title: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) production in mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi: effect of its paradoxical increase by anti-IL-6 monoclonal antibody treatment on infection and acute-phase and humoral immune responses.
abstract: Trypanosoma cruzi infection of mice triggered endogenous production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) during the ascending phase of parasitemia. Injections of anti-IL-6 monoclonal antibody in infected mice at the time of the serum IL-6 peak paradoxically increased IL-6 levels to 60- to 80-fold those in infected mice receiving unrelated immunoglobulins. This early and transient increase in circulating IL-6 levels modified neither the immunoglobulin nor T. cruzi-specific antibody levels of immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1), IgG2a, IgG3, IgM, IgA, and IgE isotypes or the final outcome of infection nor the blood or tissular parasite levels. However, it tended to delay mortality of mice and to increase the levels of the acute-phase protein serum amyloid P component.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Truyens
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Angelo-Barrios
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Torrico
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Damme
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heremans
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Carlier
mesh_terms: D000210:Acute-Phase Reaction / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000494:pharmacology; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology; D007132:Immunoglobulin Isotypes / Q000097:blood; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D000683:Serum Amyloid P-Component / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000093242:Interleukin-6 Inhibitors
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan; D007132:Immunoglobulin Isotypes; D015850:Interleukin-6; D000683:Serum Amyloid P-Component; D000093242:Interleukin-6 Inhibitors