Immunoregulatory responses in experimental disseminated histoplasmosis: depression of T-cell-dependent and T-effectory responses by activation of splenic suppressor cells
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 23 (3), 893-902
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.23.3.893-902.1979
Abstract
The cellular immune responses of mice with disseminated histoplasmosis are markedly diminished in association with the generation of potent immunosuppressor activity by spleen cells. The zenith of suppressor activity was observed during most active infection, from 1 to 3 weeks after inoculation. During this time there was: (i) depression of the delayed-type hypersensitivity response to sheep erythrocytes and histoplasmin, (ii) impairment of concanavalin A- and histoplasmin-induced blastogenic transformations by splenocytes in vitro, (iii) depressed cytotoxic activity of spleen cells from infected mice, and (iv) marked suppression by splenocytes from infected mice of the primary antibody response to sheep erythrocytes by normal spleen cell cultures. With resolution of the infection by week 8, there was a shift of immunoregulatory function from dominant suppressor activity to expression of helper activity. At this time, delayed-type hypersensitivity responses to the above antigens were vigorous; furthermore, the cytotoxic activity and plaque-forming cell response of splenocytes from 8-week-infected mice were equal to or greater than normal control values. The shift in the immunoregulatory response from a suppressor to a helper mode indicated that the net amount of help or suppression measured at any given time during infection represented the algebraic sum of both helper and suppressor activities mediated by different populations or subpopulations of cells within the splenic microenvironment of infected mice.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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