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Plasmodium berghei: recombinant interferon-gamma and the development of parasitemia and cerebral lesions in malaria-infected mice.

Abstract：

:Mice infected with Plasmodium berghei K173-parasitized erythrocytes develop severe hypothermia followed by death as a consequence of murine cerebral malaria early in the second week after infection. A single intraperitoneal injection of 10(5) Units of IFN-gamma given between Day 4 and Day 6 postinfection results in a transient decrease of body temperature. No effect on parasitemia and cerebral malaria is obtained by this treatment. Daily injections of relatively low doses of IFN-gamma delays the patency of the infection for 2 days. Furthermore the proliferation rate of the parasites is reduced and the development of cerebral malaria is also delayed for 2 days. The reduction of body temperature, as found in untreated infected mice, is absent. Administration of IFN-gamma by means of a continuous delivery from intraperitoneally inserted osmotic pumps (1.2 x 10(4) Units of IFN-gamma/24 hr) also delays patency and inhibits parasitemia. Body temperature decreases during infection but mice are protected against the development of cerebral malaria. In nude mice, this treatment inhibits parasitemia to the same extent. However, reduction of body temperature was also prevented. High doses of IFN-gamma delivered by osmotic pumps (2.5 x 10(4) or 10(5) Units of IFN-gamma/24 hr) appear to be lethally toxic in conventional as well as in nude mice, independently of infection. Cerebral malaria-like symptoms are found in these mice. Treatment of infected C57BL/6J mice with antibody to IFN-gamma 4 days before and after infection as well as on the day of infection enhances parasitemia but does not affect the development of murine cerebral malaria. Single injections of anti-IFN-gamma-antibody 6 hr prior to infection or 7 days after infection have no effect. In CBA/Ca mice, treatment with anti-IFN-gamma-antibody enhances parasitemia; furthermore protection against cerebral malaria was obtained in part of the mice.

journal_name

Exp Parasitol

journal_title

Experimental parasitology

authors

Curfs JH,van der Meide PH,Billiau A,Meuwissen JH,Eling WM

doi

10.1006/expr.1993.1078

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-09-01 00:00:00

pages

212-23

issue

eissn

0014-4894

issn

1090-2449

pii

S0014489483710787

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pub_type

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Plasmodium berghei: recombinant interferon-gamma and the development of parasitemia and cerebral lesions in malaria-infected mice.