Atlanta, 1992). The two most common forms of acute pancreatitis are ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS and gallstone pancreatitis. Acute Edematous Pancreatitis,Acute Pancreatitis,Pancreatic Parenchyma with Edema,Pancreatic Parenchymal Edema,Pancreatitis, Acute,Pancreatitis, Acute Edematous,Peripancreatic Fat Necrosis,Acute Edematous Pancreatitides,Acute Pancreatitides,Edema, Pancreatic Parenchymal,Edematous Pancreatitides, Acute,Edematous Pancreatitis, Acute,Fat Necrosis, Peripancreatic,Necrosis, Peripancreatic Fat,Pancreatic Parenchymal Edemas,Pancreatitides, Acute,Pancreatitides, Acute Edematous,Parenchymal Edema, Pancreatic,Peripancreatic Fat Necroses
D002108 Ceruletide A specific decapeptide obtained from the skin of Hila caerulea, an Australian amphibian. Caerulein is similar in action and composition to CHOLECYSTOKININ. It stimulates gastric, biliary, and pancreatic secretion; and certain smooth muscle. It is used in paralytic ileus and as diagnostic aid in pancreatic malfunction. Caerulein,Cerulein,Ceruletid,FI-6934,Takus,FI 6934,FI6934
D002908 Chronic Disease Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed). For epidemiological studies chronic disease often includes HEART DISEASES; STROKE; CANCER; and diabetes (DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2). Chronic Condition,Chronic Illness,Chronically Ill,Chronic Conditions,Chronic Diseases,Chronic Illnesses,Condition, Chronic,Disease, Chronic,Illness, Chronic
D004195 Disease Models, Animal Naturally-occurring or experimentally-induced animal diseases with pathological processes analogous to human diseases. Animal Disease Model,Animal Disease Models,Disease Model, Animal
D005355 Fibrosis Any pathological condition where fibrous connective tissue invades any organ, usually as a consequence of inflammation or other injury. Cirrhosis,Fibroses
D005786 Gene Expression Regulation Any of the processes by which nuclear, cytoplasmic, or intercellular factors influence the differential control (induction or repression) of gene action at the level of transcription or translation. Gene Action Regulation,Regulation of Gene Expression,Expression Regulation, Gene,Regulation, Gene Action,Regulation, Gene Expression
D000428 Alcohol Drinking Behaviors associated with the ingesting of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, including social drinking. Alcohol Consumption,Alcohol Intake,Drinking, Alcohol,Alcohol Drinking Habits,Alcohol Drinking Habit,Alcohol Intakes,Consumption, Alcohol,Drinking Habit, Alcohol,Habit, Alcohol Drinking,Habits, Alcohol Drinking,Intake, Alcohol
D000437 Alcoholism A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4) Alcohol Abuse,Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic,Ethanol Abuse,Alcohol Addiction,Alcohol Dependence,Alcohol Use Disorder,Abuse, Alcohol,Abuse, Ethanol,Addiction, Alcohol,Alcohol Use Disorders,Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication,Dependence, Alcohol,Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic,Use Disorders, Alcohol
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia

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