Role of bacterial products in periodontitis: humoral immune response to Eikenella corrodens.
AUTOR(ES)
Johnson, D A
RESUMO
Eikenella corrodens can induce periodontitis-like disease in gnotobiotic rats. Some components of this bacterial cell elicit measurable humoral immune response during the development of the disease, but in this system endotoxin is not among the efficient immunogens. Because no humoral immune response could be seen to the endotoxin of Eikenella corrodens it is assumed that this endotoxin can act uncontrolled in monoinfected rats. Accordingly, the lack of protective humoral immune response to pathogenic components of Eikenella corrodens may be the major factor permitting the development of the disease described here. The possibility that both cell-mediated immunity and uncontrolled endotoxic action are parts of the pathomechanism of the disease is supported by our observations.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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