title: Antileishmanial activities of macrophages from C3H/HeN and C3H/HeJ mice treated with Mycobacterium bovis strain BCG.
abstract: C3H/HeN and C3H/HeJ mice were infected ip with viable BCG, a macrophage-activating agent, and their peritoneal exudate macrophages exposed to Leishmania tropica amastigotes. Macrophages from BCG-infected C3H/HeN mice had both leishmanicidal activities described for lymphokine activation of C3H/HeN macrophages in vitro: increased resistance to L. tropica infection, followed by intracellular killing of the parasite. Macrophages from BCG-infected C3H/HeN mice were also activated to kill tumor cells in vitro. In contrast, macrophages from BCG-treated C3H/HeJ mice were not resistant to L. tropica infection, did not kill intracellular amastigotes over 72 hr in culture, and were not cytotoxic to tumor cells.
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D004261:DNA Replication; D007109:Immunity; D007891:Leishmania / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology*; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000276:immunology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000276:immunology*; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000276:immunology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000276:immunology; D013045:Species Specificity