Pre–erythrocytic–stage immune effector mechanisms inPlasmodiumspp. infections
- 29 September 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 352 (1359), 1361-1367
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1997.0121
Abstract
The potent protective immunity against malaria induced by immunization of mice and humans with radiation–attenuatedPlasmodiumspp. sporozoites is thought to be mediated primarily by T–cell responses directed against infected hepatocytes. This has led to considerable efforts to develop subunit vaccines that duplicate this protective immunity, but a universally effective vaccine is still not available andin vitrocorrelates of protective immunity have not been established. Contributing to this delay has been a lack of understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the protection. There are now data indicating that CD8+ T cells, CD4+ T cells, cytokines, and nitric oxide can all mediate the elimination of infected hepatocytesin vitroandin vivo. By dissecting the protection induced by immunization with irradiated sporozoite, DNA and synthetic peptide–adjuvant vaccines, we have demonstrated that different T–cell–dependent immune responses mediate protective immunity in the same inbred strain of mouse, depending on the method of immunization. Furthermore, the mechanism of protection induced by a single method of immunization may vary among different strains of mice. These data have important implications for the development of pre–erythrocytic–stage vaccines designed to protect a heterogeneous human population, and of assays that predict protective immunity.Keywords
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