Adhesion molecules of immunoglobin super family in children and youth with inflammatory bowel disease

Chronic inflammation is the common feature of inflammatory bowel disease. Adhesion molecules of immunoglobin super family play a key role in infiltration of leucocytes to place of inflammation.was to investigate the concentrations of slCAM-1, sVCAM-1 i sPECAM-1 in children and youth with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.The soluble adhesion molecules were studied in the serum of 31 patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and 27 with ulcerative colitis (uc) and 20 healthy controls in age 6-18. Groups of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients were divided according to Hyams and Truelove-Witts' indexes of disease activity. Serum levels of sICAM-1, sVCAM-1 and sPECAM-1 were measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit of Bender MedSystem.There were no statistical significant differences in the levels of sICAM-1, sVCAM-1 and sPECAM-1 between the Crohn's disease patients and the control group. sICAM-1 level of the patients with ulcerative colitis was statistical significant higher then those of controls (391.28 +/- 134.95 ng/ml vs. 319.91 +/- 77.86 ng/ml, p = 0.022). There were no statistical significant differences in the levels of sVCAM-1 and sPECAM-1 between the patients with ulcerative colitis and the control group. There were no statistical significant differences in the levels of sICAM-1, sVCAM-1 and sPECAM-1 between patients with the active Crohn's disease and with remission and between patients with active ulcerative colitis disease and with remission.Determine of sICAM-1, sVCAM-1 and sPECAM-1 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease could not be helpful in estimation of inflammation activity.