INTRODUCTION: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex, chronic, autoimmune disease of the gastrointestinal tract. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), a product of active leukocytes, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of IBD. The ability to reliably measure ROS in blood, urine, and stool samples could represent a new approach to assessing disease activity and response to therapy in pediatric patients with IBD.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship between redox measurements and clinical disease activity in pediatric patients with IBD.
METHODS: Biological specimens, including stool, urine, blood plasma, and intestinal aspirates, were collected from patients at Boston Children’s Hospital. Each sample’s oxidation-reduction potential was measured by two oxidation-reduction potential probes (an Arrowdox probe and a Mettler Toledo probe). Probes were directly immersed into the sample, returning a millivolt measurement of oxidation-reduction potential. Linear regression was performed to explore the relationship between patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and redox measurements of biological specimens. Patients were also stratified by disease severity, and ANOVA testing was performed to test for differences in oxidation-reduction potential observed in patients with remittent, mild, moderate, and severe disease activity.
RESULTS: Redox values in stool, urine, plasma, and intestinal aspirate did not significantly correlate with PROMs or differ significantly among groups categorized by disease severity.
CONCLUSIONS: Measurements of oxidation-reduction potential from stool, urine, plasma, and intestinal aspirate do not appear to be useful for assessing disease severity in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/47080 |
| Date | 07 October 2023 |
| Creators | Cataldo, Giulio F. |
| Contributors | Walsh, Carol T., Rufo, Paul A. |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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