Avaliação de solução hidro alcoolica de propolis na resposta hematopoetica em camundongos infectados com Listeria monocytogenes / Evaluation of hydro alcoholic solution of propolis on the hematopoietic response in Listeria Monocytogenes

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2009

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Infection with Listeria monocytogenes has proven to be a useful model to investigate early effects of new compounds on the immune response to intracellular bacteria. In particular, the number of hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow and spleen is critically important to resistance to this infection. In this study, we demonstrated the protective effects of hydro alcoholic solution of propolis in mice infected with a lethal dose of Listeria monocytogenes, when administered prophylactically at 4mg/kg for 10 days, with survival rates up to 20%. This dose also prevented the myelosuppression and the splenomegaly caused by a sublethal infection with Listeria monocytogenes, due to the maintenance of granulocytemacrophage progenitors (CFU-GM) numbers in the bone marrow. Non-infected mice treated with hydro alcoholic solution of propolis presented similar numbers of CFU-GM in the bone marrow when compared to the controls. Furthermore, investigation of the production of colony-stimulating factors (CSF) revealed increased colony-stimulating activity (CSA) in the serum of infected mice pre-treated with hydro alcoholic solution of propolis 48 and 72 hours after the infection, suggesting that its effects on the production of growth factors mediate stimulation of myelopoiesis by hydro alcoholic solution of propolis. Moreover, we observed increased level of IFN-g in infected/treated mice. These results sustain our proposal of hydro alcoholic solution of propolis use as an adjuvant agent in the prophylaxis of opportunistic infections and reduction of side effects caused by immunosuppressive therapies

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interferon-gamma hematopoiesis propolis listeria monocytogenes propole listeria monocytogenes interferon-gama hematopoese

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