Immunohistochemical Detection of Toll-Like Receptor-2, -4 and -9 in Exocrine Glands Associated with Rat Alimentary Tract

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  • MANTANI Youhei
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • YOKOO Yuh
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • KAMEZAKI Aosa
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • UDAYANGA Kankanam Gamage Sanath
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • TAKAHARA Ei-ichirou
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • TAKEUCHI Takashi
    Department of Veterinary Laboratory Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, 4–101 Koyama-cho Minami, Tottori, Tottori 680–8553, Japan
  • KAWANO Junichi
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • YOKOYAMA Toshifumi
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • HOSHI Nobuhiko
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan
  • KITAGAWA Hiroshi
    Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1–1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657–8501, Japan

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Abstract

Localization of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in the exocrine glands associated with the rat alimentary tract was immunohistochemically studied using anti-TLR antibodies. TLR-2, -4 and -9 were detected in the secretory granules of acinar cells or the luminal substances of the gustatory gland, extraorbital lacrimal gland, Harderian gland, proper gastric gland and pancreas. TLR-2 and -9 were also detected in the mucous acinar cells of the sublingual gland. Positivity for all TLRs was found in the striated borders of columnar epithelial cells and the luminal substances of the intestinal crypts throughout the small intestine, and also in the goblet cells throughout the large intestine. Only TLR-4 was detected in the secretory granules of Paneth cells. A reduction of TLR-4-positive secretory granules and the formation of TLR-4-positive vacuoles were found in the ileal Paneth cells under the hyper-proliferation of indigenous bacteria. In the apical to middle intervillous portions of the ileum, Gram-positive bacterial colonies were significantly more abundant than Gram-negative bacterial colonies, whereas this difference disappeared in the basal intervillous portions. These findings suggest that there are distribution differences in the secretory sources of soluble TLRs that possibly neutralize their luminal ligands, in the rat alimentary tract. Therefore, the bacterial ligand-recognition system composed of the membranous TLRs of villous columnar epithelial cells and soluble TLRs from crypt epithelial cells might contribute to host defense mechanisms for the selective elimination of Gram-positive bacteria rather than Gram-negative bacteria in the rat small intestine.

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