TRICHINELLA-SPIRALIS - MEDIATION OF THE INTESTINAL COMPONENT OF PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY IN THE RAT BY MULTIPLE, PHASE-SPECIFIC, ANTI-PARASITIC RESPONSES
TRICHINELLA-SPIRALIS - MEDIATION OF THE INTESTINAL COMPONENT OF PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY IN THE RAT BY MULTIPLE, PHASE-SPECIFIC, ANTI-PARASITIC RESPONSES
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-4894(79)90068-7
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
DESPOMMIER, DD
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作者:
BELL, RG;MCGREGOR, DD;DESPOMMIER, DD
Rats infected orally with T. spiralis developed an immunity that was induced by and expressed against separate phases of the parasite''s enteral life cycle. Infectious muscle larvae generated an immune response (rapid expulsion) that was directed against the very early intestinal infection and resulted in the expulsion of worms within 24 h. This response eliminated more than 95% of worms in an oral challenge inoculum. Developing larvae (pre-adults) induced an immune response that was expressed against adult worms. The effect on adults was dependent upon continuous exposure of worms to the immune environment throughout their enteral larval development. Immunity induced by pre-adult T. spiralis was not expressed against adult worms transferred from nonimmune rats. While adult worms were resistant to the immunity engendered by pre-adults they induced an efficient immunity that was autospecific. Pre-adult and adult immunities were expressed in depression of worm fecundity and in the expulsion of adults from the gut. The 2 reactions differed in respect to their kinetics and their efficiency against various worm burdens. Pre-adult immunity was directed mainly against fecundity whereas adult immunity favored worm expulsion. All responses (rapid expulsion, pre-adult and adult immunity and anti-fecundity) acted synergistically to produce sterile immunity against challenge infections of up to 5000 muscle larvae. The host protective response to T. spiralis may be a complex, multifactorial process that operates sequentially and synergistically to protect the host against reinfection.