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* Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany;
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany; and
Abteilung für Neuropathologie, Klinikum der Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite causing asymptomatic, persistent encephalitis. Protective CD4 and CD8 T cells are recruited to and accumulate in the brain in acute Toxoplasma encephalitis (TE), with slowly decreasing numbers in chronic TE. It is unclear how the size of the intracerebral T cell pool is regulated. Conceivably, permanent recruitment, proliferation, and apoptosis may be involved. We observed that in murine TE recruitment of T cells to the brain was terminated in chronic TE. In vivo 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine incorporation and in vitro T cell proliferation experiments revealed that intracerebral T cells did not proliferate, which was explained by the expression of the cell cycle inhibitors p21Waf/cip1 and p27Kip1 and the inhibitory activity of intracerebral F4/80+ cells. TUNEL staining detected apoptotic T cells at low frequency corresponding to an increased expression of the anti-apoptotic molecules Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL and a reduced expression of the pro-apoptotic molecules Bad, Bax, and Fas ligand in CD4 and CD8 T cells. During progression from acute to chronic TE, both CD4 and CD8 T cells down-regulated CD45RB expression and expressed a differential pattern of cytokines. From these experiments it is concluded that the number of intracerebral T cells increases by recruitment of T cells during acute infection, whereas proliferation of intracerebral T cells does not play a role. In chronic TE, T cell recruitment is terminated, the phenotype of intracerebral T cells changes, and their number is gradually downsized by low level apoptosis, which, however, does not completely resolve the T cell infiltrates.
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