Effect of probiotics on the expression of Barrett's oesophagus biomarkers

Behrooz Mozaffari Namin, Nasser Ebrahimi Daryani, Abbas Mirshafiey, Mohammad Kazem Sharifi Yazdi, Mohammad Mehdi Soltan Dallal (Lead / Corresponding author)

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    Abstract

    Barrett’s oesophagus (BO) is a complicated condition at the gastroesophageal junction in which normal squamous epithelium is changed to columnar and leads to oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OA). In the past decades, the prevalence of Barrett’s disease and mortality rate of adenocarcinoma has significantly increased throughout the word. Data has shown that molecular pathogenesis of disease has not been clearly identified. However, a wide-range and successful administration of probiotics in cancer and gastrointestinal diseases has lead to the investigation into the possible inhibitory role of probiotics in oesophageal cancer. This study was conducted to evaluate the inhibitory effect of probiotics on the expression of biomarkers in an in vitro model. Two different Barrett’s oesophageal cell lines were selected to co-culture with B. longum and Lactobacillus acidophilus to measure expression of IL-18, TNFα, p53 (tumour suppressor gene), cyclooxygenase 2 and CDX1 (caudal type homeobox 1) genes. In addition, two different aspects of probiotic administration, therapeutic and prophylactic test were also examined. Results showed that micro-organisms could inhibit expression of biomarkers and therapeutic culture conditions were more effective than prophylactic tests. The results obtained suggest that it is possible to incorporate the administration of probiotics in BO and OA prevention.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)348-354
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Medical Microbiology
    Volume64
    Issue number4
    Early online date9 Feb 2015
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Apr 2015

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Microbiology (medical)
    • Microbiology

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