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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-7-11
pubmed:abstractText
Previous reports indicate that amphotericin B (AmB) and amphotericin methyl ester (AME) are potent adjuvants and polyclonal B-cell activators, and that most mouse strains can be classified as high or low responders to AmB and AME. In the present study, an inbred strain with very high plasma cholesterol concentration (HC strain) proved to be a low responder. Responses of HC mice to other immune stimuli were normal, suggesting that HC lymphoid cells expressed selectively weak responses to AmB and AME. Plasma levels of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL), and high-density lipoprotein subfraction (HDL2) were very much higher in HC mice than in AKR mice, an AmB-high responder strain. Low responses in vitro to AME were observed with lymphoid cells from HC mice and from AKR----HC bone marrow chimeras, i.e., AmB-high responder strain lymphocytes from a low responder host. However, enhanced AME responses were induced by a 2- or 48-hr preincubation of splenocytes from either HC or AKR mice in medium containing lipoprotein-depleted fetal calf serum. Taken together these studies indicate that plasma lipoproteins can inhibit lymphocyte responses to AME; this seems to account for the low AmB and AME responses of the HC strain. The mechanism of this lipoprotein-induced inhibition remains obscure, but it cannot be accounted for by competitive binding of AmB by lipoproteins.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0008-8749
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
93
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
212-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Modulation by lipoproteins of amphotericin B-induced immunostimulation.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, In Vitro, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't