Avaliação da interferência da tolerância oral na rejeição do transplante de coração alogênico avascular na orelha de camundongo

Valência, Alberto; Bastos, Eduardo Sérgio; Conceição, Vinicius da; Campos, Sylvia Maria da Nicolau; Carvalho, Isabela di Puglia; Madi, Kalil; Teixeira, Gerlinde Agate Platais Brasil

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“…It is believed that the mechanisms by which the eggs travel through the intestinal wall tissues include modulation of local immune responses favoring their migration towards the intestinal lumen. Furthermore, the intestinal mucosa is an environment with a certain degree of antigen tolerance 35,36 , which likely adds to the reduced antigenicity of intact egg surface.…”

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Evaluation of the immunogenicity of Schistosoma mansoni egg surface

Candido

Pierre

Jones

et al. 2017

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.

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Introduction: Immunogenicity of Schistosoma mansoni egg surface was examined to determine whether intact eggshells have lower antigenicity than ruptured eggs. Methods: Swiss Webster mice were inoculated with intact or ultrasonicated S. mansoni eggs isolated from infected human feces. Mice were separated into four groups of six animals each and immunizations were performed approximately every 20 days during a 60-day period. Groups 1-4 were administered with saline solution, sonicated eggs with Freund's adjuvant, sonicated eggs without Freund's adjuvant, and intact eggs, respectively. IgG humoral immune response was assessed by ELISA using Soluble Egg Antigen produced from eggs isolated from the livers of infected mice. Results: Sonicated eggs co-administered with adjuvant induced the highest humoral response at 58 days, which was 11.9-fold (95% CI 6.2-17.5) greater than the response induced by saline solution. Sonicated eggs without adjuvant induced a 4.3-fold stronger response (95% CI 2.4-6.2) than normal saline. Intact eggs induced humoral response that was nominally twice stronger (95% CI 0.8-3.2) than that induced by normal saline but the effect did not reach statistical significance. Conclusions: Soluble antigens are not abundant on the surface of S. mansoni eggs and/or are not secreted in sufficient quantities to induce a significant immune response to intact eggs. Assuming that isolation procedures had not damaged the eggs used for inoculation, our observations suggest that intact eggs either do not induce a significant immune response or, if they do, the mechanism involves insoluble antigens from the egg surface.

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