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Rhiannon T Filippone, Lauren Sahakian, Vasso Apostolopoulos, Kulmira Nurgali, Eosinophils in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2019, Pages 1140–1151, https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izz024
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ABSTRACT
Clinical investigations in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients have provided increasing evidence that eosinophils contribute to chronic intestinal inflammation. Accumulation of eosinophils in the gastrointestinal tract correlates with the variations of eosinophil regulatory molecules; however, their role in gastrointestinal dysfunction in IBD has not been fully elucidated. This review will describe the development and characterization of gastrointestinal eosinophils, mechanisms of eosinophil recruitment to the gastrointestinal tract. Moreover, the eosinophil-induced changes to the enteric nervous system associated with disease severity and gastrointestinal dysfunction will be analyzed with suggestive molecular pathways for enteric neuronal injury. Current and potential therapeutic interventions targeting eosinophils will be discussed.