Figure 5
From: The role of interleukin 17 in Crohn’s disease-associated intestinal fibrosis
Effect of interleukin (IL)-17A and IL-17E on the production of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3, MMP-12, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 by intestinal myofibroblasts. (A) MMP-3, (B) MMP-12, and (C) (TIMP-1 in culture supernatants of myofibroblasts isolated from uninflamed areas of strictured (Strict uninfl) and non-strictured (Non-strict uninfl) gut of six patients with fibrostenosing Crohn’s disease (CD) and from normal gut of six healthy control (HC) subjects, cultured for 24 hours with medium alone or recombinant human (rh) tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, or rhIL-17A, or rhIL-17E. Blots are representative of experiments performed in all patients with CD and HC subjects. Lower panels show densitometry of western blots. Values are mean ± SEM. *P<0.05 versus myofibroblasts from the same study group cultured with medium alone. §P<0.05 versus Non-strict uninfl CD and HC myofibroblasts cultured under the same conditions.