Journal: Frontiers in Immunology
Article Title: Anti-High Mobility Group Box 1 Neutralizing-Antibody Ameliorates Dextran Sodium Sulfate Colitis in Mice
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.585094
Figure Lengend Snippet: HnAb treatment attenuates the severity of dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis mice. (A) The disease activity index (DAI) gradually increased from day 4 onward in the HnAb-treated and vehicle treated DSS-treated mice. (B) Histological examination displays colitis severity. Scale bar: 80 μm (upper panels), 40 μm (lower panels). (C) Histological grading of colitis on day 8. There was a significant difference of scores when DSS/IgY-treated mice vs. the control, DSS/IgY-treated mice vs. DSS/HnAb-treated mice, DSS/HnAb-treated mice vs. the control. (D) The expression of MPO was displayed by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Scale bar: 80 μm (upper panels), 40 μm (lower panels). (E) The expression levels of MPO in the colon were evaluated by IHC using a semi-quantitative scoring system (see Materials and Methods section). A significant difference between the scores of DSS/IgY-treated mice vs. the control, DSS/IgY-treated mice vs. DSS/HnAb-treated mice. No significant difference was found between DSS/HnAb-treated and control mice. (F) The messenger RNA (mRNA) expression levels of IL-1β, IFN-γ, and TNF-α in the colonic tissues of the three groups were detected by RT-PCR. The expression of these three cytokines was increased in the colonic tissues of colitis mice, and HnAb administration resulted in reduced expression level. (G) The expression of HMGB1 was assessed by IHC. Scale bar: 80 μm (upper panels), 40 μm (lower panels). (H) Semiquantiative score for HMGB1 expression by IHC. A significant difference was observed between HMGB1 expression in DSS/IgY-treated vs. control colonic tissue, DSS/IgY-treated vs. HnAb treated colonic tissue, and DSS/HnAb-treated vs. control colonic tissue. (I) HMBG1 mRNA expression levels were detected by RT-PCR. The expression of HMGB1 was increased in the colonic tissues of colitis mice, and HnAb administration resulted in reduced expression level. (J, K) HMGB1 levels in nuclear and cytoplasmic lysate detected by Western blotting and semiquantiative scoring as described in the Materials and Methods . HMGB1 level was reduced in nucleus and cytoplasm of DSS/HnAb-treated compared to DSS/IgY treated colon. Data in (B, D, G, J) were representative of 5 independent experiments. Data in (A, C, E, F, H, I, K) were presented as mean ± SEM of 5 independent experiments. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001, ns, not significant, by two-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-test (A) , by one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-test (C, E, F, H, I, K) .
Article Snippet: Simultaneously, half of them were treated with HnAb, a polyclonal chicken IgY against murine HMGB1 neutralizing-antibody, (200 μg/mouse, Shino-Test Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) and others were treated with anti-IgY, a control chicken IgY antibody (200 μg/mouse, Shino-Test Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), via intraperitoneal injection on the 0th, 3rd, and 6th days of DSS feeding.
Techniques: Activity Assay, Expressing, Immunohistochemistry, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Western Blot