https://www.scientificarchives.com/journal/journal-of-cellular-immunology Journal of Cellular Immunology Short Communication IL-10 Responsiveness and Anti-TNF Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Felicia M. Bloemendaal1,2, Charlotte P. Peters1, Anje A. te Velde1,2, Cyriel Y. Ponsioen1, Gijs R. van den Brink1,2,3, Manon E. Wildenberg1,2#, Pim J. Koelink2#* 1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, AG&M Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 3Current address: Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland #Contributed equally *Correspondence should be addressed to Pim J. Koelink;
[email protected] Received date: December 05, 2020, Accepted date: January 28, 2021 Copyright: © 2021 Bloemendaal FM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Keywords: IBD, IL-10, Anti-TNF, Macrophages, developing IBD [6]. Colitis While initially it was assumed that IL-10 suppressed inflammatory responses by directly affecting T-cells [7], Macrophages, IL-10 and Anti-TNF Therapy in further experimental studies pointed out a pivotal role for IBD IL-10 signaling within the myeloid compartment as the absence of IL-10 Rα in intestinal macrophages resulted Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a multifactorial in spontaneous colitis [8,9]. Therefore, IL-10 signaling disease in which both genetic and environmental factors within macrophages plays a central role in the regulation play an important role, although the precise cause remains of intestinal mucosal homeostasis.