PMID: 6170700Dec 1, 1981Paper

Suppression of parasite antigen-specific lymphoid blastogenesis in African trypanosomiasis

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
Y CharoenvitS Tokuda

Abstract

Inbred C57BL/6J mice were infected with either Trypanosoma rhodesiense organisms of Walter Reed Army Trypanozoon antigenic type 3 or 5 (WRATat 3 or WRATat 5) or were immunized with soluble trypanosomal antigens. Spleen cells obtained from immunized hosts undergo blastogenesis, measured by thymidine incorporation, when exposed to trypanosomal antigens in vitro. Spleens obtained from mice infected with T. rhodesiense organisms do not respond or respond only minimally to trypanosomal antigens in vitro. Spleen cells of infected mice suppress the trypanosomal antigen-induced proliferative response of spleen cells from immunized mice in co-culture experiments. The suppressive activity was found in both the plastic adherent and plastic nonadherent spleen cell populations. The in vitro responses of normal spleen cells to LPS and Con A were also suppressed by spleen cells obtained from infected mice.

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