POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE OF MACROPHAGE-DERIVED MEDIATORS IN ACUTE MALARIA
POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE OF MACROPHAGE-DERIVED MEDIATORS IN ACUTE MALARIA
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.32.3.1058-1066.1981
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
WOOD, PR
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作者:
CLARK, IA;VIRELIZIER, JL;WOOD, PR
Tumor necrosis factor, lymphocyte-activating factor and enhanced levels of type I interferon were found in serum samples taken 2 h after mice infected with Plasmodium vinckei ssp. petteri received a small i.v. injection of endotoxin. These 3 mediators are among those released when mice receive an endotoxin injection 2 wk after Mycobacterium bovis BCG or Corynebacterium parvum have been administered. There is indirect evidence that this wider range of mediators is also released in P. v. ssp. petteri-infected mice given parenteral endotoxin. A recent report that endotoxin is detectable in the plasma of malaria-infected mice and children implies that these mediators also may be released in the acute phase of the natural infection. These macrophage-derived mediators may be important in the glucocorticoid antagonism, bone marrow depression, fever, hypergammaglobulinemia, splenomegaly, elevation of serum amyloid A, consumptive coagulopathy and shock syndrome with associated organ damage which can accompany malaria. The intraerythrocytic parasite death seen at crisis in some malarias, as well as the subsequent development of specific protective immunity, also may depend on these mediators.