Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine whether changes in the ileal intraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL) phenotype and function occurred prior to development of diarrhea in Cryptosporidium parvum - infected calves. Calves were orally inoculated with 108 oocysts and maintained in enteric pathogen-free conditions until their use in experiments. Age-matched uninfected calves were used for comparisons. Ileal IELs were isolated and phenotyped to determine whether changes in lymphocyte population dynamics had occurred by 3 days postinoculation (PI). Ex vivo reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) from IELs from infected calves was compared with controls to determine whether changes in cytokine expression had occurred by 3 days PI. No significant changes in lymphocyte population dynamics were documented; however, IELs isolated from 4 out of 8 infected calves, but not from 8 out of 8 control calves, expressed mRNA for interleukin-10 (IL-10). IL-10 expression by IELs was associated with the expression of a significantly larger (P < 0.001) proportion (0.75) of monoclonal antibody - defined C. parvum epitopes within infected ileal epithelium, as compared with a much smaller proportion (0.30) of epitopes with IL-10-lymphocytes. The results suggest that a temporal association exists between the expression of IL-10 by ileal IELs and the expression of C. parvum antigens in infected calf epithelium prior to development of cryptosporidiosis.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 281-286 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Parasitology |
Volume | 88 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2002 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Parasitology
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics