Maternal Trypanosoma cruzi-specific antibodies and worsening of acute infection in mouse offspring

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-17

  Marques De Araujo, Silvana ^a   Rivera, Maria Teresa ^b   El Bouhdidi, Avachi ^b   De Maertelaer, Viviane ^b   Carlier, Yves ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LACTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 13344275860     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.54.13     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Delgado MA, Santos-Buch CA, 1978. Transplacental transmission and fetal parasitosis of Trypanosoma cruzi in outbred white Swiss mice. Am J Trop Med Hyg 27: 1108-1115.
2. Bittencourt AL, 1988. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease). McLeod C, ed. Parasitic Infections in Pregnancy and the Newborn. Oxford: Oxford Medical Publications, 62-86.
3. Carlier Y, Rivera MT, Truyens C, Ontivero M, Flament J, Van Marck E, De Maertelaer V, 1992. Chagas' disease: decreased resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi acquired infection in offspring of infected mice. Am J Trop Med Hyg 46: 116-122.
4. Davila HO, Revelli SS, Moreno HS, Valenti JL, Musso OC, Poli HO, Morini JC, Botasso OA, 1994. Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi during pregnancy in rats and a decrease in chronic myocardial lesions in their infected offspring. Am J Trop Med Hyg 50: 506-511.
5. Miles MA, Macedo V, Castro C, Draper CC, 1974. Trypanosoma cruzi prenatal transfer of maternal antibody in man. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 62: 286.
6. Breniere SF, Bailly M, Carrasco R, Carlier Y, 1983. Transmission transplacentaire des anticorps anti-Trypanosoma cruzi. Cah ORSTOM Ser Entamol Med Parasitol 21: 139-140.
7. Kolodny MH, 1939. The transmission of immunity in experimental trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma cruzi) from mother rats to their offspring. Am J Hyg 30: 19-39.
8. Miles MA, 1972. Trypanosoma cruzi-milk transmission of infection and immunity from mother to young. Parasitology 65: 1-9
9. Madani G, Heiner DC, 1989. Antibody transmission from mother to fetus. Curr Opin Immunol 1: 1157-1164.
10. Carlier Y, Truyens C, 1995. Influence of maternal infection on offspring resistance towards parasites. Parasitol Today 11: 94-99.
11. Carlier Y, Rivera MT, Truyens C, Puissant F, Milaire J, 1987. Interactions between chronic murine Trypanosoma cruzi infection and pregnancy: fetal growth retardation. Am J Trop Med Hyg 37: 534-540.
12. El Bouhdidi A, Truyens C, Rivera MT, Bazin H, Carlier Y, 1994. Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice induces a polyisotypic hypergammaglobulinaemia and parasite-specific response involving high IgG2a concentrations and highly avid IgG1 antibodies. Parasite Immunol 16: 69-76.
13. Rivera MT, Marques de Araujo S, Lucas R, Truyens C, Defresne MP, De Baetselier P, Carlier Y, 1995. High tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) production in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected pregnant mice and increased TNF-α gene transcription in their offspring. Infect Immunity 63: 591-595.
14. Simister NE, 1990. Transport of monomeric antibodies across epithelia. Metzger H, ed. Fc Receptors and the Action of Antibodies. Washington, DC. American Society for Microbiology, 57-73.
15. Carlier Y, Rivera MT, Truyens C, Goldman M, Lambert P, Flament J, Bauwens D, Vray B, 1987. Pregnancy and humoral immune response in mice chronically infected by Trypanosoma cruzi. Infect Immun 55: 2496-2501.
16. Baintner K, 1986. Macromolecular absorption in the suckling rat and mouse. Baintner K, ed. Intestinal Absorption of Macromolecules and Immune Transmission from Mother to Young Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 7-54.
17. Fahey JL, Sell S, 1965. The immunoglobulins of mice. V. The metabolic (catabolic) properties of five immunoglobulin classes. J Exp Med 122: 41-58.
18. Bazin H, 1970. Catabolism of the different classes of immunoglobulins in normal and lethally-irradiated mice. Prog Immunobiol Standard 4: 67-70.
19. Weiler IJ, Weiler E, Sprenger R, Cosenza H, 1977. Idiotype suppression by maternal influence. Eur J Immunol 7: 591-597.
20. Brait M, Urbain J, 1994. Regulation idiotypique et hypothese du reseau. Bach JF, ed. Traite d'Immunologie. Medecine Sciences. Paris: Flammarion, 549-564.
21. Eloi-Santos SM, Novato-Silva E, Maselli VM, Gazzinelli G, Colley DG, Correa-Oliveira R, 1989. Idiotypic sensitization in utero of children born to mothers with schistosomiasis or Chagas' disease. J Clin Invest 84: 1028-1031.
22. Fridman WH, 1993. Regulation of B-cell activation and antigen presentation by Fc receptors. Curr Opin Immunol 5: 355-360.
23. Trischmann TM, 1983. Non-antibody-mediated control of parasitemia in acute experimental Chagas' disease. J Immunol 130. 1953-1957.
24. Brener Z, Krettli AU, 1990. Immunology of Chagas' disease. Wyler DJ, ed. Modern Parasite Biology: Cellular, Immunological and Molecular Aspects. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 247-256.
25. Torrico F, Heremans H, Rivera MT, Van Marck E, Billiau A, Carlier Y, 1991. Endogenous IFN-γ is required for resistance to acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice. J Immunol 146: 3626-3632.
26. Schwartz RH, 1993. Immunological tolerance. Paul WE, ed. Fundamental Immunology. New York. Raven Press, 677-731.