Participation of cytokines in the necrotic-inflammatory lesions in the heart and skeletal muscles of Calomys callosus infected with Trypanosoma cruzi

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 555-561

  Magalhães Santos, Isis F ^a   Andrade, Sonia G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calomys callosus; Cytokines; Gamma interferon; Trypanosoma cruzi; Tumor growth factor beta; Tumor necrosis factor alpha

Indexed keywords

CALOMYS CALLOSUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 26444597509     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762005000500017     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Abrahamsohn IA 1998. Cytokines in innate and acquired immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Braz J Med Biol Res 31: 117-121.
2. Andrade SG, Kloetzel JK, Borges MM, Ferrans VJ 1994. Morphological aspects of the myocarditis and myositis in Calomys callosus experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi: fibrogenesis and spontaneous regression of fibrosis. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 89: 379-393.
3. Andrade SG, Magalhães JB 1997. Biodemes and zimodemes of Trypanosoma cruzi strains: correlations with clinical data and experimental pathology. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 30: 27-35.
4. Borges MM, Andrade SG, Pilatti CG, Prado-Jr JC, Kloetzel JK 1992. Macrophage activation and histopathological findings in Calomys callosus and Swiss mice infected with several strains of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 87: 493-502.
5. Borges MM, Mello, DA, Teixeira ML 1982. Infecção experimental de Calomys callosus (Rodentia - Cricetidae) com Trypanosoma cruzi. Rev Saúde Publ São Paulo 16: 233-242.
6. Borges MM, VassaoR, Andrade SG, Pereira CA, Kloetzel JK 1995. Interferon-gamma levels during the course of Trypanosoma cruzi infection of Calomys callosus (Rodentia-Cricetidae) and swiss mice. Pararitol Res 81: 498-504.
7. Branton MH, Kopp JB 1999. TGF-β and fibrosis. Microbes Infect 1: 1349-1365.
8. Cardillo F, Voltarelli JC, Reed SG, Silva JS 1996. Regulation of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice by gamma interferon and interleukin 10: role of NK cells. Infect Immun 64: 128-134.
9. Dos Reis G 1997. Cell-mediated immunity in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Parasitol Today 13: 335-342.
10. Fenton MJ, Vermeulen MW, Kim S, Burdick M, Strieter RM, Kornfeld H 1997. Induction of gamma interferon production in human alveolar macrophages by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infect Immun 65: 5149-5156.
11. Gazzinelli G, Brener Z 1991. Immunological aspects of the morbidity of human Chagas' disease. Res Immunol 142: 167-169.
12. Gazzinelli RT, Oswaldo IP, Hieny S, James SL, Sher 1992. The microbicidal activity of IFNγ treated macrophage against Trypanosoma cruzi involves an 1-arginine-dependent, nitrogen oxide-mediated mechanism inhibitable by IL-10 and TGF-β. Eur J Immunol 22: 2501-2506.
13. Junqueira LCU, Bignolas G, Brentani RR 1979. Picrosirius staining plus polarization microscopy, a specific method for collagen detection in tissue sections. Histochem J 11: 447-455.
14. Lenzi JÁ, Mota EM, Pelajo-Machado M, Paiva RAN, Lenzi HL 1995. Calomys callosus: an alternative model to study fibrosis in schistosomiasis mansoni. The pathology of the acute phase. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 90: 311-318.
15. Lima ES, Andrade ZA, Andrade SG 2001. TNF-α is expressed at sites of parasite and tissue destruction in the spleen of mice acutely infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. Int J Exp Pathol 82: 327-336.
16. Magalhães-Santos IF, Lima ES, Andrade SG 2002. Fibrogenesis and collagen resorption in the heart and skeletal muscle of Calomys callosus experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi: immunohistochemical identification of extracellular matrix components. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 97: 703-710.
17. Magalhães-Santos IF, Souza MM, Costa-Lima CS, Andrade SG 2004. Infection of Calomys callosus (Rodentia cricetidae) with strains of different Trypanosoma cruzi biodemes: pathogenicity, histotropism, and fibrosis induction. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 99: 407-413.
18. Mello DA 1979. Infecção experimental de Calomys callosus (Renger 1830) (Cricetidae - Rodentia) a quatro espécies de parasitos. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 13: 101-105.
19. Mello DA 1982. Roedores marsupiais e triatomíneos silvestres capturados no município de Mambaí-Goiás. Infecção natural pelo Trypanosoma cruzi. Rev Saúde Públ S Paulo 16: 282-291.
20. Morgan J, Dias JC, Gontijo ED, Bahia-Oliveira L, Correa-Oliveira R, Colley DG, Powell MR 1996. Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibody isotype profiles in patients with different clinical manifestations of Chagas' disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg 55: 355-359.
21. Omer F, Kurtzhals J, Riley E 2000. Maintaining the immunological balance in parasitic infections a role of TGFβ? Parasitol Today 16: 18-23.
22. Ralph P, Nakoinz I 1975. Phagocytosis and cytolysis by a macrophage tumour and its cloned cell line. Nature 257: 393-394.
23. Russo M, Starobinas N, Ribeiro SR, Minoprio P, Eisen H, Hontebeyrie JM 1989. Susceptible mice present higher macrophage activation than resistant mice during infections with myotropic strains of Trypanosoma cruzi. Parasite Immunol 11: 385-395.
24. Silva JS, Twardzik DR, Reed SG 1991. Regulation of Trypanosoma cruzi infections in vitro and in vivo by transforming growth factor β (TGF-β). J Exp Med 174: 539-545.
25. Silva JS, Vespa GN, Cardoso MA, Aliberti JC, Cunha FQ 1995. Tumor necrosis factor alpha mediates resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice by inducing nitric oxide production in infected gamma interferon-activated macrophages. Infect Immun 63: 4862-4867.
26. Swian SL 2001. Interleukin 18: tipping the balance towards a T helper cell 1 response. J Exp Med 194: 11-14.
27. Teixeira MM, Gazzinelli RT, Silva JS 2002. Chemokines inflammation and Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Trends Parasitol 18: 262-265.
28. Varga J, Rosenbloom J, Jimenez SA 1987. Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) causes a persistent increase in esteady-state amounts of type I and type III collagen and fibronectin mRNAs in normal human fibroblasts. Biochen J 247: 597-604.
29. Willingham MC, Pastan I 1974. Cyclic AMP mediates the concanavalin A agglutinability of mouse fibroblasts. J Cell Biol 63: 288-294.
30. Zhang L, Tarleton RL 1996. Characterization of cytokine production in murine T. cruzi infection by in situ immunochemistry: lack of association between susceptibility and T helper type 2 cytokine production. European J Immunol 26: 102-109.