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Mimotope-based antigens as potential vaccine candidates in experimental murine cysticercosis. Parasitology 2020; 147:1330-1337. [DOI: 10.1017/s0031182020001080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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AbstractHuman cysticercosis is a public health problem caused by Taenia solium metacestodes; thus, eradication of T. solium transmission by vaccination is an urgent requirement. The Cc48 mimotope from T. solium cysticerci was tested expressed in phage particles (mCc48) and chemically synthesized (sCc48) as a vaccine candidate in experimental murine cysticercosis. For this, BALB/c mice were immunized with mCc48 (G1; n = 40), sCc48 (G2; n = 40) and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (G3; n = 40, positive control) and challenged with Taenia crassiceps metacestodes. Another PBS group without parasite challenge was used as a negative control (G4; n = 40). Mice were sacrificed 15, 30, 45 and 60 days post-infection for cysticerci and serum collection. Immunization efficacy was determined by cysticerci counting. Serum samples were tested by ELISA to verify antibody (IgM, IgG, IgA and IgE) and cytokine (IFNγ and IL-4) levels. The sCc48 achieved the highest rates of protection and efficacy (90 and 98%, respectively). The group immunized with mCc48 presented the highest reactivity for IgM, IgG and IgE. All groups presented IL-4, but IFNγ was quite variable among groups. The protection induced by sCc48 synthetic peptide supports further studies of this mimotope as a potential vaccine candidate against cysticercosis.
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Díaz Á, Sagasti C, Casaravilla C. Granulomatous responses in larval taeniid infections. Parasite Immunol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/pim.12523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Á. Díaz
- Área/Cátedra de Inmunología; Departamento de Biociencias (Facultad de Química) e Instituto de Química Biológica (Facultad de Ciencias); Universidad de la República; Montevideo Uruguay
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- Área/Cátedra de Inmunología; Departamento de Biociencias (Facultad de Química) e Instituto de Química Biológica (Facultad de Ciencias); Universidad de la República; Montevideo Uruguay
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- Área/Cátedra de Inmunología; Departamento de Biociencias (Facultad de Química) e Instituto de Química Biológica (Facultad de Ciencias); Universidad de la República; Montevideo Uruguay
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IFN-gamma role in granuloma formation in experimental subcutaneous cysticercosis. Exp Parasitol 2016; 168:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2016.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2016] [Revised: 05/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Vendelova E, Lutz MB, Hrčková G. Immunity and immune modulation elicited by the larval cestode Mesocestoides vogae and its products. Parasite Immunol 2015. [PMID: 26218296 DOI: 10.1111/pim.12216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Larval cestodes (metacestodes) induce long-lasting infections leading to considerable pathology in humans and livestock. Their survival is typically associated with Th2-biased immune responses and immunosuppressive effects and depends on the parasite's ability to excrete/secrete antigens with immunoregulatory properties. Here, Mesocestoides vogae, a natural parasite of mice, is proposed as a new model species for the identification and characterization of cestode-derived immunomodulatory factors. We followed the kinetics of immune parameters after infection with M. vogae or exposure to their excretory/secretory (ES) products in a permissive strain of mice. Besides, a dominant IL-10 production and accumulation of macrophages and eosinophils expressing mRNA for Fizz-1, YM1 and Arg-1, mice showed minimal IFN-γ and transient IL-4 production at early time points with a complete loss at later stages of infection. We found that serum-free ES products without host contamination directly induced M2 macrophages and suppressed IFN-γ production in vivo and in vitro. This study highlights the use of the M. vogae as a cestode infection model and its ES products as a valuable tool for the identification of new therapeutic targets for the control of larval cestodiasis.
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- E Vendelova
- Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
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Meneses G, Berzunza M, Becker I, Bobes RJ, Rosas G, Sciutto E, Fragoso G. Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis: variations in its parasite growth permissiveness that encounter with local immune features in BALB/c substrains. Exp Parasitol 2009; 123:362-8. [PMID: 19735657 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2009] [Revised: 08/07/2009] [Accepted: 09/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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This study describes the first days of Taenia crassiceps infection in BALB/c substrains, BALB/cAnN and BALB/cJ, using two stocks of the same strains which were kept in different animal facilities, conventional and pathogen-free conditions, respectively. This study shows that parasite growth restriction shown by conventional BALB/cJ mice changed to parasite growth permissiveness when pathogen-free BALB/cJ mice were used. In addition, the higher number of macrophages, NK cells and intraperitoneal level of IFN-gamma found in the conventional restrictive BALB/cJ substrain vanished when the permissiveness to the parasite growth increased. No differences were found in DNA sequences of parasites collected before and after the change in the permissiveness to parasite growth which favors the possibility that the observed modifications could be due to changes in the murine strains and/or their maintenance conditions.
