Avaliação das lesões encefálicas e fenotipagem de linfócitos T e células dentríticas em linfócitos de cães com leishmaniose visceral

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, José Eduardo dos Santos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/128146; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/16-09-2015/000819084.pdf
• topic: Imunologia veterinaria; Animais - Doenças; Citometria de fluxo; Leishmania; Sistema nervoso central; Positive T-Lymphocytes; Celulas T

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an immune-mediated disease which may cause changes in T lymphocytes population in different organs and tissues, and also an increase in the inflammatory cells population in the brain of infected dogs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the encephalic lesions in brain sections, and to characterize the T lymphocytes subsets CD4+, CD8+, double-positive (DP), double-negative (DN), the TCRs αβ and δγ, and the dendritic cells (CD11c+/MHC-II+) from the regional lymph nodes of the head and the popliteal lymph node using flow cytometry. The results evidenced that the brain of dogs with VL may present inflammatory infiltrates in leptomeninges, choroid plexus and subependymal area. Between the lymph nodes, there was no difference among the T cell subsets, nevertheless, there was noticed a reduction in the CD8+ lymphocytes and an increase in the DN subset as well as the TCR δγ, while CD4+, DP and TCR αβ were detected in amounts closely related to described reference ranges, which suggests that the DN and TCR δγ lymphocytes may be related to the immune response in symptomatic dogs. Altogether, these findings discard the hypothesis that the regional lymph nodes of the head may present a specific pattern of immune response related to the brain lesions in dogs with VL.