RRC ID 32261
著者 Nishimura K, Miyaji M.
タイトル Histopathological studies on experimental cryptococcosis in nude mice.
ジャーナル Mycopathologia
Abstract Cryptococcosis in nude (nu/nu) mice was examined histopathologically. In addition, effects of carrageenan and lymph node cell transfer against Cryptococcus infection were investigated. As controls, heterozygous littermates (nu/+mice) and mice of strain ddy (ddy mice) were employed. Each mouse was inoculated intravenously with 10(5) yeast cells of Cryptococcus neoformans suspended in 0.2 ml phosphate-buffered saline. Two mice out of each group were sacrificed at appropriate intervals up to 25 days after inoculation and histopathological sections were prepared from them. They were stained with H & E and by PAS method. Histopathological characteristic in the brain was cyst formation with no cellular response. The brain was more severely in the nu/nu mice than in either the nu/+ ddy mice. In the liver, there was a major difference in histopathological findings between the nu/nu and either of the other groups of mouse. In the nu/nu mice, cyst formation with no cellular response was induced, and on the contrary granuloma formation in the nu/+ and ddy mice. However, the granuloma formation was inhibited in the livers of the nu/+ and ddy mice by administration of carrageenan, and induced in the nu/nu mice be cell transfer. In the spleen and lymph nodes, lesions were severer in nu/nu mice than in either the nu/+ or ddy mice. These results suggested that the fungus' invasiveness of mice was strongly influenced by T-cell dependent mechanism.
巻・号 68(3)
ページ 145-53
公開日 1979-9-28
DOI 10.1007/BF00578522
PMID 316872
MeSH Animals Brain / pathology Cryptococcosis / pathology* Disease Models, Animal* Immunity, Cellular Liver / pathology Mice Mice, Nude / immunology* T-Lymphocytes / immunology
IF 2.452
リソース情報
病原微生物 IFM 5833