Correlação entre a Carga Parasitária na Fase Aguda e a Intensidade da Patologia, Parasitismo e Ativação do Sistema Imune na Fase Crônica da Doença de Chagas Experimental. / Influence of acute phase parasite load on pathology, parasitism and activation of the immune system at the late chronic phase of ChagasDisease.

AUTOR(ES)

Claudio Romero Farias Marinho

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

The objective of this project is to evaluate if the parasite load in the acute phase experimental Chagasdisease affects the parasitemias, the pathology and the immune response in the chronic phase. To obtain low- and high-parasite loads in the acute phase of the disease, AlJ mice were infected with 103 or 105 T. cruzi trypomastigotes of the Y strain, and treated on day 6 with Benzonidazol. One year later, chronic mice were screened for subpatent parasitemias, tissue pathology and immune response. Mice infected with the high parasite inoculum showed higher levels of chronic parasitemias, heart and striated muscle inflammation and activation of the immune system when compared to mice infected with the low¬dose inoculum. Concerning the activation of the immune system, the main findings in high-dose infected mice were: i) increased numbers of splenocytes, with preferential expansion of CD8+ and B220-CDS- cells, many of them bearing a macrophage phenotype; ii) higher frequencies of B (B220+), CD4+ and CD8+ large lymphocytes; iii) a shift of CD4+ cells towards a CD4SRBLow phenotype; iv) increased frequencies of both CD4SRBLow and CD4SRBHigh large CD4+ cells; v) augmented numbers of total Ig-secreting cells, with predominance of IgG2a¬producing cells, and; vi) increased production of IFN-y and IL-4. In addition, these mice presented lower IgM and higher IgG2a and IgG1 parasite-specific serum antibody levels. Our results indicate that the parasite load at the acute phase of T. cruzi infection influences the activation of the immune system and development of Chagas pathology at the late chronic phase of the disease.

ASSUNTO(S)

trypanosoma cruzi doença de chagas respone immune th2 th1 chagasdisease fase crônica immune system th1 patologia resposta imune th2 . trypanosoma cruzi

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