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- Gabriela Meneses
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70228, Mexico City C.P. 04510, Mexico
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Hillyer LM, Maliwichi HE, Woodward B. Blood serum interferon-gamma bioactivity is low in weanling mice subjected to acute deficits of energy or both protein and energy. Br J Nutr 2007; 97:528-34. [PMID: 17313715 DOI: 10.1017/s0007114507352409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The main objective of the present study was to determine the influence of acute deficits of protein and energy on the blood serum level of interferon-gamma, a signature type 1 polarising inflammatory cytokine. In two 14 d experiments, male and female C57BL/6J mice, initial age 19 d, consumed a complete purified diet ad libitum or in restricted daily quantities, or had free access to an isoenergetic purified low-protein diet. A zero-time control group (age 19 d) was included in the second experiment. Serum interferon-gamma was assessed in both experiments by sandwich ELISA and, in the second experiment, also by a bioassay based on inhibition of proliferation by WEHI-279 B lymphoma cells. The immunoassay detected interferon-gamma inconsistently in all groups (range 0-14 pg/ml; detection limits 1 x 5 and 0 x 7 pg/ml in experiments 1 and 2, respectively). By contrast, interferon-gamma bioactivity was found in all animals of each group (means 339, 499, 124 and 200 pg/ml in zero-time controls, age-matched controls, low-protein and restricted intake groups, respectively; detection limit, 12 pg/ml), and the mean serum bioactivity of each malnourished group was low compared with the age-matched control (P <or=0 x 05). The present study defines the physiological serum interferon-gamma bioactivity of the adolescent mouse. Moreover, to the extent achievable by way of the blood, the results reflect the influence of metabolically diverse forms of acute malnutrition on the polarising type 1 cytokine profile within lymphoid microenvironments wherein immune responses arise. Therefore, the results suggest a mechanism underlying the cell-mediated inflammatory incompetence that characterises acute, prepubescent malnutrition.
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- Lyn M Hillyer
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Machado ER, Ueta MT, Lourenço EV, Anibal FF, Sorgi CA, Soares EG, Roque-Barreira MC, Medeiros AI, Faccioli LH. Leukotrienes play a role in the control of parasite burden in murine strongyloidiasis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 175:3892-9. [PMID: 16148135 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.6.3892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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It is clear that leukotrienes mediate inflammatory response; new aspects of leukotriene function have recently been described. In this study, we demonstrate that leukotrienes are key chemical mediators in the control of parasite burdens in mice infected with Strongyloides venezuelensis. High leukotriene levels were detected in the lungs and small intestines of Swiss mice. In infected Swiss mice treated with MK886, a leukotriene synthesis inhibitor, numbers of adult worms, and eggs/g/feces were greater than in infected-only animals. The MK886 treatment inhibited leukotriene B(4) production in the lungs and small intestines, albeit on different postinfection days. Similarly, parasite burdens and eggs/g/feces were greater in 5-lipoxygenase(-/-) mice than in wild-type animals. These observation were confirmed by histopathological study of the duodena. We subsequently observed significant lower numbers of eosinophils and mononuclear cells in the blood, peritoneal cavity fluid, and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of Swiss mice treated with MK886. In the lung parenchyma of infected animals, MK886 significantly inhibited synthesis of IL-5 at the beginning of infection, whereas levels of IL-12 increased progressively throughout the postinfection period. However, levels of leukotriene C(4), PGE(2), TNF-alpha, IL-3, IL-4, IFN-gamma, and IL-10 were comparable between the treated and untreated groups. Nevertheless, IgE and IgG1 (but not IgG2a) synthesis was also significantly inhibited by MK886 administration. Therefore, in S. venezuelensis-infected mice, adult worm and egg burdens are leukotriene dependent. These findings indicate potential immunostimulatory strategies involving leukotriene administration, and may serve as an alert to physicians treating Strongyloides stercoralis-infected patients presenting asthma-like symptoms because use of 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors may worsen the infection.
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- Eleuza R Machado
- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Everhart ME, Kuhn RE, Zelmer DA. INFRAPOPULATION DYNAMICS OF A WILD STRAIN OF TAENIA CRASSICEPS (WFU) (CESTODA: TAENIIDAE) IN BALB/cJ MICE. J Parasitol 2004; 90:79-84. [PMID: 15040670 DOI: 10.1645/ge-3255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Taenia crassiceps cysticerci form large infrapopulations that persist in the tissues of their rodent hosts. Early infrapopulation growth appears inhibited and is followed by rapid increases that appear not to be controlled by the host immune response. This investigation was undertaken to examine the infrapopulation growth dynamics of a normally developing strain (WFU) of T. crassiceps during a 60-day primary intraperitoneal (i.p.) infection. Three, 6, 9, 14, 28, and 60 days after i.p. inoculation of 5 cysticerci, mice were killed, and the numbers of larvae, developmental stage, and buds per larva were recorded. Larval infrapopulation abundance increased exponentially beginning on day 6 postinoculation (PI), indicating an initial lag in reproduction. A stage-structured exponential growth model, assuming no mortality, fits the larval infrapopulation dynamics in terms of the numbers of larvae in reproductive and nonreproductive stages, indicating that cysticerci evade or suppress (or both) host immune mechanisms that are parasite restrictive after the first week of infection.
