Abstract:
:The induction of schistosomulicidal activity of peritoneal macrophages by concanavalin A-stimulated supernatants from long-term T-cell clones and by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was investigated in detail. Optimal conditions of in vitro macrophage activation by T-cell clone supernatants were established. Macrophages from 13-week S. mansoni-infected mice responded to lymphokine activation as well as resident macrophages from uninfected mice. IFN-gamma was shown to play an essential role in induction of schistosomulicidal macrophage activity: recombinant IFN-gamma at high concentration could induce schistosomula killing, and an anti-IFN-gamma antiserum inhibited the induction of schistosomulicidal activity by T-cell clone supernatants. Our data also indicate that macrophage activation could be obtained by IFN-gamma in synergy with other lymphokines in the supernatant of long-term T-cell clones. Macrophages from mice injected with T-cell clone supernatants were primed in vivo and triggered to kill schistosomula in vitro in the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The data demonstrate that lymphokines produced by T-cell clones and, in particular, IFN-gamma can participate in the activation of schistosomulicidal macrophages.
journal_name
Parasitologyjournal_title
Parasitologyauthors
Kubelka CF,Ruppel A,Krammer PH,Gemsa Ddoi
10.1017/s003118200006409xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1986-04-01 00:00:00pages
325-36eissn
0031-1820issn
1469-8161journal_volume
92 ( Pt 2)pub_type
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