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J Parasitol Res ; 2013: 657016, 2013.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23844278

ABSTRACT

Amastigotes from L. (L.)amazonensis (La), L. (L.)venezuelensis (Lv), L. (V.)brasiliensis (Lb), and L. (L.)chagasi (Lch) were cultured in a free cells liquid culture medium. Patients (n = 87) from a cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) hyperendemic region receiving different treatments were followed up from January 1994 to August 2000. Time for remission of lesions were spontaneous remission (SR) 7 weeks; Glucantime (Glu) chemotherapy 9 weeks; immunotherapy with La, Lv, Lb, and Lch amastigotes Tosyl-Lysil Chloromethyl-ketone (TLCK) treated and Nonidet P-40(NP-40) extracted (VT) 7 weeks. Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response with leishmanine intradermic reaction (IDR) was higher in CL patients than healthy controls (P < 0.05) and increased in active secondary versus primary infection (P < 0.001) with diagnostic value 1.74 for active infection and 1.81 postclinical remission. Antibodies to amastigotes characterized by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) decreased in sera postclinical remission versus active infections (P < 0.001), with a diagnostic value from 1.50 to 1.84. Immunoblottings antigenic bands frequency as well as Integral Optical Density (IOD) Area Densitometry decreased with sera from SR, after Glu or VT treatments in CL volunteers. Intracellular parasitism is due to normal antibodies recognizing parasite antigens after inoculation by vector. VT vaccine induced mainly cellular immunity, for remission of lesions and protection from CL infection.

2.
Biol. Res ; 26(1/2): 219-24, 1993.
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-228606

ABSTRACT

Our main interest have focused on Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, working in the areas of: 1--The molecular biology of Trypanosomes and Leishmaniae, and 2--The immunology of Chagas disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis. In this article we summarize the work realized in the last 20 years in the Immunobiology Laboratory at the IVIC with special emphasis in the development of a vaccine against leishmaniasis that is being currently used in a field trial in human beings of the endemic area of Guatire, Miranda State, Venezuela


Subject(s)
Animals , Cricetinae , Humans , Mice , Chagas Disease/immunology , Leishmaniasis/immunology , Leishmania/immunology , Trypanosoma cruzi/immunology , Antigens, Protozoan/immunology , Chagas Disease/prevention & control , Culture Media , Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous/immunology , Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous/prevention & control , Leishmaniasis, Visceral/immunology , Leishmaniasis, Visceral/prevention & control , Leishmaniasis/prevention & control , Leishmania/growth & development , Protozoan Proteins/immunology , Trypanosoma cruzi/growth & development , Vaccination
3.
Gac. méd. Caracas ; 98(4): 237-54, oct.-dic.1990. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-97647

ABSTRACT

Se aislan y se caracterizan los antigenos de la superficie y los antigenos excretados al medio de cultivo por T.cruzi y T.rangeli, cultivados entre 26§ y 34§C en medios químicamente definidos, donde estos parásitos crecen sin suplemento proteico alguno. T.cruzi muestra 25-30 proteínas en su superficie, siendo las más concentradas las de 107,95,80,77,55,49,47 kDa de peso molecular, no encontrándose variación en el patrón electroforético en SDA-acrimilamida en las distintas cepas, como tampoco a las diversas temperaturas de cultivo. T.rangeli presenta 10-11 proteínas en su superficie, siendo las de mayor concentración a 26§C las correspondientes a 115,106,88,63,50 y 38 kDa, mientras que a 30§C, estas mismas bandas más las correspondientes a 76,57 y 53 kDa predominan sobre las demás. T.cruzi excreta 2 proteínas, una con un peso molecular de 83 kDa y otra cuyo peso molecular abarca un rango de 64 a 76 kDa. La separación de estas proteínas por isoelectroenfoque permite visualizar 12 bandas proteícas con puntos isoeléctricos entre 4,72 y 5,51 con un mayor número de bandas a 34§C que a 26§C, siendo el patrón igual en todas las cepas estudiadas en este trabajo. Al separar las bandas de proteínas onservadas en el isoelectroenfoque madiante cromatografía en DEAE-Sephadex, se observaron 10-15 especies proteícas en cada fracción de la columna, locual permite concluir que el T. cruzi excreta entre 100-150 proteínas de puntos isoeléctricos diferentes. Los sueros de pacientes chagásicos poseen un grupo de anticuerpos que reconocen a las proteínas de superficie de T. cruzi y otros grupos de anticuerpos que reconocen a las proteínas..


Subject(s)
Rats , Animals , Chagas Disease/diagnosis , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Trypanosoma cruzi/isolation & purification , Trypanosoma/immunology , Trypanosoma/pathogenicity , Trypanosomiasis/diagnosis
4.
Gac. méd. Caracas ; 98(4): 256-68, oct.-dic.1990. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-97648

ABSTRACT

Epimastogotes de Trypanosoma cruzi crecido en medios de cultivos que permiten su proliferación entre 26§ y 37§C cambian la estructura de sus proteínas de superficie cuando se eleva la temperatura del cultivo de 30§ a 34§C. Los animales inmunizados con proteínas de superficie de epimastigotes cultivados a 30§C o con sedimentos extraídos con Nonidet P40 y cultivados a 34§C, mostraron parasitemias altas después de la infección con trypomastigotes sanguicolas. En cambio, los animales inmunizados con proteínas de superficie de epimastigotes cultivados a 34§C o con sedimentos de parásitos extraídos con Nonidet P40 y cultivados a 30§C, mostraron parasitemias bajas después de la infección con T.cruzi. La inmunización de ratones con los sedimentos de los parásitos cultivados a 30§C, incubados con tosyl-L-lysina-clorometil-cetona y extraídos con Nonidet P40, produjo la parasitemia menor después de la infección con T.cruzi. así como también ausencia de inmunosupresión y el mayor tiempo de sobrevida, sin evidencias histopatológicas de nidos de amastigotes o infiltrados inflamatorios en el corazón de los animales infectados


Subject(s)
Animals , Chagas Disease/immunology , Immunosuppression Therapy
5.
Invest. clín ; 31(1): 17-27, 1990. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-89817

ABSTRACT

Antisera to epi- and trypomastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi were used to defect trypanosome antigens on the surface of lymphocytes from infected mice. Only the antitrypomastigote serum could recognize antigens expressed transiently on the splenocyte membranes from infected animals. The number or structural configuration of Concanavalin A receptors was similarly affected and a clear correlation was seen between these two types of membrane changes and the immunosuppression to mitogens and SRBC presented by the infected mice. Reinfected animals did not show evidences of trypanosome proliferation in blood or tissues nor trypamastigote antigens on splenocytes, but presented a less intense, transient immunosuppression as measured by responsiveness to mitogens and SRBC, suggesting that the primed immune system can eliminate the new parasite inoculum before the host is immunosuppressed and also that the liberation of strong immunosuppressor trypomastigote antigens induce the new state of suppression


Subject(s)
Cattle , Mice , Rabbits , Animals , Trypanosoma cruzi/immunology , Immunosuppression Therapy
6.
Acta cient. venez ; 38(3): 382-3, 1987. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-59435

ABSTRACT

Trypanosoma cruzi was grown in semi-synthetic medium. Increases in specific growth rate and cell yields were obtained by agitation when compared with stationary cultures. The possible causes for this improvents are briefly discussed


Subject(s)
In Vitro Techniques , Trypanosoma cruzi/immunology
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