title: Circulating levels of cyclooxygenase metabolites in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections.
abstract: Trypanosoma cruzi induces inflammatory reactions in several tissues. The production of prostaglandin F2alpha, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1alpha and thromboxane B2, known to regulate the immune response and to participate in inflammatory reactions, was studied in mice experimentally infected with T. cruzi. The generation of nitric oxide (NO), which could be regulated by cyclooxygenase metabolites, was also evaluated. In the acute infection the extension of inflammatory infiltrates in skeletal muscle as well as the circulating levels of cyclooxygenase metabolites and NO were higher in resistant C3H mice than in susceptible BALB/c mice. In addition, the spontaneous release of NO by spleen cells increased earlier in the C3H mouse strain. In the chronic infections, the tissue inflammatory reaction was still prominent in both groups of mice, but a moderate increase of thromboxane B2 concentration and in NO released by spleen cells was observed only in C3H mice. This comparative study shows that these mediators could be mainly related to protective mechanisms in the acute phase, but seem not to be involved in its maintenance in the chronic T. cruzi infections.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Parasitología Dr M. Fatala Chabén, ANLIS Dr C.G. Malbrán, Av. Paseo Colón 568, 1063 Buenos Aires, Argentina. rlcardoni@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Rita L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Cardoni
authors.forename: María Inés
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Antúnez
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications / Q000378:metabolism; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015232:Dinoprostone / Q000097:blood*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D011464:Epoprostenol / Q000097:blood*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism; D011451:Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases / Q000378:metabolism*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D013928:Thromboxane A2 / Q000097:blood*; D013929:Thromboxane B2 / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide; D013929:Thromboxane B2; D013928:Thromboxane A2; D011464:Epoprostenol; D011451:Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases; D015232:Dinoprostone