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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 150, Issue 8 3434-3441, Copyright © 1993 by American Association of Immunologists

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A primary intestinal helminthic infection rapidly induces a gut- associated elevation of Th2-associated cytokines and IL-3

A Svetic, KB Madden, XD Zhou, P Lu, IM Katona, FD Finkelman, JF Urban Jr and WC Gause
Department of Microbiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814.

The immune response that is characteristic of parasitic helminth infections includes components associated with immediate-type hypersensitivity: elevated serum IgE, eosinophilia, and intestinal mast cell hyperplasia. In infection with the parasitic nematode, Heligmosomoides polygyrus, IL-4 mediates protective immunity, suggesting the presence of a host-protective Th2 response. In this investigation, we examined early stages of immune responsiveness to H. polygyrus infection to determine whether and at what stage a specific Th2-like pattern first appears. Using a quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay, we analyzed changes in IL-2, IFN-gamma, IL-3, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-9, and IL-10 gene expression in the spleen, mesenteric lymph node, and Peyer's patch at various time points after infection. Our results demonstrate a highly specific and reproducible pattern of cytokine gene expression that remains localized to the enteric region. By 6 h after infection, IL-5 and IL-9 mRNA were elevated in the Peyer's patch and IL-3 was elevated by 12 to 24 h after infection. IL-4 RNA became elevated by 4 to 6 days after infection, but little change was observed in IFN-gamma, IL-2, or IL-10 mRNA levels. The early increases in IL-3, IL-5, and IL-9 gene expression after infection were probably T cell-independent, inasmuch as they were observed in Peyer's patches of congenitally athymic mice and anti-CD4, anti-CD8 mAb-treated conventional mice. However, treatment with these mAb considerably decreased cytokine gene expression 6 days after infection, and 8 days after infection, increased IL-4 gene expression in mesenteric lymph node cells was restricted to the CD4+ population. Thus, H. polygyrus infection induces cytokine gene expression that is restricted to some Th2-associated cytokines, is initiated by a T-independent response, and culminates in a T-dependent response.


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