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Recurrent aphthous ulcers—a Toll-like receptor–mediated disease?
Jarkko Hietanen * , Ritva Häyrinen-Immonen , Ahmed Al-Samadi , Nina Trokovic , Katja Koskenpato , Yrjö T. Konttinen
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Background:  Recurrent aphthous ulcer (RAU) is characterized by acute and painful inflammatory ulcerations, which heal spontaneously but tend to recur. Many pathogens have been proposed as causative agents, but none has been consistently proven. According to our hypothesis, RAU is an autoinflammatory disorder triggered by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) shared by different pathogenic and commensal microbes.

Methods:  PAMP-reactive Toll-like receptors (TLRs) were mapped in oral epithelium in healthy controls compared to RAU.

Results:  In controls, the superficial epithelium formed a TLR, a PAMP non-reactive physical barrier zone, but all TLRs were found deeper in the epithelium, usually restricted to suprabasal and basal cell layers. In RAU, the epithelial TLR polarity was lost: TLRs 1, 2, 5, 7, and 8 were found throughout the epithelium, but also TLRs 4, 6, and 10 extended higher up than normally, whereas TLR-3 was almost lost in RAU. In RAU lesions, connective tissue stroma was heavily infiltrated by TLR+ inflammatory cells.

Conclusions:  Normal TLR architecture prevents inflammatory responses against normal microbes but still contains a deep TLR+, PAMP-reactive dormant defense zone. In RAU, the TLR+, PAMP-reactive zone extends to surface or subsurface exposed to microbial PAMPs. TLR reactivity is further enhanced by recruitment of inflammatory leukocytes forming a new deep line of defense. The organization of the TLR system in healthy mucosa and its changes in RAU are compatible with active pathogenic involvement of TLRs, which together with the typical clinical picture and course suggest that RAU is a TLR-mediated disease.


Source: Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine

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Keywords: innate immunity, oral epithelial cells, pathogen-associated molecular pattern, recurrent aphthous ulcer, Toll-like receptor
     
Type of Study: Research | Subject: Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Received: 2012/02/22 | Published: 2012/01/15
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Hietanen J, Häyrinen-Immonen R, Al-Samadi A, Trokovic N, Koskenpato K, T. Konttinen Y. Recurrent aphthous ulcers—a Toll-like receptor–mediated disease?. 3 2012; 4 (4)
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