AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
2004 FEB 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IL-10 regulates early IL-12-mediated immune responses induced by the radiation-attenuated schistosome vaccine.
According to recent research from England, "Radiation-attenuated (RA) schistosomes penetrate the host via the skin where they stimulate intense inflammatory reactions and the release of pro-inflammatory IL-12, important for Th1-type immune responses which are partially host protective. However, RA larvae also induce the secretion of regulatory IL-10. We now show that following vaccination of IL-12p40[superscript]-/- mice, abundant IL-10 was produced by in vitro cultured skin biopsies between days 4 and 14, corresponding to the down-regulation of MHC II expression by cells in the dermis and cells that emigrate from the skin."
"In IL-10[superscript]-/- mice, inflammation of the vaccination site was increased with larger numbers of IL-12p40+, MHC II+ and CD86+ cells in the dermal exudate, and was associated with elevated levels of skin-derived IL-12p40 and IL-1beta," reported Karen G. Hogg and colleagues at the University of York. "These changes in IL-10[superscript]-/- mice were also reflected by an increased number of cells in the skin-draining lymph nodes (sdLN) and greater levels of lymphocyte proliferation. Moreover, such mice had increased numbers of CD4+ sdLN cells that were CD25+, CD28+, or CD152+ and accessory cells that were CD40+ or MHC II+."
"Finally, the secretion of ...