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- EARLY ACTIVATION OF SPLENIC MACROPHAGES BY TUMOR-NECROSIS-FACTOR-ALPHA IS IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING THE OUTCOME OF EXPERIMENTAL HISTOPLASMOSIS IN MICE
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- UNIV SO CALIF
- 0019-9567
- Experimental infection of animals with Histoplasma capsulatum caused a massive macrophage infiltration into the spleen and induced the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) locally. The cytokine was also produced in vitro by peritoneal exudate macrophages exposed to a large inoculum of yeast cells. Depletion of the cytokine by injection of polyclonal sheep anti-TNF-alpha antibody was detrimental to sublethally infected mice. Fungous burdens in the spleens of TNF-alpha-depleted mice were higher than they were in the infected control mice at days 2, 7, and 9 after infection, and the antibody-treated animals succumbed to the infection. Histopathological study of spleen sections revealed that splenic macrophages were not able to control proliferation of intracellular yeasts as a result of TNF-alpha depletion. It seems that TNF-alpha plays a role in early activation of splenic macrophages which is important in controlling the outcome of an infection.
- 1-Oct-1992
- Infection and Immunity. Washington: Amer Soc Microbiology, v. 60, n. 10, p. 4230-4238, 1992.
- 4230-4238
- Amer Soc Microbiology
- http://iai.asm.org/content/60/10/4230
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