INVIVO AND INVITRO ANALYSIS OF IMMUNITY TO TRICHINELLA-SPIRALIS IN MICE AND RATS
INVIVO AND INVITRO ANALYSIS OF IMMUNITY TO TRICHINELLA-SPIRALIS IN MICE AND RATS
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DOI:
10.1017/s0031182000047570
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
BLAIR, LS
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作者:
DESPOMMIER, DD;CAMPBELL, WC;BLAIR, LS
Wistar-Furth strain male rats and CFW strain male mice were immunized against T. spiralis using an antigenic fraction derived from a cell-free homogenate of mature muscle larvae. In rats, animals immunized with 250 .mu.g of antigen harbored significantly fewer (135,000) muscle larvae 30 days after oral challenge than controls (231,000). Further 7 day old adult worms derived from immunized rats shed 48% fewer (P < 0.001) newborn larvae over a 24 h period in vitro than adult worms from non-immunized animals. Mice were injected with either 10 or 100 .mu.g of antigen. In comparison with non-immunized controls, mice immunized with 100 .mu.g of antigen harbored significantly fewer adult worms at days 7 and 9 after oral challenge infection, while female worms recovered from immune mice on days 6-10 after challenge shed fewer newborn larvae in vitro. Mice immunized with 100 .mu.g of antigen harbored significantly fewer (10,391) muscle larvae at 30 days after challenge than did controls (47,750). Immunization of mice with 10 .mu.g of antigen did not induce a statistically significant reduction in adult worms at either day 7 or 9 after challenge (P < 0.5). Adult female worms from mice receiving 10 .mu.g of antigen still shed fewer larvae than did adults from control mice (P < 0.05). Mice immunized with 10 .mu.g of antigen harbored significantly fewer (13,700) recoverable muscle larvae than did controls at 30 days after challenge (39,000).