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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 146, 635-642, Copyright © 1995 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Up-regulation of T helper 2 and down-regulation of T helper 1 cytokines during murine retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency syndrome enhances susceptibility of a resistant mouse strain to Leishmania amazonensis

M Barral-Netto, JS da Silva, A Barral and S Reed
School of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Resistance to and recovery from leishmania infection is dependent on cell-mediated immunity. C57BL/6 mice are resistant to Leishmania amazonensis (La) infection but susceptible to LP-BM5 murine leukemia virus (MuLV) infection. MuLV infection leads to a state of immunodeficiency characterized by severe compromise of cell-mediated immunity. When infected with La alone, C57BL/6 mice developed a small transient lesion that evolved to spontaneous healing or a lesion with extremely slow growth. Lesions were predominantly comprised of a lympho- macrophagic infiltrate with few parasitized macrophages. When infected with La and, 4 weeks later, with MuLV (La-MuLV), the mice developed a large uncontrolled nonhealing lesion containing vacuolated and heavily parasitized macrophages. In contrast, mice infected with MuLV first and La 4 weeks later (MuLV-La) developed a small but persistent lesion, characterized histologically by a small number of heavily parasitized macrophages and few lymphocytes. Eight weeks after MuLV infection, both had similar immunological profiles with decreased lymphocyte proliferation, diminished production of interferon-gamma, and high production of interleukins 4 and 10. At the time of L. amazonensis infection, La-MuLV animals have a normal T cell function whereas in MuLV-La mice this function is already impaired; this may influence the recruitment of macrophages to the site of leishmania injection.

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