Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: an Interplay of Tissue-Damaging and Macrophage-Activating Immune Responses—Dual Mechanisms That Control Bacillary Multiplication
Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: an Interplay of Tissue-Damaging and Macrophage-Activating Immune Responses—Dual Mechanisms That Control Bacillary Multiplication
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肺结核的发病机制:组织损伤和巨噬细胞激活免疫反应的相互作用——控制细菌增殖的双重机制
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发表时间:
1994
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通讯作者:
G. Rook
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作者:
A. Dannenberg;G. Rook
Once the first small caseous tuberculous lesion is established, all subsequent battles occur in a host capable of both tissue damaging and macrophage-activating immune responses. Both tissue-damaging and macrophage-activating immune responses can stop the growth (i.e., multiplication) of tubercle bacilli, because these bacilli do not multiply appreciably in nonliquefied caseous necrotic tissue. Various inflammatory mediators, e.g., clotting factors, eicosanoids, cytokines, hydrolytic enzymes, and reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates, are frequently involved in one or both processes. However, the principles described in this chapter are most easily understood if the reader accepts our simplified definitions, namely, that the tissue-damaging hypersensitivity process kills nonactivated macrophages that have allowed tubercle bacilli to multiply within them and that the cell-mediated immunity (CMI) process makes the microbicidal power of macrophages strong enough to kill or inhibit mycobacteria. The macrophage-activating immune response could not be responsible, because the susceptible host develops only weak cell-mediated immunity, and at this stage of the disease, the CMI of the resistant host is not yet fully developed. The majority of pulmonary tuberculous infections of human beings are arrested before they cause clinical disease. Activated macrophages can kill the tubercle bacilli they ingest. Under normal conditions, i.e., before infection begins, most of the alveolar macrophages are nonspecifically activated. Therapeutic agents to prevent liquefaction or to prevent its continuation are greatly needed to treat tuberculosis and limit the spread of this disease to other people.
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158.5
作者:
SELWYN, PA;HARTEL, D;FRIEDLAND, GH
通讯作者:
FRIEDLAND, GH