Abstract:
:We have used the MRL/lpr murine model of spontaneous lupus to investigate three questions in infection immunity: (1) does mycobacterial infection have any effect on the mortality of the autoimmunity-prone lpr mice?; (2) does the infection modify the progression of kidney disease of lpr lupus?; and (3) does the lpr gene change the resistance of mice to mycobacteria? Experimental infections were induced by intraperitoneal inoculation of 10(7) viable bacilli of Mycobacterium avium in 3 months old MRL/lpr mice and also in congeneic MRL/+ mice (lacking the lpr gene). MRL mice were sacrificed 1, 2.5 and 4 months after the M. avium injection. We found that infection caused lowering of urine protein concentration in lpr mice as compared with age-matched lpr controls. Mycobacteriosis also induced a marked decrease in the mortality of lpr animals, e.g. 85% of infected lpr mice reached the age of 7 months whereas only 10% of control lpr mice reached the same age. MRL/lpr mice showed, after 1 and 2.5 months of infection, higher mycobacterial loads than the congeneic non-lpr MRL mice; after 4 months of infection, however, differences in M. avium loads between the two groups of MRL mice became not statistically significant. We conclude that: (1) mycobacterial infection increases the life span of lpr mice; (2) the infection slows down the progression of kidney disease in the lupus-prone lpr animals; (3) the autoimmunity gene lpr is associated with a transient decrease in host resistance to mycobacteria.
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Autoimmunityjournal_title
Autoimmunityauthors
Castro AP,Esaguy N,Aguas APdoi
10.3109/08916939308993323subject
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1993-01-01 00:00:00pages
159-66issue
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0891-6934issn
1607-842Xjournal_volume
16pub_type
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