Peyer's patch

Peyer's patch
Cross section of ileum with a Peyer's patch circled.
Details
SystemLymphatic system
Identifiers
Latinnoduli lymphoidei aggregati
MeSHD010581
TA98A05.6.01.014
A05.7.02.009
TA22960, 2978
THH3.04.03.0.00020
FMA15054
Anatomical terminology

Peyer's patches (or aggregated lymphoid nodules) are organized lymphoid follicles, named after the 17th-century Swiss anatomist Johann Conrad Peyer.[1] They are an important part of gut associated lymphoid tissue usually found in humans in the lowest portion of the small intestine, mainly in the distal jejunum and the ileum, but also could be detected in the duodenum.[2]

History

Peyer's patches had been observed and described by several anatomists during the 17th century, but in 1677 Swiss anatomist Johann Conrad Peyer (1653 – 1712) described the patches so clearly that they were eventually named after him.[1][3] However, Peyer regarded them as glands which discharged, into the small intestine, some substance which facilitated digestion. It was not until 1850 that the Swiss physician Rudolph Oskar Ziegler (1828 – 1881) suggested, after careful microscopic examination, that Peyer's patches were actually lymph glands.[4]

Structure

Peyer's patches are observable as elongated thickenings of the intestinal epithelium measuring a few centimeters in length. About 100 are found in humans. Microscopically, Peyer's patches appear as oval or round lymphoid follicles (similar to lymph nodes) located in the mucosa layer of the ileum and extend into the submucosa layer. The number of Peyer's patches peaks at age 15–25 and then declines during adulthood.[2] In the distal ileum, they are numerous and they form a lymphoid ring. At least 46% of Peyer's patches are concentrated in the distal 25 cm of ileum in humans. It is important to note that there are large variations in size, shape, and distribution of Peyer's patches from one individual to another one.[5] In adults, B lymphocytes are seen to dominate the follicles' germinal centers. T lymphocytes are found in the zones between follicles. Among the mononuclear cells, CD4+/CD25+ (10%) cells and CD8+/CD25+ (5%) cells are more abundant in Peyer's patches than in the peripheral blood.[6]

Peyer's patches are characterized by the follicle-associated epithelium (FAE), which covers all lymphoid follicles.[7] FAE differs from typical small intestinal villus epithelium: it has fewer goblet cells[8] therefore mucus layer is thinner,[9] and it is also characterized by the presence of specialized M cells or microfold cells, which provide uptake and transport of antigens from lumen.[7] Moreover, basal lamina of follicle-associated epithelium is more porous compared to intestinal villus.[10] Finally, follicle-associated epithelium is less permeable for ions and macromolecules, basically due to higher expression of tight junction proteins.[11]

Function

Because the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract is exposed to the external environment, much of it is populated with potentially pathogenic microorganisms. Peyer's patches thus establish their importance in the immune surveillance of the intestinal lumen and in facilitating production of the immune response within the mucosa.

Pathogenic microorganisms and other antigens entering the intestinal tract encounter macrophages, dendritic cells, B-lymphocytes, and T-lymphocytes found in Peyer's patches and other sites of gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT). Peyer's patches thus act for the gastrointestinal system much as the tonsils act for the respiratory system, trapping foreign particles, surveilling them, and destroying them.

Peyer's patches are covered by a special follicle-associated epithelium that contains specialized cells called microfold cells (M cells) which sample antigen directly from the lumen and deliver it to antigen-presenting cells (located in a unique pocket-like structure on their basolateral side). Dendritic cells and macrophages can also directly sample the lumen by extending dendrites through transcellular M cell-specific pores.[12][13] At the same time the paracellular pathway of follicle-associated epithelium is closed tightly to prevent penetration of antigens and continuous contact with immune cells.[14] T cells, B-cells and memory cells are stimulated upon encountering antigen in Peyer's patches. These cells then pass to the mesenteric lymph nodes where the immune response is amplified. Activated lymphocytes pass into the blood stream via the thoracic duct and travel to the gut where they carry out their final effector functions. The maturation of B-lymphocytes takes place in the Peyer's patch.

Clinical significance

Although important in the immune response, excessive growth of lymphoid tissue in Peyer's patches is pathologic, as hypertrophy of Peyer's patches has been closely associated with idiopathic intussusception.

Having too many or larger than normal Peyer's patches is associated with an increased risk of prion diseases.

