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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Interação entre componentes biológicos de triatomíneos não infectados e soros de pacientes chagásicos crônicos / Interaction between biological components of insects and uninfected sera of chronic Chagas patients

Antonio Marcos de Apparecida Levy 09 May 2003 (has links)
Investigou-se a existência de relação entre células normais de triatomíneos, formas evolutivas do T.cruzi e hospedeiros mamíferos. Hemócitos do vetor de espécies hematófagas não infectadas (Triatoma infestans, T. palidipennis, Dipetalogaster maximus, Rhodnius prolixus e Panstrongylus megistus) foram reconhecidos por soros de pacientes e camundongos infectados com Trypanosoma cruzi, por meio da técnica de imunofluorescência, enquanto que os hemócitos de um inseto fitófago, Diactor billineatus (ninfas e adultos) não foram reconhecidos pelos mesmos soros. Uma parcial reação cruzada foi observada entre hemócitos de T. infestans e soros de portadores de leishmaniose , o que não ocorreu com as amostras de portadores de doenças autoimunes, infecção com HIV e indivíduos normais. O tratamento de hemócitos com metaperiodato de sódio aboliu a fluorescência, mostrando que antígenos carboidratos estão envolvidos. O uso de lectinas marcadas revelou que N acetil-d-glicosamina, manose, glicose e βgal fazem parte da estrutura celular. O immunoblotting com extrato de hemócitos foi realizado com soros de pacientes chagásicos crônicos antes e depois do tratamento específico. Estes soros de ambos casos foram absorvidos com tripomastigotas e epimastigotas. Um número considerável de bandas desapareceu nos soros tratados com tripomastigotas, mas não com epimastigotas. Proteínas de 61-70, 41-50, 31-40 e 21-30 kDa foram as envolvidas no processo de absorção. Após a quimioterapia, as bandas de 121-130, 91-100, 81-90 e 61-60 kDa desapareceram nos soros não absorvidos. Um grupo de camundongos fêmeas A/Sn foi imunizado com hemolinfa livre de hemócitos (HL) e outro grupo com hemócitos (Hc) e desafiados com 5x102 tripomastigotas sangüícolas.(cepa Y). Picos de parasitemia dos camundongos HL e Hc foram observados um ou dois dias após o grupo controle. Apesar da parasitemia de ambos os grupos ter sido baixa, o grupo HL apresentou 43% de mortalidade, enquanto que o grupo Hc mostrou apenas 14 % de mortalidade. As citocinas IFNγ e TNFα estão envolvidas no processo de proteção,\' assim como óxido nítrico e anticorpos líticos. Os hemócitos induziram uma redução de IL-10, inibindo a resposta Th2. Desde que os hemócitos e tripomastigotas compartilham epítopos comuns, epítopos de hemócitos devem ser melhor estudados em virtude de seu potencial uso no imunodiagnóstico, imunoproteção e avaliação terapêutica. / Immunological relationship between normal triatomine cells, developmental life-cycle stages of T. cruzi and infected mammal hosts was investigated. Hemocytes from uninfected hematophagous vector species of triatomines (Triatoma infestans, T. palidipennis, Dipetalogaster maximus, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus) were recognized by sera from patients and mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, by means of immunofluorescence assay (IFA), whereas hemocytes from a phytophagous bug, Diactor billineatus (nymphs and adults) were not recognized by the same sera. Hemocytes from T. infestans were partially recognized by leishmaniasis sera, but, not by samples from patients with autoimmune diseases, HIV positive sera. The treatment of hemocytes with sodium metaperiodate practically abolished the fluorescence staining, indicating the presence of carbohydrate antigens. These antigens were revealed be comprised of N acetyl-D-glucosamine, mannose and glucose and βgal, by means of fluorescent labelled lectins. Sera from chronic chagasic patients before and after the chemotherapy were reactive with hemocytes of P. megistus on immunoblotting, and the same sera previously absorbed with formaldehyde fixed cultured epimastigotes as well trypomastigotes. On immunoblotting a substantial number of bands diminished with sera absortion with trypomastigotes, but not with epimastigotes. Proteins of 61-70, 41-50, 31-40 and 21-30 kDa were the major proteins involved in the process of serum absorptions. After chemotherapy, protein bands of 121-130, 91-100, 81-90 and 51-60 kDa disappeared in unabsorbed sera. A group of female A/Sn mice were immunized with hemolymph free of hemocytes (MHL) and other group with hemocytes (MHC). Animais were challenged with 5x102 bloodstream trypomastigotes (Y strain). Parasitemia peaks of MHL and MHC groups were observed one or two days after the control group. In spite of the parasitemia for both groups was about 63% lower than the control group, the mortality for the MHL was 43%, differing from the MHC, which was 14% only. The Cytokines, IFNγ and TNFα, were shown to be involved in the protection of immunized mice, and also the nitric oxide and complement dependent lytic antibodies. Hemocytes showed to play a role in the reduction of the IL-10 production, inhibiting Th2 response. Thus, hemocytes and trypomastigotes share common epitopes, and these epitopes are potentially useful for immunodiagnosis, immunopratection, and evaluation of chemotherapic efficiency in Chagas\' disease control.

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