Methylprednisolone acetate immune suppression produces differing effects on Cryptosporidium muris oocyst production depending on when administered.

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Methylprednisolone acetate immune suppression produces differing effects on Cryptosporidium muris oocyst production depending on when administered. Abstract Text:

Thomas A Miller,Frank W Schaefer,

At different times after inoculation with Cryptosporidium muris, infected CF-1 female mice were immunosuppressed with a single subcutaneous dose of methylprednisolone acetate (MPA; 600 mg/kg). MPA immunosuppression decreases circulating CD3, CD4 and CD8 T-lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes by greater than 90% for approximately 14 days with numbers not returning to pre-suppression levels until after 41 days post-suppression. Immunosuppression was initiated at selected times before, during, and after oocyst production. Immunosuppression initiated prior to oocyst production delayed the start of production by 4-5 days and extended oocyst shedding by 16 days. Initiation of immunosuppression during oocyst production both extended oocyst shedding and greatly increased the number of oocysts shed per day over most of the extended shedding period. Immunosuppression during the decline of oocyst production resulted in only a moderate extension of shedding and a moderate increase in oocyst numbers. Immunosuppression initiated soon after oocyst shedding had ceased resulted in the re-initiation of limited oocyst production for only a few days. Suppression initiated on days 40 and 46 post-infection, 11 and 17 days after oocysts could no longer be detected in the feces, did not result in a resumption of oocyst production. In all cases, where oocyst production was extended or reinitiated, the shedding of oocysts halted between days 45 and 53 post-oocyst inoculation. These studies demonstrate that the effect of MPA immunosuppression depends on the immunologic conditions existing in the host at the time immunosuppression was initiated. Immunosuppression initiated during oocyst production allows an overwhelming parasitism to exist, implying that T- and B-lymphocytes play an important role in moving the host immune process along during this period of the infection. Conversely, severe suppression of T- and B-lymphocytes initiated as oocyst production is decreasing does not result in a complete relapse of the disease suggesting that T- and B-lymphocytes are not critical to the continuation of the immune process after this point. These studies also show that the C. muris infection persists beyond the end of the detection of oocysts in the feces.

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Methylprednisolone acetate immune suppression produces differing effects on Cryptosporidium muris oocyst production depending on when administered. Journal Published:

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Journal: Veterinary parasitology

VOLUME: 149

Page Numbers: 77-84

Journal Abbreviation: Vet. Parasitol.

ISSN: 0304-4017

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MONTH: 08

YEAR: 2007

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