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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1999 Sep; 30(3): 556-61
Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-32911

RESUMO

Myocarditis is a complication of Schistosoma mansoni infection, although the literature does not provide much information regarding the frequency of myocarditis. In order to analyze the relationship between myocarditis and S. mansoni infection, different laboratory animals were infected with different dose of cercariae. At different weeks of post infection the hearts of infected animals were collected and processed for histopathological examination. Myocarditis was characterized by interstitial inflammatory cell infiltration with or without granuloma. ddY and ICR infected mice showed eosinophilic egg-granuloma in the heart where as neither eosinophil nor egg-granuloma were observed in the heart of infected gerbils. Higher number of eosinophils and greater size of the granuloma were found in the ddY mice than ICR mice. The number of eosinophils was significantly higher in severe myocarditis. Incidence of myocarditis was higher in ddY mice (69% with 100) than ICR mice (35%) and gerbils (23%). The results indicate that ddY mice were more susceptible to S. mansoni infection in the development of myocarditis and myocardial severity was associated with greater eosinophil infiltration. These findings suggest that eosinophils might be involved in the development of myocarditis, although the involvement of immunological reaction can not be ruled out.


Assuntos
Animais , Distribuição de Qui-Quadrado , Eosinofilia/patologia , Feminino , Gerbillinae , Incidência , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos ICR , Camundongos Endogâmicos , Miocardite/parasitologia , Esquistossomose mansoni/complicações
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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1998 Sep; 29(3): 563-6
Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-33562

RESUMO

Immunogenicity of Trichinella britovi (Japanese isolate, cord ISS 408) muscle larvae irradiated with 5 mJ/cm2 of short wavelength ultraviolet (UV) was studied using homologous challenge infections. SCID mice vaccinated with UV-attenuated larvae showed no resistance, although its congenic CB-17 mice exhibited remarkable immunity. Following challenge vaccinated Mongolian gerbils, Meriones unguiculatus, did not show significant immunity. Use of these animal models vaccinated with UV-attenuated larvae will contribute to the investigation of immune mechanisms against Trichinella infection and also to the development of a vaccine of trichinellosis.


Assuntos
Animais , Gerbillinae , Larva/imunologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Congênicos , Camundongos SCID , Especificidade da Espécie , Trichinella/imunologia , Triquinelose/imunologia , Vacinação
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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1997 Dec; 28(4): 838-43
Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-32098

RESUMO

Features of Schistosoma mansoni infection in SCID mice, which lack functional T- and B-lymphocytes, were investigated. The retarded development of parasites as well as reduction of liver egg recovery in SCID mice was significantly lower than those in congenic counterpart C.B-17 mice. Furthermore, the rate of parasite recovery from SCID mice with primary infection was always lower than that from C.B-17 mice by 20%, showing the innate resistance to S. mansoni infection. SCID mice vaccinated with UV-attenuated S. mansoni cercariae did not show protective immunity against a homologous challenge infection. The present innate resistance exhibited in SCID mice is discussed in relation to cell mediated immunity of macrophage activation by IFN-gamma which would not involve T-lymphocytes but is initiated by IL-12 and TNF-alpha cytokines. SCID mice may provide novel information on the host-parasite relationship in schistosome infections.


Assuntos
Animais , Feminino , Interações Hospedeiro-Parasita/imunologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos/parasitologia , Camundongos SCID/parasitologia , Schistosoma mansoni/imunologia , Esquistossomose mansoni/imunologia , Fatores de Tempo
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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1997 Sep; 28(3): 581-7
Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-31993

RESUMO

The prevalence and development of adult worms in the lungs of mice and gerbils infected with Schistosoma mansoni was investigated. All infected BALB/c mice harbored the schistosomes in their lungs at 10-12 weeks post-infection, showing the distinct relocation of adult worms to the lungs, from the hepatic portal system. The male and female flukes from lungs of BALB/c mice were significantly smaller than those from livers. The percentage of gravid females in lungs was considerably lower than that in the livers. The number of eggs recovered from lungs of BALB/c mice and gerbils having lung female worms, however, was higher than that from animals without lung females, indicating egg deposition of lung females. The number of eggs detected in the brains correlated well with the number of eggs from the lungs in BALB/c and ICR mice. Out of 119 infected gerbils at 8 weeks post-infection, only two animals had egg-emboli in the brain vessels, although many eggs embolized in the lungs of those animals. These data suggest that transfer of worms to the lungs from livers involves reduction of worm recovery from the portal circulation, and also pulmonary pathology of the disease.


Assuntos
Animais , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Gerbillinae/parasitologia , Pulmão/parasitologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C/parasitologia , Camundongos Endogâmicos ICR/parasitologia , Contagem de Ovos de Parasitas , Sistema Porta/parasitologia , Schistosoma mansoni/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Esquistossomose mansoni/parasitologia , Fatores de Tempo
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