title: Cellular immune responses to the murine nematode parasite Trichuris muris. II. Differential induction of TH-cell subsets in resistant versus susceptible mice.
abstract: We have analysed the production of a wide variety of cytokines by in vitro concanavalin A (Con A) stimulated mesenteric lymph node cells (MLNC) from strains of mice experiencing chronic (B10.BR, AKR) versus acute (BALB/K) infection with the nematode parasite Trichuris muris. MLNC from infected BALB/K mice produced elevated levels of the Th2-specific cytokines interleukin-5 (IL-5) and IL-9. IL-3 and IL-4 remained at or just above normal. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) (a Th1-type cytokine) was secreted only in small amounts. MLNC from infected susceptible B10.BR and AKR mice produced large amounts of IFN-gamma in the relative absence of IL-4 and IL-9. IL-5 levels failed to rise significantly above normal in B10.BR mice whilst in AKR mice high levels of IL-5 were detected early post-infection (p.i.) but levels decreased dramatically as the infection proceeded to reach normal levels by Day 34. IL-3 levels were depressed below normal. Our results are consistent with the polarization of the Th-cell response during T. muris infection to give predominantly IFN-gamma-secreting Th1 cells in strains of mice unable to expel the parasite and mainly IL-4, IL-5 and IL-9 producing Th2-type cells in resistant strains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Manchester, U.K.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Else
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hültner
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Grencis
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D007111:Immunity, Cellular / Q000276:immunology; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000276:immunology; D008222:Lymphokines / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008806:Mice, Inbred AKR; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology*; D014257:Trichuriasis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D008222:Lymphokines