Phenolic glycolipid 1 of Mycobacterium leprae causes nonspecific inflammation but has no effect on cell-mediated responses in mice.
AUTOR(ES)
Brett, S J
RESUMO
The involvement of the phenolic glycolipid from Mycobacterium leprae in cell-mediated immunity has been investigated in this study. The phenolic glycolipid itself does not appear to stimulate cell-mediated immunity directly, as shown by its failure to elicit a classical delayed-type hypersensitivity response in mice immunized with M. leprae or to stimulate M. leprae-immune lymph node cells in a lymphoproliferative assay. Intradermal vaccination with the phenolic glycolipid failed to influence the growth of M. leprae in mouse footpads. A nonspecific inflammatory response to the sonicated glycolipid was observed in mice vaccinated with whole M. leprae and in control animals. No evidence was obtained for any adjuvant or suppressive effect on cell-mediated immunity by the phenolic glycolipid either to M. leprae or an unrelated antigen (sheep erythrocytes); neither sensitization nor elicitation to either antigen was affected.
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