Mycobacterial Infection Influences Bone Biomarker Levels In Patients With Crohn’S Disease

Keywords

Crohn’s disease; IBD; Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis; Osteocalcin; Osteoporosis; Undercarboxylated osteocalcin

Abstract

Patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) have higher risk for osteoporosis following decreased level of osteocalcin. We hypothesize that active inflammation following Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection results in elevation of undercarboxylated osteocalcin (ucOC) and downregulation of active osteocalcin in CD patients and cow-disease model (Johne’s disease). In this study, we measured ucOC, active osteocalcin, and calcium levels in sera from 42 cattle (21 infected with MAP and 21 healthy cattle), 18 CD patients, and 20 controls. The level of ucOC in MAP+ bovine samples was higher than that in MAP− controls (318 ± 57.2 nmol/mL vs. 289 ± 95.8 nmol/mL, P > 0.05). Consequently, mean calcium level in bovine MAP+ was significantly higher than that in bovine-MAP− samples (9.98 ± 0.998 mg/dL vs. 7.65 ± 2.12 mg/dL, P < 0.05). Also, the level of ucOC was higher in CD-MAP+ than in CD-MAP− (561 ± 23.7 nmol/mL vs. 285 ± 19.6 nmol/mL, P < 0.05). Interestingly, the mean osteocalcin level in MAP+ bovine was lower than that in MAP− bovine (797 ± 162 pg/mL vs. 1190 ± 43 pg/mL) and it was lower in CD-MAP+ than in CD-MAP− infection (1.89 ± 0.184 ng/mL vs. 2.19 ± 0.763 ng/mL) (P < 0.05). The correlation between MAP infection and elevation of sera ucOC, reduction of active osteocalcin and increased calcium supports MAP infection role in CD and complications with osteoporosis.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volume

96

Issue

7

Number of Pages

662-667

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1139/cjpp-2017-0700

Socpus ID

85049847677 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85049847677

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