Apoptosis modulation in mononuclear cells recovered from individuals exposed to Plasmodium falciparum infection |
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Authors: | Balde A T Aribot G Tall A Spiegel A Roussilhon C |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire d'Immunologie; Laboratoire d'Epidémiologie, Institut Pasteur, BP 220, Dakar, Sénégal. |
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Abstract: | In endemic areas, asymptomatic infection by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum was found associated with elevated percentages of human host's mononuclear cell spontaneous in-vitro apoptosis. In Dielmo, a village where malaria is holoendemic, apoptosis was age-and parasite-dependent. In-vitro exposure of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to the parasite extract induced a marked increase in the mononuclear cell membrane expression of functional CD95 antigen: a 3-h exposure of the mononuclear cells to anti-CD95 antibodies led to a detectable increase in the mean percentage of apoptotic nuclei found in the cultures carried out in the presence of P. falciparum extracts compared to control cultures. IL-2, IL-4, IL-6 and IL-10 promoted the viability of PBMC in cultures while IL-1alpha or IFN-gamma had no obvious impact and TNFalpha gave conflicting results. IL-2 was the most efficient cytokine at rescuing PBMC from cell death and this effect was associated with a strong increase in T cell activation. In contrast, IL-4 and IL-10 had no such effect on T cell activation, hence they acted as survival factors and not through their mitogenic activity. Taken together, these different observations suggested that the levels of in-vitro apoptosis observed were not only associated with parasite infection, but also potentially modulated by the human host through different pathways. |
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Keywords: | apoptosis Plasmodium falciparum cytokine |
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