Transcriptional profiling of inflammatory cytokine genes in African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) infected with Theileria parva
| Autor: | Esther G. Kanduma, Edward Kariuki, Hirohisa Mekata, Shiro Murata, Ryoyo Ikebuchi, Francis Gakuya, Naftaly Githaka, Tomohiro Okagawa, Kazuhiko Ohashi, Saori Suzuki, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Tatsuya Shirai, Satoru Konnai, Mayumi Ishizuka |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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IL 1β
Buffaloes Theileria parva Immunology Interleukin-1beta Molecular Sequence Data Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Article Proinflammatory cytokine parasitic diseases TNFα East Coast fever Animals Natural reservoir Amino Acid Sequence Interleukin 6 Cape buffalo African buffalo General Veterinary biology Base Sequence Interleukin-6 Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Gene Expression Profiling T. parva biology.organism_classification Virology Theileriasis Real-time polymerase chain reaction IL 6 biology.protein Cytokines Tumor necrosis factor alpha geographic locations |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology |
| ISSN: | 1873-2534 0165-2427 |
| Popis: | Theileria parva (T. parva) causes East Coast fever (ECF), which is of huge economic importance to Eastern and Southern African countries. In a previous bovine model, inflammatory cytokines were closely associated with disease progression in animals experimentally infected with T. parva. The African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), the natural reservoir for T. parva, is completely resistant to ECF despite a persistently high parasitaemia following infection with T. parva. Characterizing basic immunological interactions in the host is critical to understanding the mechanism underlying disease resistance in the African Cape buffalo. In this study, the expression level of several cytokines was analyzed in T. parva-infected buffaloes. There were no significant differences in the expression profiles of inflammatory cytokines between the infected and uninfected animals despite a remarkably high parasitaemia in the former. However, the expression level of IL-10 was significantly upregulated in the infected animals. These results indicate a correlation between diminished inflammatory cytokines response and disease resistance in the buffalo. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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