Effect of protective and non‐protective antibodies in the phagocytosis rate ofTrypanosoma cruziblood forms by mouse peritoneal macrophages
作者:
ELIANE LAGES‐SILVA,
LUIS E. RAMIREZ,
ANTONIANA U. KRETTLI,
Z. BRENER,
期刊:
Parasite Immunology
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 1
页码: 21-30
ISSN:0141-9838
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-3024.1987.tb00485.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: protective and non‐protective antibodies;Trypanosoma cruzi;peritoneal macrophages
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SummaryThe phagocytosis ofTrypanosoma cruziblood forms by mouse peritoneal macrophages is significantly enhanced by sera from chronic chagasic patients, rabbits and mice presenting ‘lytic antibodies’ (LA) which are associated with resistance and active infections as well as ‘conventional serology antibodies’ (CSA) which are immunoglobulins involved in the positivity of serological diagnostic tests. The phagocytosis rate, however, is not influenced by sera from mice immunized withT. cruziantigen or chagasic patients submitted to specific treatment, both displaying only CSA but not LA. The efficacy of LA in increasing phagocytosis is related to their ability to bind to epitopes of living trypomastigotes, a property lacking in CSA that bind only to fixed parasites. This phenomenon is apparently the reason for the low effectiveness of antigens used for vaccination in Chagas' disease which only induce CSA, immunoglobulins apparently unable to mediate a number of regular effector immune mechanisms such as complement‐mediated lysis, antibody‐dependent cell cytotoxicity and p
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