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- Mary E Everhart
- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
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Díaz MA, Villalobos N, de Aluja A, Rosas G, Goméz-Conde E, Hernández P, Larralde C, Sciutto E, Fragoso G. Th1 and Th2 indices of the immune response in pigs vaccinated against Taenia solium cysticercosis suggest various host immune strategies against the parasite. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2003; 93:81-90. [PMID: 12814694 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2427(03)00071-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Kinetics of the production of serum antibody levels and Th1 (IL-2, IFN-gamma) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-10) cytokines was studied in five pigs vaccinated with a synthetic tri-peptide vaccine (S3Pvac) against Taenia solium, a vaccine that has been shown protects pigs against naturally acquired infection. Healthy pigs of mixed genetic background, similar to those bred in rural villages of Mexico, were vaccinated with S3Pvac or with adjuvant alone, kept in sanitary conditions and bled at different times after vaccination to study the development of their specific immune response. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of vaccinated pigs showed a significant increment in the production of Th1 cytokines (IL-2 and IFN-gamma) but not of Th2 cytokines (IL-4 and IL-10) after specific PBLs stimulation with all the individual peptides. A Th1-inclined cytokine profile leading to an exacerbated local inflammation at the early installation stage of the cysticercus may possibly interfere with their successful establishment in the serum antibodies against total cysticercus antigens and against each of the three different peptides comprising S3Pvac were detected 7-51 days after vaccination. Antibodies against GK-1 interfered with the cysticerci development into intestinal tapeworms in prednisolone-treated hamsters. The sub-lethal crippling effect of anti-GK-1 antibodies upon cysticerci indicates to a therapeutic application of S3Pvac in infected pigs having potential epidemiological consequences, as it could aid in decreasing the number of tapeworms expected to develop from the few cysticerci that survive in the vaccinated pigs.
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- María Alicia Díaz
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Oriente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Puebla, Mexico
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Ignelzi MA, Wang W, Young AT. Fibroblast growth factors lead to increased Msx2 expression and fusion in calvarial sutures. J Bone Miner Res 2003; 18:751-9. [PMID: 12674336 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.2003.18.4.751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of the skull bones at the sutures, represents a disruption to the coordinated growth and development of the expanding brain and calvarial vault and is the second most common birth defect that affects the craniofacial complex. Mutations in the human homeobox-containing gene, Msx2, have been shown to cause Boston type craniosynostosis, and we have shown that overexpression of Msx2 leads to craniosynostosis in mice. Activating mutations in fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors are thought to cause craniosynostosis in Crouzon, Apert, Jackson-Weiss, Beare-Stevenson, and Muenke syndromes. To mimic activated signaling by mutated FGF receptors, we used heparin acrylic beads to deliver FGF ligands to mouse calvaria and demonstrated increased Msx2, Runx2, Bsp, and Osteocalcin gene expression, decreased cell proliferation, and suture obliteration and fusion. FGF2 elicited the greatest increase in Msx2 expression, and FGF1 was most likely to cause suture obliteration and fusion. Of the three sutures studied, the coronal suture exhibited the greatest increase in Msx2 expression and was the most likely to undergo obliteration and fusion. These results are intriguing because the coronal suture is the most commonly affected suture in syndromic craniosynostosis. These results suggest that Msx2 is a downstream target of FGF receptor signaling and that increased FGF signaling leads to osteogenic differentiation by sutural mesenchyme in mouse calvaria. These results are consistent with the hypotheses that increased Msx2 expression and activated signaling by mutated FGF receptors lead to craniosynostosis.
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- Michael A Ignelzi
- Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, The University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1078, USA.
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Spolski RJ, Alexander-Miller MA, Kuhn RE. Suppressed cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in experimental cysticercosis. Vet Parasitol 2002; 106:325-30. [PMID: 12079738 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4017(02)00105-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mitogen-induced T cell responses are suppressed in mice infected with larvae of Taenia crassiceps. The effects of experimental infection on specific T cell responses, however, have not been examined. In the present study, we demonstrate that larval-infected mice exhibit suppressed ability to develop anti-virus specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses while maintaining apparently normal natural killer (NK) cell responsiveness.
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- R J Spolski
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NHLBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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