title: Comparative analysis of cell phenotypes in different severe clinical forms of Chagas' disease.
abstract: The understanding of the role of the immune response in the development of gastrointestinal and cardio-digestive (CD) forms of Chagas disease has received little attention. In this paper, the commitment of each leukocyte population of peripheral blood to the production of IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, IL-12, IL-4, IL-5 and IL-10 was studied in patients with the CD form of Chagas disease. The data show that cells from patients with the CD form of the disease have distinct cytokine profiles when compared with the other clinical forms of Chagas disease and suggest that eosinophils are the major source of cytokine production in this clinical entity. The data presented in this paper demonstrate that patients with CD form can be distinguished from patients with gastrointestinal or cardiac forms of the disease by the distinct cytokine profile of peripheral blood cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Imunologia Celular e Molecular, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou-FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Glenda M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Cardoso
authors.forename: M J F
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Morato
authors.forename: J A S
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.forename: M O C
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Bonfim
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Williams-Blangero
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: VandeBerg
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: E F L
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Magalhães
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Correa-Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000378:metabolism / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000378:metabolism; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000378:metabolism; D018664:Interleukin-12 / Q000378:metabolism; D015847:Interleukin-4 / Q000378:metabolism; D015848:Interleukin-5 / Q000378:metabolism; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000378:metabolism / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010641:Phenotype; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000378:metabolism; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D015848:Interleukin-5; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D016753:Interleukin-10; D018664:Interleukin-12; D015847:Interleukin-4; D007371:Interferon-gamma