Journal
CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 267, Issue 2, Pages 77-87Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2010.11.006
Keywords
Taenia crassiceps; Alternatively activated macrophages; T helper 2 cells; Foxp3 T regulatory cells; EAE; IL-10
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- CONACYT [60956-M]
- PAPIIT-UNAM [IN212909]
- PAPCA FES-I [23]
- Facultad de Medicina, UNAM
- CONACYT-Mexico [Becario199509]
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Helminth infections induce strong immunoregulation that can modulate subsequent pathogenic challenges. Taenia crassiceps causes a chronic infection that induces a Th2-biased response and modulates the host cellular immune response, including reduced lymphoproliferation in response to mitogens, impaired antigen presentation and the recruitment of suppressive alternatively activated macrophages (AAM Phi)). In this study, we aimed to evaluate the ability of T. crassiceps to reduce the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Only 50% of T. crassiceps-infected mice displayed EAE symptoms, which were significantly less severe than uninfected mice. This effect was associated with both decreased MOG-specific splenocyte proliferation and IL-17 production and limited leukocyte infiltration into the spinal cord. Infection with T. crassiceps induced an anti-inflammatory cytokine microenvironment, including decreased TNF-alpha production and high MOG-specific production of IL-4 and IL-10. While the mRNA expression of TNF-alpha and iNOS was lower in the brain of T. crassiceps-infected mice with EAE, markers for AAM Phi were highly expressed. Furthermore, in these mice, there was reduced entry of CD3(+)Foxp3(-) cells into the brain. The T. crassiceps-induced immune regulation decreased EAE severity by dampening T cell activation, proliferation and migration to the CNS. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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