Antigen-specific suppression of cultured lymphocytes from patients with neurocysticercosis

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The biological parasite-host interactions involved in neurocysticercosis (NC) are of a complex nature. A lymphoproliferation assay was performed using mononuclear cells from 11 patients with NC, who were classified according to the alterations obtained by imaging examinations. Antigen extracts from the membrane and/or scolex of Taenia solium and from the vesicular fluid of Taenia crassiceps were used. Mononuclear cells from patients with NC showed antigen-specific suppression when compared with a control group. The patients presenting calcified cysts showed higher suppression when compared with patients in the active phase of disease. The antigen in the vesicular fluid of T. crassiceps seems to play a suppressor role in vitro, completely inhibiting cell proliferation induced by the mitogens phytohaemagglutinin, concanavalin A and pokeweed mitogen.

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Bueno, E. C., Vaz, A. J., Machado, L. R., Livramento, J. A., Ávila, S. L. M., & Ferreira, A. W. (2001). Antigen-specific suppression of cultured lymphocytes from patients with neurocysticercosis. Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 126(2), 304–310. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2249.2001.01579.x

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