Salmonella typhi and poliovirus also target this section of the intestine.[15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Peyer, Johann Conrad (1677). Exercitatio Anatomico-Medica de Glandulis Intestinorum, Earumque Usu et Affectionibus [Anatomical-medical essay on the intestinal glands, and their function and diseases] (in Latin). Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Onophrius à Waldkirch.
  2. 1 2 Zijlstra M, Auchincloss H, Loring JM, Chase CM, Russell PS, Jaenisch R (April 1992). "Skin graft rejection by beta 2-microglobulin-deficient mice". The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 175 (4): 885–93. doi:10.1136/gut.6.3.225. PMC 1552287. PMID 18668776.
  3. ↑ There were many earlier names for Peyer's patches:
  4. ↑ Ziegler, Rudolph Oskar (1850) Ueber die solitären und Peyerschen Follikel : Inaugural-Abhandlung, der medicinischen Facultät der Julius-Maximilians-Universität zu Würzburg vorgelegt [On solitary and Peyer's follicles: Inaugural treatise, submitted to the medical faculty of the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg] (in German) Würzburg, (Germany): Friederich Ernst Thein. From p. 37: "Ebensogross, wo nicht grösser ist die Aehnlichkeit der sogenannten Peyer'schen Drüsen und der Lymphdrüsen." (Just as great, if not greater, is the resemblance between the so-called Peyer's glands and the lymph glands.) From p. 38: " … ja, man könnte selbst versucht sein, die letzteren für nichts als eine Art von zwischen den Wänden der Darmsschleimhaut eingebetteten Lymphdrüsen zu halten." ( … indeed, one could even be tempted to regard the latter [i.e., the Peyer's patches] as nothing but some type of lymph glands [which are] embedded between the walls of the intestinal mucosa.)
  5. ↑ Van Kruiningen HJ, West AB, Freda BJ, Holmes KA (May 2002). "Distribution of Peyer's patches in the distal ileum". Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 8 (3): 180–5. doi:10.1097/00054725-200205000-00004. PMID 11979138. S2CID 22514793.
  6. ↑ Jung C, Hugot JP, Barreau F (September 2010). "Peyer's Patches: The Immune Sensors of the Intestine". International Journal of Inflammation. 2010: 823710. doi:10.4061/2010/823710. PMC 3004000. PMID 21188221.
  7. 1 2 Owen RL, Jones AL (February 1974). "Epithelial cell specialization within human Peyer's patches: an ultrastructural study of intestinal lymphoid follicles". Gastroenterology. 66 (2): 189–203. doi:10.1016/s0016-5085(74)80102-2. PMID 4810912.
  8. ↑ Onori P, Franchitto A, Sferra R, Vetuschi A, Gaudio E (May 2001). "Peyer's patches epithelium in the rat: a morphological, immunohistochemical, and morphometrical study". Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 46 (5): 1095–104. doi:10.1023/a:1010778532240. PMID 11341655. S2CID 34204173.
  9. ↑ Ermund A, Gustafsson JK, Hansson GC, Keita AV (2013). "Mucus properties and goblet cell quantification in mouse, rat and human ileal Peyer's patches". PLOS ONE. 8 (12): e83688. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...883688E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083688. PMC 3865249. PMID 24358305.
  10. ↑ Takeuchi T, Gonda T (June 2004). "Distribution of the pores of epithelial basement membrane in the rat small intestine". The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 66 (6): 695–700. doi:10.1292/jvms.66.695. PMID 15240945.
  11. ↑ Markov AG, Falchuk EL, Kruglova NM, Radloff J, Amasheh S (January 2016). "Claudin expression in follicle-associated epithelium of rat Peyer's patches defines a major restriction of the paracellular pathway". Acta Physiologica. 216 (1): 112–9. doi:10.1111/apha.12559. hdl:11701/6438. PMID 26228735. S2CID 13389571.
  12. ↑ Lelouard H, Fallet M, de Bovis B, Méresse S, Gorvel JP (March 2012). "Peyer's patch dendritic cells sample antigens by extending dendrites through M cell-specific transcellular pores". Gastroenterology. 142 (3): 592–601.e3. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2011.11.039. PMID 22155637.
  13. ↑ Bonnardel J, Da Silva C, Henri S, Tamoutounour S, Chasson L, Montañana-Sanchis F, Gorvel JP, Lelouard H (May 2015). "Innate and adaptive immune functions of peyer's patch monocyte-derived cells". Cell Reports. 11 (5): 770–84. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.067. PMID 25921539.
  14. ↑ Diener M (January 2016). "Roadblock for antigens--take a detour via M cells". Acta Physiologica. 216 (1): 13–4. doi:10.1111/apha.12595. PMID 26335934.
  15. ↑ Pascall, C R; Stearn, E J; Mosley, J G (1980-07-05), "Short Reports", British Medical Journal, vol. 281, no. 6232, p. 26, doi:10.1136/bmj.281.6232.26-a, PMC 1713722, PMID 7407483, Unlike S hadar peritonitis, S typhi peritonitis is due to perforation of Peyer's patches.
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