Cytokine and immunoglobulin subclass responses of rats to infection withEimeria nieschulzi
| Autor: | Johannes Eckert, Nicholas Smith, Peter Deplazes, K.S. Ovington |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Diarrhea
Necrosis medicine.medical_treatment Antibodies Protozoan Immunoglobulin E Feces Interferon-gamma Immune system Immunity Weight Loss medicine Animals biology Coccidiosis Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha medicine.disease Rats Immunoglobulin Isotypes Infectious Diseases Cytokine Immunology biology.protein Eimeria Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology Tumor necrosis factor alpha medicine.symptom Antibody |
| Zdroj: | Parasitology. 111:51-57 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8161 0031-1820 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0031182000064593 |
| Popis: | SUMMARYSIV rats infected with a high dose (50000 oocysts) ofEimeria nieschulzidisplayed clinical symptoms of coccidiosis such as diarrhoea (days 6 and 7 post-primary infection) and weight loss (days 6–8 post-primary infection) and were completely immune to challenge with a similar dose. The ability of rats to produce tumour necrosis factor (TNF)in vivowas enhanced during the period of oocyst excretion in the primary infection but significant production of TNF did not occur after challenge infection. Thus, TNF does not appear to be an important factor in resistance to infection withE. nieschulzibut may play some role in resistance to primary infection and in the pathology associated withE. nieschulziinfection. Parasite-specific serum IgM levels (measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) were also increased during primary infection but returned to background levels at the end of the patent period and were not affected by challenge infection. In contrast to TNF and IgM, serum concentrations ofE. nieschulzi-specific IgGl, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG2c and intestinal tissue levels of IgA did not begin to increase until after day 12 post-primary infection, reached peak levels between days 20 and 30 post-primary infection and were slightly increased by challenge infection. |
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