title: Effect of sodium stibogluconate on the status of interleukin-I production in normal & Leishmania donovani infected BALB/c mice.
abstract: Sodium stibogluconate, did not bring about significant increase in the production of IL-1, when both specific leishmanial antigen, or non specific Staphylococcus epidermidis was used as stimulus in normal uninfected animals. However, Staph. epidermidis was found to be a better stimulus as it brought about a significant increase (P less than 0.001) in IL-1 production when compared with leishmania antigen. In BALB/c mice infected with L. donovani there was a significant reduction (P less than 0.001) in IL-1 levels on various post infection days irrespective whether Staph. epidermidis or leishmanial antigen was used as stimulus when compared with controls. IL-1 levels were significantly increased (P less than 0.05) when L. donovani infected animals were treated with SSG, after 14 days post infection, irrespective of the stimuli used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sodhi
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Ganguly
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Malla
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Mahajan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000967:Antimony Sodium Gluconate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D013212:Staphylococcus epidermidis / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1; D000967:Antimony Sodium Gluconate