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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-2-18
pubmed:abstractText
Eosinophilia in blood and tissues has been strongly associated with helminth infections for over a century. In vivo depletion of IL-5, a cytokine crucially involved in eosinophilopoiesis with an antibody or through genetic manipulation, reproducibly abrogates helminth-induced eosinophilia, but renders mice permissive only in some models of parasite infection. In the current study, we compared the ability of IL-5(-/-) and B6(+/+) mice to clear intraperitoneal infections with Brugia pahangi L3. IL-5(-/-) mice had statistically significantly higher worm burdens than B6(+/+). This was true for primary infections, in young as well as old mice, suggesting that IL-5 deficient mice are more permissive to Brugian infections. This increase in permissiveness seemed to correlate well with the drastically reduced eosinophil numbers in the peritoneal cavity, the site of infection. In secondary infections, primed IL-5(-/-) mice cleared infections in an accelerated manner, comparable with B6(+/+) mice. These observations suggest that IL-5 induced eosinophilia is more important in the control of a primary infection in naïve mice than a secondary infection in primed mice.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0014-4894
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
105
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
131-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Brugia pahangi, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Eosinophilia, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Eosinophils, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Filariasis, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Immunoglobulin E, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Immunoglobulin G, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Immunoglobulin M, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Immunoglobulins, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Interleukin-5, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Macrophages, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Peritoneal Cavity, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Recurrence, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms, pubmed-meshheading:14969690-T-Lymphocytes
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Impaired clearance of primary but not secondary Brugia infections in IL-5 deficient mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article