The stimulation of immunity and the induction of unresponsiveness to Trichuris muris in various strains of laboratory mice

Author(s):  
D. Wakelin
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
S. E. Gostischeva ◽  
N. V. Abzaeva ◽  
E. L. Rakitina ◽  
D. G. Ponomarenko ◽  
M. V. Kostuchenko ◽  
...  

Research objective–studying of a possibility of application antigen – stimulated cellular in vitro tests and technology of the cytometric analysis for control of immunogene activity of batches of vaccine plague live.Materials and methods.As biomodels used white laboratory mice, immunized commercial medicine of vaccine of the plague NIIEG line, live from a strain of Yersinia pestis EV, in doses – 8 х 102, 4 х 103, 2 х 104 and 1 х 105 of living microbic cells. Blood for a research was taken from intact mice and on 7, 14 and 21 days after immunization. The intensity of an antigenreaktivnost of lymphocytes was defined in cellular in vitro tests, analyzing a marker of early activation (CD45+CD3+CD25+) of lymphocytes with use of the monoclonal antibodies conjugated from fluorokhroma. As specific antigen used a complex of water-soluble antigens of a plague microbe.Results.As a result of a research it is shown that at the animals vaccinated by doses 4 х 103 – 1 х 105 living microbic cells, the highest level of an expression activation marker lymphocytes at anti-gene stimulation of in vitro is registered on 14 days after immunization, at the same time the quantity of CD25 – positive lymphocytes are on average 6.8 times higher, than in control group. High degree of direct link (coefficient of correlation of r = 1,000) quantities of the survived animals with increase in level of lymphocytes, expressiruyushchy markers of early activation – CD25 is established.Conclusions.The offered technique can be used as the additional test when studying degree of immunogenicity of new (kandidatny) vaccines against plague.


Parasitology ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Behnke ◽  
D. Wakelin

The results of experimental infections ofTrichuris murisin wild field mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and laboratory-bred wild house mice (Mus musculus) showed that the parasite elicited an immune response similar to that previously described in strains of laboratory mice. Experiments in laboratory mice showed that the parasite was able to become sexually mature only when small single infections or repeated low-level infections were given. A survey of a population of 43 wild house mice naturally infected withT. murisshowed that the pattern of small worm burdens in the majority of mice was consistent with a situation of repeated low-level infection, except in the case of six female mice which harboured larger mature worm burdens. It is suggested that in these mice pregnancy and/or lactation may have suppressed the immune response, allowing the accumulation of a worm burden in excess of the threshold for worm expulsion.


Parasitology ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. M. Fahmy

Data concerning the life cycle of the various species of the genus Trichuris are somewhat controversial. The present paper is devoted to the study of T. muris, a common parasite of the caecum of wild house-mice and rats. The possibility of transfer of T. muris in the laboratory mice would enable the author to solve various contradictory points.


Parasitology ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Wakelin

Mice infected with as few as ten eggs of the nematode Trichuris muris are highly resistant to a challenge infection given 5 weeks later. The rate of elimination of challenge larvae is similar in mice immunized by infection with ten or with 300 eggs. Stimulation of immunity to challenge by the low-level infections is dependent upon the persistence of the immunizing worm population and removal of the population at day 14 considerably reduces the level of immunity. Worms developing from a low-level immunizing infection are not eliminated by a ‘self-cure’ response, as is the case with larger infections, and become sexually mature. Adult worms from such an infection are, however, eliminated by the response to a superimposed challenge infection. Repeated infection of mice with small numbers of eggs stimulates an immune response and the worm population is eliminated before patency.


Author(s):  
E. A. Elfont ◽  
R. B. Tobin ◽  
D. G. Colton ◽  
M. A. Mehlman

Summary5,-5'-diphenyl-2-thiohydantoin (DPTH) is an effective inhibitor of thyroxine (T4) stimulation of α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase in rat liver mitochondria. Because this finding indicated a possible tool for future study of the mode of action of thyroxine, the ultrastructural and biochemical effects of DPTH and/or thyroxine on rat liver mere investigated.Rats were fed either standard or DPTH (0.06%) diet for 30 days before T4 (250 ug/kg/day) was injected. Injection of T4 occurred daily for 10 days prior to sacrifice. After removal of the liver and kidneys, part of the tissue was frozen at -50°C for later biocheailcal analyses, while the rest was prefixed in buffered 3.5X glutaraldehyde (390 mOs) and post-fixed in buffered 1Z OsO4 (376 mOs). Tissues were embedded in Araldlte 502 and the sections examined in a Zeiss EM 9S.Hepatocytes from hyperthyroid rats (Fig. 2) demonstrated enlarged and more numerous mitochondria than those of controls (Fig. 1). Glycogen was almost totally absent from the cytoplasm of the T4-treated rats.


Author(s):  
Ji-da Dai ◽  
M. Joseph Costello ◽  
Lawrence I. Gilbert

Insect molting and metamorphosis are elicited by a class of polyhydroxylated steroids, ecdysteroids, that originate in the prothoracic glands (PGs). Prothoracicotropic hormone stimulation of steroidogenesis by the PGs at the cellular level involves both calcium and cAMP. Cell-to-cell communication mediated by gap junctions may play a key role in regulating signal transduction by controlling the transmission of small molecules and ions between adjacent cells. This is the first report of gap junctions in the PGs, the evidence obtained by means of SEM, thin sections and freeze-fracture replicas.


2001 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. 1802-1810
Author(s):  
Danielle Naville ◽  
Estelle Bordet ◽  
Marie-Claude Berthelon ◽  
Philippe Durand ◽  
Martine Begeot

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