Intestinal IFN-γ production is associated with protection from clinical signs, but not with elimination of worms, in Echinostoma caproni infected-mice

Cortes, Alba, Sotillo, Javier, Muñoz-Antoli, Carla, Fried, Bernard, Esteban, J-Guillermo, and Toledo, Rafael (2014) Intestinal IFN-γ production is associated with protection from clinical signs, but not with elimination of worms, in Echinostoma caproni infected-mice. Parasitology Research, 113 (6). pp. 2037-2045.

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Abstract

In the present paper, we assess the relationship between the expression of IFN-γ and the development of clinical signs in Echinostoma caproni-infected mice. For this purpose, we studied the course of the infection in three mouse strains: ICR (CD-1®) (a host of high compatibility with E. caproni), BALB/c (a prototypical Th2 strain), and BALB/c deficient for IFN-γ mice (IFN-γ−/−). Infection in ICR mice is characterized by the elevated expression of IFN-γ and iNOS in the intestine concomitantly with the lack of clinical signs. In contrast, the infection was more virulent in BALB/c and IFN-γ-deficient mice that developed a severe form of the disease together with the absence of IFN-γ expression. The disease was more severe in IFNγ−/− mice in which the disease was lethal during the few first weeks of the infection. The analysis of different parameters of the infection in each host strain showed that most of the features were similar in the three mouse strains, suggesting the IFN-γ plays a central role in that protection against severe disease. Thus, IFN-γ seems to play a dichotomous role in the infection facilitating the parasite establishment, but it may also benefit mice since it protects the mice from morbidity and mortality induced by the parasite.

Item ID: 32855
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1432-1955
Keywords: intestinal helminth, Echinostoma caproni, mouse strain, IFN-gamma, iNOS, clinical signs, disease
Funders: Conselleria d’Educació , Generalitat Valenciana, Universitat de Valencia
Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2014 04:49
FoR Codes: 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1108 Medical Microbiology > 110803 Medical Parasitology @ 30%
11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1107 Immunology > 110799 Immunology not elsewhere classified @ 30%
06 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 0603 Evolutionary Biology > 060307 Host-Parasite Interactions @ 40%
SEO Codes: 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences @ 30%
92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920109 Infectious Diseases @ 40%
92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920108 Immune System and Allergy @ 30%
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