scholarly journals Kinetics of Immune Response of Indian Major Carps to Sheep Red Blood Cells (SRBC)

Author(s):  
B. Kalita ◽  
Hemanta Pokhrel ◽  
C.V. Mohan ◽  
K.M. Shankar
2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinne Snoeijs ◽  
Evi Van Den Steen ◽  
Marcel Eens ◽  
Rianne Pinxten

AbstractMeasuring the primary antibody immune response to an injection with sheep red blood cells (SRBC) is a routine application in poultry science. Recently, this technique is also becoming an increasingly popular tool to investigate humoral immunocompetence in free-living birds in studies of ecological immunology and immunotoxicology. However, an extensive search of the literature revealed that many of these studies have been measuring the primary immune response to SRBC without verifying first when maximum levels of antibodies are reached in the bird species under study. In addition, most studies assessed antibody titres to SRBC approximately 6 days after their inoculation assuming a similar pattern as found in poultry. We tested this assumption of a uniform pattern of kinetics of the primary humoral immune response to SRBC across bird species and investigated it in detail in two important model species, namely the great tit Parus major and the European starling Sturnus vulgaris. In general, the pattern was found to be the same in both passerine species and strongly resembled the pattern observed in chickens. Maximum antibody levels (the plateau phase) were reached on, respectively, day 5 and day 6 (with day of inoculation = day 0) of the immune response in the great tit and the starling and lasted for 3 days in both species. We found no effects of age, sex or time spent in captivity. Furthermore, our findings suggest that antibody levels to SRBC should not be obligatory assessed during the plateau phase of maximum antibody levels although it still remains most accurate to do so or at least shortly before or after it. Overall, we conclude that antibody levels have been reliably assessed in most avian studies using this technique.


1969 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabih I. Abdou ◽  
Maxwell Richter

Irradiated rabbits given allogeneic bone marrow cells from normal adult donors responded to an injection of sheep red blood cells by forming circulating antibodies. Their spleen cells were also capable of forming many plaques using the hemolysis in gel technique, and were also capable of undergoing blastogenesis and mitosis and of incorporating tritiated thymidine upon exposure to the specific antigen in vitro. However, irradiated rabbits injected with allogeneic bone marrow obtained from rabbits injected with sheep red blood cells 24 hr prior to sacrifice (primed donors) were incapable of mounting an immune response after stimulation with sheep red cells. This loss of reactivity by the bone marrow from primed donors is specific for the antigen injected, since the immune response of the irradiated recipients to a non-cross-reacting antigen, the horse red blood cell, is unimpaired. Treatment of the bone marrow donors with high-titered specific antiserum to sheep red cells for 24 hr prior to sacrifice did not result in any diminished ability of their bone marrow cells to transfer antibody-forming capacity to sheep red blood cells. The significance of these results, with respect to the origin of the antigen-reactive and antibody-forming cells in the rabbit, is discussed.


1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (1) ◽  
pp. C58-C64 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. Ryu ◽  
N. C. Adragna ◽  
P. K. Lauf

The kinetic parameters and transport mechanism of Na-Li exchange were studied in both low K (LK) and high K (HK) sheep red blood cells with cellular Na [( Na]i) and Li concentrations [( Li]i) adjusted by the nystatin technique (Nature New Biol. 244: 47-49, 1973 and J. Physiol. Lond. 283: 177-196, 1978). Maximum velocities (Vm) for Li fluxes and half-activation constants (K1/2) for Li and Na of the Na-Li exchanger were determined. The K1/2 values for both Li and Na appeared to be similar in both cell types, although they were about two to three times lower on the inside than on the outside of the membrane. Furthermore, the K1/2 values for Li were at least an order of magnitude smaller than those for Na, suggesting substantial affinity differences for these two cations. The Vm values for Li fluxes, on the other hand, appear to be lower in HK than in LK cells. When Na and Li fluxes were measured simultaneously, a trans stimulatory effect by Na on Li fluxes was observed. From measurements of Li influx at different concentrations of external Li and different [Na]i, the ratio of the apparent Vm to the apparent external Li affinity was calculated to be independent of [Na]i for both types of sheep red blood cells. Similar trans effects of external Na were observed on Li efflux at varying [Li]i. These results are expected for a system operating by a “ping-pong” mechanism.


1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (1) ◽  
pp. C99-C105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. C. Xu ◽  
P. B. Dunham ◽  
B. Dyer ◽  
R. Blostein

Na(+)-K+ pumps of red blood cells from sheep of the low-K+ (LK) phenotype undergo differentiation during circulation, manifested in part by a striking increase in sensitivity to inhibition by intracellular K+ (Ki). Pumps of red blood cells from sheep from the allelic phenotype, high K+ (HK), do not undergo this type of maturation. The hypothesis was tested that the Lp antigen, found on LK but not HK cells, is responsible for the maturation of LK pumps. Lp antigens have been shown to inhibit LK pumps because anti-Lp antibody stimulates the pumps by relieving inhibition by the antigen. Lp antigens were recently shown to be molecular entities separate from Na(+)-K+ pumps [Xu, Z.-C., P. Dunham, J. Munzer, J. Silvius, and R. Blostein. Am. J. Physiol. 263 (Cell Physiol. 32): C1007-C1014, 1992]. The test of the hypothesis was to modify the Lp antigens of immature LK red blood cells with two kinds of treatments, anti-Lp antibody and trypsinization (which cleaves Lp), and to observe the effects of these treatments on maturation of pumps during culture of the cells in vitro. Both of these treatments prevented the maturation of the kinetics of the pumps to the Ki-sensitive pattern, supporting the hypothesis that interaction of the pumps with Lp antigens is responsible for the maturation of the pumps. Strong supportive evidence came from experiments on Na(+)-K+ pumps from rat kidney delivered into immature LK sheep red blood cells by microsome fusion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Croix ◽  
N.K. Samples ◽  
J.L. Vandeberg ◽  
W.H. Stone

1968 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 1109-1126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. McMaster ◽  
Robert E. Franzl

The effects of a single injection of a bacterial endotoxin on the cellular changes of a primary immune response to a standard dose of sheep red blood cells were studied in the spleens and mesenteric lymph nodes of mice. Daily histological comparisons of these organs in mice, injected with endotoxin, or with antigen, or both, showed that endotoxin given simultaneously with sheep red blood cells, as antigen, significantly enhanced all of the cellular changes that appear in the mesenteric lymph nodes and spleens of mice that form antibody when that antigen is given alone. First, in the white pulp of the spleens and cortical regions of the nodes, there appeared an early and excessive proliferation of the large pyroninophilic cells which seems to be responsible for the earliest formation of antibody, as judged by this work and that of others cited in the body of the paper. Polymorphonuclear cells invaded the spleens of these animals early after simultaneous challenge with antigen and endotoxin, and in far greater numbers than have ever been seen in mice given the same antigen without endotoxin. "Activated" germinal centers formed in the lymphoid tissue either 1 day before the appearance of antibody in the blood stream or on the same day, and they became larger than in the mice given antigen only. On the other hand, these specific and characteristic cellular changes failed to appear in mice prevented from forming any antibody at all by injections of endotoxin given 2 days before the antigenic challenge. These findings are discussed in the light provided by data from recent reports of others as well as in the light of the accompanying paper (1) which demonstrated not only the enhancement of antibody formation following simultaneous injections of antigen and endotoxin, as already known, but a totally unexpected, complete suppression of its formation when endotoxin was given 2 days before antigen.


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