T dependent induction of an IgA and IgM anti-polysaccharide response.
T dependent induction of an IgA and IgM anti-polysaccharide response.
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IgA 和 IgM 抗多糖反应的 T 依赖性诱导。
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4684-5344-7_18
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
Murray,PD
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作者:
Kagnoff,MF;Murray,PD
The intestinal mucosa is the first site of interaction between the immune system and many foreign antigens and pathogens (1). Major interactions with polysaccharide antigens take place in the gut, and immune responses to bacterial polysaccharides are important in host defenses at mucosal surfaces. Morbidity and mortality from infections with encapsulated bacteria is high in neonates and the elderly. Information regarding how anti-polysaccharide immunity is regulated at mucosal surfaces and changes in that regulation during aging could be of substantial value for strategies to alter anti-polysaccharide immunity and for the design of immunization programs.The induction and regulation of antibody responses to polymeric polysaccharides like the dextrans or levans differs in several respects from that to proteins or polysaccharides coupled to proteins (2-8). For example, responses to bacterial polysaccharides are largely of the IgM and IgA class, and the IgG3 subclass in mice (2, 9-12). Such molecules have a limited number of antigenic determinants and elicit antibodies of restricted heterogeneity (13, 14). B cell precursors for polysaccharides can be detected a few days after birth (15). Nonetheless, compared to p~ oteins, antibody responses to polysaccharides may be delayed in ontogeny after in vivo immunization (2, 4, 15, 16). Delays in the age of onset of antipolysaccharide immunity are seen also in humans (17).