Journal article
Taenia crassiceps: Serum and surface immunoglobulins in metacestode infections of mice
Experimental parasitology, Vol.51(3), pp.418-430
1981
DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(81)90129-6
PMID: 7227489
Abstract
Serum levels of IgM, IgA, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgG3 were measured weekly for 8 weeks by radial immunodiffusion in pooled sera from female BALB/c and BDF1 mice with primary and secondary
Taenia crassiceps infections and age-matched normal control mice of each strain. Although increases in levels of all immunoglobulin classes occurred during primary and secondary infections in both strains of mice, the only consistent changes common to both strains of mice were higher levels of IgG1 and IgG3 in early weeks of secondary infections as compared to primary infections, and high levels of IgG1 late in primary infections. High levels of IgG3 occurred late in primary infections in BDF1 mice but not in BALB/c mice. It was not possible to correlate increased levels of any one immunoglobulin class either with cytotoxic activity of early immune serum or with the onset of the cellular encapsulation response in secondary infections. IgM, IgA, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgG3 could be demonstrated on the surface of washed fixed larvae from long-term infected donor mice by the indirect fluorescent antibody method. Living
T. crassiceps larvae were capable of shedding fluorescent label within 1 hr at room temperature, but not at 4 C after staining with either rabbit anti-
T. crassiceps serum or rabbit anti-mouse immunoglobulin serum and fluorescein-conjugated goat anti-rabbit globulin.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Taenia crassiceps: Serum and surface immunoglobulins in metacestode infections of mice
- Creators
- A.E Siebert - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, U.S.AR.R Blitz - Department of Biology, California State College, Sonoma, Rohnert Park, Calif. 94928, U.S.AC.T Morita - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, U.S.AA.H Good - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, U.S.A
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Experimental parasitology, Vol.51(3), pp.418-430
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/0014-4894(81)90129-6
- PMID
- 7227489
- ISSN
- 0014-4894
- eISSN
- 1090-2449
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1981
- Academic Unit
- Immunology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094579402771
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