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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 2 744-752, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Activation-induced CD4+ T cell death by apoptosis in experimental Chagas' disease

MF Lopes, VF da Veiga, AR Santos, ME Fonseca and GA DosReis
Department of Immunology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Infection of mice with Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative protozoan agent of human Chagas' disease, leads to immunosuppression of the T cell compartment and to chronic cardiac inflammation which resembles the human infection. Recently, reinduction of programmed cell death by apoptosis in mature T cells has been demonstrated. It has been suggested that mature T cell apoptosis could play a role in immunosuppression caused by virus infection. In this report, we have investigated the occurrence of mature T cell apoptosis in murine experimental Chagas' disease. Infection with T. cruzi metacyclic forms led to a relative accumulation of CD8 T cells over CD4 T cells in the spleens of infected mice. Splenic T cells from T. cruzi-infected donors, but not from control littermates, died in vitro upon stimulation with T cell mitogens Con A and anti-TCR-alpha beta mAb in a dose-dependent fashion. DNA fragmentation into nucleosome-sized bands was detected in the supernatants of CD4+ T cells from infected origin, after stimulation with the T cell mitogen Con A. Upon in vitro stimulation with either anti-TCR-alpha beta or Con A, CD4+ T cells were susceptible to elimination, whereas CD8+ T cells were not. Splenic T cells from infected donors were markedly unresponsive to anti-TCR mAb in proliferative assays and underwent apoptosis in vitro, as assessed by electron microscopy. Apoptosis also occurred in vivo in the course of acute infection, as seen by DNA fragmentation in freshly explanted splenic cells and purified T cell subsets. The data indicate that activation-induced CD4+ T cell death by apoptosis is a prominent feature of experimental infection with T. cruzi, and could play a role in immunosuppression and parasite persistence in infected hosts.


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