Interleukin-12 modulates the protective immune response in SCID mice infected with Histoplasma capsulatum.

Abstract:

:Infection with Histoplasma capsulatum results in a subclinical infection in immunocompetent hosts due to an effective cellular immune response. By contrast, immunodeficient individuals can have a severe disseminated and potentially fatal disease. In a previous study, it was demonstrated that normal mice infected intravenously with H. capsulatum and treated with interleukin-12 (IL-12) at the time of infection were protected from a fatal outcome. In this study, we examined the immunomodulatory effects of IL-12 on disseminated histoplasmosis in immunodeficient SCID mice. SCID mice infected with H. capsulatum and treated with IL-12 showed an increase in survival and a reduction in the colony counts of H. capsulatum in internal organs at 14 days after infection. The protective effect of IL-12 was abrogated if animals were also treated with a neutralizing antibody to gamma interferon (IFN-gamma). IL-12 treatment also resulted in an increase in mRNA expression and protein production for IFN-gamma, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and nitric oxide from spleen cells. When IL-12 was combined with amphotericin B (AmB) treatment, there was a significant increase in survival compared with either modality alone. Moreover, combined treatment resulted in an increase in both IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha production, as well as in a substantial reduction in H. capsulatum burden at 35 and 90 days postinfection. This study demonstrates that IL-12 modulates the protective immune response to histoplasmosis in SCID mice and also suggests that IL-12 in combination with AmB may be useful as a treatment for H. capsulatum in immunodeficient hosts.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Zhou P,Sieve MC,Tewari RP,Seder RA

doi

10.1128/IAI.65.3.936-942.1997

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-03-01 00:00:00

pages

936-42

issue

3

eissn

0019-9567

issn

1098-5522

journal_volume

65

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