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EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY
卷 127, 期 1, 页码 58-65出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.030
关键词
Trypanosoma cruzi; Leukotrienes; IL-6; Cardiac parasitism; Nitric oxide; Resistance
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资金
- CNPq [471854/2008-5]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, FAEP/UEL
- Fundacao Araucaria [14/2008, 14619]
Leukotrienes are important mediators of inflammatory responses. In this study, we investigated the effect of the absence of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO)-derived leukotrienes on levels of cytokines, nitric oxide (NO) and iNOS expression in cardiac tissue of mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease. NO is a key mediator of parasite killing in mice experimentally infected with T. cruzi, and previous studies have suggested that leukotrienes, such as LTB4, induces NO synthesis in T. cruzi-infected macrophages and plays a relevant role in the killing of parasite in a NO-dependent manner. We therefore investigated whether leukotrienes would have a similar role in vivo in controlling the parasite burden by regulating NO activity. We have made the striking observation that absence of 5-LO-derived leukotrienes results in increased NO and IL-6 production in the plasma with a concomitant decrease in the expression of iNOS in the cardiac tissue on day 12 after T. cruzi infection. These findings indicate that endogenous leukotrienes are important regulators of NO activity in the heart and therefore influence the cardiac parasite burden without exerting a direct action on IL-6 production in the acute phase of infection with T. cruzi. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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