Mitogen- and antigen-specific proliferation of T cells in murine toxoplasmosis is inhibited by reactive nitrogen intermediates.
AUTOR(ES)
Candolfi, E
RESUMO
Acute and chronic infections with Toxoplasma gondii result in a nonspecific suppression of immunologic function in mice and humans. Proliferation of spleen cells in response to concanavalin A (ConA) and toxoplasma lysate antigen (TLA) was studied during the course of infection in mice susceptible (CBA/Ca) and resistant (BALB/c) to development of toxoplasmic encephalitis to determine if reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) are involved in the suppression of the proliferative responses. Maximal suppression of proliferation of spleen cells in response to ConA and TLA was observed on days 7 and 14 after infection and correlated with elevated levels of nitrite in spleen cell culture supernatants. By day 68 postinfection in BALB/c mice, proliferative responses returned to normal levels, whereas in CBA/Ca mice, they remained suppressed. The addition of an inhibitor of production of RNI (NG-monomethyl-L-arginine) increased proliferation of spleen cells in response to both ConA and TLA at days 7, 14, and 21 after infection. Depletion of adherent cells from spleen cell preparations obtained from acutely infected mice followed by their repletion with adherent spleen cells from uninfected mice resulted in increased proliferation of spleen cells from infected mice and a significant decrease in nitrite in the cultures. These results indicate that production of RNI by macrophages contributes significantly to the suppression of the spleen cell proliferation observed in the acute stage of toxoplasmosis.
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