Acute colitis was induced by 3.5% dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) in drinking water for 5days and levels of cytokines and mRNA expression of TACE, TIMP-3 and SIRT-1 were measured in colon at different time intervals.
We evaluated the susceptibility of wild-type, TIMP-3-knockout (TIMP-3-KO), and transgenic (TIMP-3-Tg) mice to induction of colitis with 2, 4, 6-trinitrobenzene-sulfonic-acid (TNBS), and the course of colitis in recombinase-activating gene-1-null mice after transfer of wild-type or TIMP-3-KO T cells.