title: Regulation of parasite-specific antibody responses in resistant (C57BL/6) and susceptible (C3H/HE) mice infected with Trypanosoma (trypanozoon) brucei brucei.
abstract: After infection with 10(3) T. brucei GUTat 3.1, C57BL/6 mice produced antibody responses and controlled the first parasitaemic wave whereas C3H/He mice did not. The inability of C3H/He mice to control parasitaemia resulted from an impaired ability of parasite-induced antibody-containing cells to secrete immunoglobulin. Antibody-containing cells in infected C3H/He mice regained the ability to secrete antibody within 24 h after trypanosome elimination by treatment with Berenil, suggesting that the block in antibody secretion was maintained by living parasites or short-lived components of degenerating parasites. Infected C3H/He mice also had an impaired ability to produce a rabbit erythrocyte-specific antibody response on challenge with rabbit erythrocytes and this response recovered when parasites were eliminated from the blood 24 h before analysis. It was not possible to inhibit secretion of antibody by rabbit erythrocyte-induced plasma cells either by incubating them with serum from infected C3H/He mice or by injecting large numbers of living trypanosomes into C3H/He mice already responding to rabbit erythrocytes. The process leading to failure of parasite and rabbit erythrocyte-induced antibody-containing cells to become high rate antibody-secreting cells was not identified but did not appear to correlate with any obvious change in the intra-cellular morphology of the antibody-containing cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000921:Antibody-Producing Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D004133:Diminazene / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D007136:Immunoglobulins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D013154:Spleen / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014344:Trypanocidal Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D014346:Trypanosoma brucei brucei / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology*; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D007136:Immunoglobulins; D014344:Trypanocidal Agents; C003915:diminazene aceturate; D004133:Diminazene