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Serum biomarkers confirming stable remission in inflammatory bowel disease

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Kessel, Christoph, Lavric, Miha, Weinhage, Toni, Brueckner, Markus, de Roock, Sytze, Däbritz, Jan, Weber, Jakob, Vastert, Sebastiaan J. +1 more·2021·Scientific Reports

Abstract

Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) have a chronic-remittent course. Optimal management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) relies on early intervention, treat-to-target strategies and a tight disease control. However, it is challenging to assess the risk of relapses in individual patients. We investigated blood-based biomarkers for the confirmation of disease remission in patients with IBD. We retrospectively analyzed samples of 40 IBD patients (30 UC, 10 CD) enrolled in a tight-control follow-up study. Half of the patients had a flare during follow up. Serum was analyzed for S100A12 as well as S100A8/A9 and for 50 further biomarkers in a bead-based multiplex assay. The concentrations of 9 cytokines/chemokines and S100A8/A9 significantly differed in IBD patients with unstable remission (before flares) when compared to IBD patients with stable remission. Although the number of patients was small, ROC curve analyses revealed a number of biomarkers (IL-1β, IL-1RA, IL-8, IL13, IL-15, IL-21, IL-25, IFN-β, CXCL9, CXCL10, CXCL11, Galectin-1, G-CSF and S100A8/A9) that were elevated in patients with later occurring relapses. While earlier studies on peripheral biomarkers in IBD are limited to only few analytes, our study using a broad screening approach identified serum biomarkers with the potential to indicate unstable disease control in IBD, which may help to steer individual therapies to maintain remission.

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  • S100A8/A9 is recognized as both a biomarker of colitis and a promoter of inflammation-associated tumorigenesis.

    “Importantly, S100A8/A9 has been recognized as both a biomarker of colitis and a promoter of inflammation-associated tumorigenesis [16–18].”

    From Inhibition of SPI1 by ADAP Regulates S100A8/A9 Signaling in Macrophages to Control the Development of Colitis (2026) · cites this paper as [17]

    The Results (page unavailable) identify S100A8/A9 as a marker distinguishing ulcerative colitis patients with future flares from those with stable remission, supporting its biomarker role in that setting. The paper does not address whether S100A8/A9 promotes inflammation-associated tumorigenesis. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Kessel, C., Lavric, M., Weinhage, T., Brueckner, M., de Roock, S., Däbritz, J., Weber, J., Vastert, S. J., & Foell, D.
Affiliations
  • University Hospital Münster (DE)
  • Universitätsmedizin Rostock (DE)
  • Bühlmann (Switzerland) (CH)
  • University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
Corresponding author
Foell, Dirk
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2021-03-23
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
6690-6690
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3136572860
Cited by
54
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6
FWCI
5.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • URN:NBN Resolver for Germany & Switzerland (German National Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster (cc-by)
Funders
  • EU FP7 (305266 ‘MIAMI’)
  • Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA ref. no. 1911)
  • Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Ophthalmology › Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
Keywords
inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, serum biomarkers, remission, recurrence prediction, S100A8/A9, S100A12, cytokines, chemokines, galectin-1, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, treat-to-target, multiplex bead assay
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Prognosis, ROC Curve, Severity of Illness Index, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Biomarkers, Cytokines, Inflammation Mediators, Computational Biology, Proteome, Proteomics

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