Blood and milk cellular immune responses of mastitic non-periparturient cows inoculated with Staphylococcus aureus
AUTOR(ES)
Rivas, A. L.
RESUMO
Lymphocyte function and phenotype of peripheral blood and mammary gland cells were evaluated in non-periparturient cows before and at 1, 4 to 8 and 9 to 14 d after inoculation with Staphylococcus aureus, as expressed by percentage of CD3+, CD2+, and CD45R+ cells, antigen density of these markers per lymphocyte, and mitogen-induced blastogenesis. Milk bacterial counts and somatic cell counts (SCC) were also assessed. Mitogen-induced blastogenic responses were strong in blood and weak in mammary gland cells in all observations and positively correlated with the percent of CD45R+ cells. Significantly greater percentages of milk CD3+ lymphocytes and increased CD3, CD2, and CD45R antigen density per cell were observed after challenge. The blood CD3 and CD2 antigen density per lymphocyte and the milk CD2+ lymphocyte percent were negatively correlated with SCC (P ≤ 0.01). No mastitis (SCC ≤ 500 000 cells/mL) was observed in cows showing blood lymphocyte CD2 and CD3 antigen density indices ≥ 2.5 and 6, respectively. Forty-one percent of SCC values were predicted by the combined blood CD2 and milk CD3 antigen density (P ≤ 0.01). These findings support the hypotheses that mitogen-induced lymphocyte blastogenesis is not a valid test to assess mammary gland immunocompetence and that CD2 expression may facilitate immune responses by decreasing the number of T cell receptors required to achieve full activation.
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