Avaliação dos efeitos imuno-hematopoieticos da geleia real em modelo experimental de listeriose murina

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

We evaluated in this work the effects of Royal Jelly (RJ) on growth and differentiation of bone marrow and spleen hematopoietics progenitors in Listeria monocytogenes (LM) infected mice. We also evaluated serum colonystimulating activity, alterations in spleen weight and animal resistance front to the infection. In such way, BALB/c mice were profilacticly treated with RJ by gavage for 7 consecutive days with doses at 125, 250, 500 and 750 mg/Kg. Three hours after the last treating day the animais were infected intraperitoneally with a sublethal dose of the bacteria (1x103 LM/animal). To evaluate animal resistance front to the infection we carried out a survival analysis with a lethal dose of the bacteria (1x105 LM/animal). Our results demonstrated significant decrease on the hematopoietic progenitor numbers in LM bearing mice and significant extramedullar hematopoiesis as consequence. In the other hand, myelossupression induced by listeriosis was reverted when bearing mice were treated profilacticly with ali doses of RJ, resulting in normal levels of CFU-GM. Another important aspect regards colony-stimulating factor production by hematopoietic cells. In this direction, we observed that the infected animais presented higher serum colony-stimulating activity. Previous administration of RJ at ali doses in infected mice significantly increased serum stimulatory activity as well as CFU-GM number when compared to non-treated bearing groups. We also observed spleen weight increase in the non-treated infected group at ali doses, which contrasted with normal values obtained in previously treated bearing mice. In addition, the administration of RJ at 125, 250, 500 and 750 mg/Kg increased animal resistance front to listeriosis to 37,5%, 37,5%, 25% and 12,5%, respectively. Our results have demonstrated that RJ has a stimulating effect on the modulation of the immuno-hematopoietic response in mice infected with LM. Moreover, the treatment with RJ increased survival rate in infected mice with lethal dose of the bacteria. We demonstrated that RJ presents extensive therapeutic dose range since the adminisitration of ali evaluated doses (125, 250, 500 and 750 mg/Kg) presented similar results

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medula ossea hematopoese celulas hematopoieticas primitivas baço

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