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THE INFLUENCE OF TREATMENT WITH 5ASA AND/OR ITS DERIVATIVES ON ANTIOXIDANTIVE ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY IN CHILDREN WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES

Hanna Krauss, Iwona Ignyś, Waldemar Malewski, Wojciech Cichy,
Marian Krawczyński

Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases
Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland

 

The aim of the study was evaluate:

1.       The exponents of antixidiantive mechanisms in the course of inflammatory bowel disease,

2.       If taking the nonhomogenous etiology of some diseases, into consideration there are any differences in their activity and

3.       If the application of treatment leading to clinical remission is connected with the changes of the examined mechanisms. The study was performed in a group of 35 children aged 8-17 with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which divided into three subgroups:

I.   With ulcerative colitis; II. Crohn' disease; III.  Nonspecific colitis.

The obtained results were compared with 15 children's control group. The diagnosis was made on the basis of care history, clinical evaluation of morphological picture in colonoscopy and/or rectoscopy connected with histological evaluation of colon mucosa. Endoscopic and laboratory examinations were performed in the time of the diagnosis (stage I), 3 (stage II) and 6 (stage III) month after starting the treatment. The following parameters were examined in every patient: the activity of sodium dismuthase (Misra-Fridovich' method), catalase (Beer's method), and glutathione peroxidase (Little's, O'Brien's method). It was proven that domination of prooxidantive processes and significant decrease of enzymatic proteins' activity may constitute a potential mechanism of tissue damage in gastrointestinal inflammatory conditions and at the same time suggests the possibility of applying new antioxidantive therapy.