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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
TNF-α mediates the development of anaemia in a murine Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection, but not the anaemia associated with a murine Trypanosoma congolense infection
Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Volume 139, No. 3, Year 2005
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Development of anaemia in inflammatory diseases is cytokine-mediated. Specifically, the levels of tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), produced by activated macrophages, are correlated with severity of disease and anaemia in infections and chronic disease. In African trypanosomiasis, anaemia develops very early in infection around the time when parasites become detectable in the blood. Since the anaemia persists after the first waves of parasitaemia when low numbers of trypanosomes are circulating in the blood, it is generally assumed that anaemia is not directly induced by a parasite factor, but might be cytokine-mediated, as in other cases of anaemia accompanying inflammation. To clarify the role of TNF-α in the development of anaemia, blood parameters of wild type (TNF-α+/+), TNF-α-null (TNF-α-/-) and TNF-α-hemizygous (TNF-α-/+) trypanotolerant mice were compared during infections with the cattle parasite Trypanosoma congolense. No differences in PCV, erythrocyte numbers or haemoglobin were observed between TNF-α-deficient and wild type mice, suggesting that the decrease in erythrocytes was not mediated by TNF-α. Erythropoetin (EPO) levels increased during infection and no significant differences in EPO levels were observed between the three mouse strains. In contrast, during an infection with the human pathogen Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, the number of red blood cells in TNF-α-deficient mice remained significantly higher than in the wild type mice. These data suggest that more than one mechanism promotes the development of anaemia associated with trypanosomiasis. © 2005 British Society for Immunology.
Authors & Co-Authors
Naessens, Jan
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
Kitani, Hiroshi
Japan, Tsukuba
Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Naro
Nakamura, Yoshio
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
Yagi, Y.
Japan, Tsukuba
National Institute of Animal Health, Naro
Sekikawa, Kenji
Japan, Tsukuba
Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Naro
Iraqi, Fuad A.
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
Statistics
Citations: 75
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02717.x
ISSN:
00099104
Research Areas
Cancer