T cell function during fatal and self-limiting malarial infections of mice. |
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Authors: | R R Freeman |
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Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia |
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Abstract: | Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) was found to be depressed during fatal Plasmodium berghei and self-limiting P. yoelii infections of mice. By testing mice presensitized to SRBC before P. berghei infection, and by transfer of cells sensitized in uninfected mice into P. yoelii-infected recipients, the immunological lesion was found to be at the level of DTH expression, rather than at the level of T cell sensitization. That acute inflammatory responsiveness is impaired during malarial infection was confirmed by testing this response to local injection of LPS in P. yoelii-infected mice. The results suggested that depressed DTH responsiveness in malarious mice is not a valid indication of impaired T cell function. |
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