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Influências da idade e do ambiente sobre o curso temporal da infecção pelo vírus da Dengue acentuada por anticorpo heterólogo em modelo murino: ensaios comportamentais e histopatológicos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-01-03) DINIZ, Daniel Guerreiro; DINIZ, Cristovam Wanderley Picanço; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2014918752636286
Because the enriched environment (EE) increases the activity of T cells, contribute to the immunopathogenesis of dengue virus infections (VDEN) we hypothesized that animals maintained in an enriched environment (AE) compared with animals from impoverished environment of standard laboratory cages (IE), would develop more severe forms of the disease. Because older animals have less functional decline in adaptive immunity T cells, we tested the hypothesis that AE old mice would show higher number of deaths and more intense clinical signs than age-matched IE animals, and this would be associated with greater expansion of T lymphocytes. To test these hypotheses we established scheme of multiple inoculations in adult animals of 9 and 18 months of age. Two regimens of inoculation were tested: multiple injections of single serotype (VDEN3 genotype III) infected brain homogenate (SS) or alternatively multiple injections with that infected brain homogenate followed 24h later by inoculation of heterologous antibody (SSHA). In both cases multiple i.p. inoculations were done. It was found significant differences in the temporal progression of the disease in the animals submitted to one or another scheme of inoculation: SSHA group (Kaplan -Meier log-rank test, p = 0.0025); IUS (Kaplan -Meier log-rank test, p = 0.089). The survival curves of AE and AP under SSHA regime were extended after a single injection of glucocorticoids, reducing the symptoms and the number of deaths, and these effects were greater in the EE group than in the IE (Kaplan-Meier log-rank test, p = 0.0162). In SSHA scheme, EE group showed clinical signs more intense than the AP and those included dyspnea, tremor, hunched posture, immobility, pre-terminal paralysis, shock and eventual death. Compared to the IE group, the AE group regardless of age showed higher mortality and more severe clinical signs. These more severe clinical signs in EE animals under SSHA regime were associated with increased hyperplasia of T lymphocytes in the spleen and increased infiltration of these cells in the liver, lungs and kidneys. Although lymphocytic hyperplasia and infiltration have been more intense in older than in younger animals, immunostaining for viral antigens in target organs was higher in young than in the aged mice. The presence of the virus in various infected organs were confirmed by real time PCR. Taken together the results suggest that the enriched environment life style exacerbates the subsequent inflammatory response to infection, and that is associated with more severe clinical symptoms, higher mortality and increased T cell expansion. Behavioral and histopathological data validate a new immunocompetent murine model for studies on dengue disease allowing in vivo tests of a number of hypothesis raised by epidemiological and in vitro studies.