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OBJECTIVE The location and degree of activation of nuclear factor kappa (NFkappaB), a primary transcription factor that plays a regulating role in immune and inflammatory responses, was determined in Crohn's disease using full thickness specimens of bowel collected at surgery. METHODS Resected specimens of inflamed and non-inflamed bowel were collected from thirteen patients with Crohn's disease and non-inflamed bowel from eleven control subjects. Prepared frozen sections were immunostained using a monoclonal antibody to the activated form of the p65 subunit of NFkappaB and the number of positive staining cells counted using a Lennox graticule. RESULTS The number of cells positive for activated NFkappaB was significantly increased (p = 0.001 ) in all layers of inflamed Crohn's disease bowel, compared to non-inflamed bowel from controls. There was also a significant increase ( p = 0.009) in the number of positive cells, when compared to non-inflamed bowel from control subjects, in the submucosa of non-inflamed areas of Crohn's disease bowel. Cells positive for activated NFkappaB were provisionally identified by morphological criteria as mostly macrophages with some lymphocytes. There was no activation in endothelia. CONCLUSIONS NFkappaB is activated within large mononuclear cells in all layers of inflamed areas of the bowel in Crohn's disease and may represent key events in the inflammatory process. Increased activation in the submucosa of non-inflamed Crohn's disease bowel provides further evidence of early immunological activation in macroscopically and microscopically uninvolved areas and an underlying abnormal immune system in Crohn's disease.
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