Mouse genetic model for clinical and immunological heterogeneity of leishmaniasis.
Systematic assessment of the role of host genes in clinico-pathological and immunological manifestations of Leishmania major-induced disease in mice was performed using 20 recombinant congenic (RC) strains. As the RC strains are homozygous and each carries a different, random set of 12.5% genes from the resistant strain, STS/A, and 87.5% genes from the susceptible strain, BALB/cHeA, they allowed us to study the pathological and immunological characteristics of infected hosts in 20 fixed different random combinations of BALB/c and STS genes. The 20 RC strains differ widely in expression of different symptoms of disease and in immunological characteristics. Disease or healing in different strains occurred in association with different components of immune response -- with the exception of a frequently occurring correlation between the disease and IgE levels. Moreover, some parameters of the immune response were highly correlated in some strains but not at all in others. This shows that several patterns of the immune response may be associated with the same clinical outcome, depending on the host genotype. Our data also suggest that despite the complexity of regulation, when a sufficient number of controlling loci is known, the prediction of a phenotype is possible. Combining functional and clinical information with multilocus genotyping may improve our ability to predict the progression of the disease and to optimize the treatment.
Lipoldová
Marie
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Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Fleming nám. 2, 16637 Prague, Czech Republic. lipoldova@img.cas.cz
Svobodová
Milena
M
Havelková
Helena
H
Krulová
Magdaléna
M
Badalová
Jana
J
Nohýnková
Eva
E
Hart
Augustinus A M
AA
Schlegel
David
D
Volf
Petr
P
Demant
Peter
P
D000818:Animals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000097:blood; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D014644:Genetic Variation; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000097:blood; D007700:Kinetics; D018320:Leishmania major; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D020297:Mice, Congenic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology*; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008957:Models, Genetic; D013045:Species Specificity
D016207:Cytokines; D007073:Immunoglobulin E