Trichinella spiralis: inhibition of sheep hemagglutinins in mice |
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Authors: | G Faubert C E Tanner |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Macdonald College 800, Province of Quebec, Canada |
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Abstract: | One hundred and twenty-four mice were injected intraperitoneally with sheep red blood cells. The mice had been previously either orally inoculated with T. spiralis (16 mice), or injected intraperitoneally during 7 consecutive days with normal saline (12 mice), normal mouse serum (6 mice), or infected mouse serum (6 mice), normal rabbit serum (6 mice), sera from lightly (36 mice) or heavily infected rabbits (36 mice), and rabbit anti-lymphocyte serum (6 mice). The homologous serum clearly demonstrated an immunosuppressive effect on the production of sheep hemagglutinins; however, it was impossible to conclude that heterologous serum has such an activity since the normal rabbit serum used as control demonstrated the same activity. The inhibition of hemagglutinin production has also been observed in mice infected with T. spiralis. The presence of a suppressive agent released by the parasite or antigenic competition is discussed as the possible mediator of immunological unresponsiveness. |
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Keywords: | Trichinella spiralis Hemagglutinin Immune suppression Antigenic competition Host-parasite relationship Rabbits Sheep Mice Transplantation Hemagglutination tests |
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