Natural cellular resistance of beige mice against Cryptococcus neoformans
Previous reports have demonstrated that natural killer (NK) cells are capable of inhibiting the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro, and recent studies indicate that adoptively transferred NK cell-enriched spleen cell populations enhance clearance of cryptococci from the tissues of cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients. The primary objective of these studies was to confirm that NK cells participate in early clearance of C. neoformans in vivo. Secondarily, the anti-cryptococcal activities of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and macrophages were examined. Seven-week-old C57BL/6 bg/+ mice, which have normal levels of NK cell activity, were compared with their bg/bg littermates, which have impaired NK cell function. One and 3 days after injecting both groups of mice i.v. with 2 x 10/sup 4/ cryptococci, the authors assessed the NK cell activities in spleens, lungs, and livers and clearance of the organism from corresponding tissues as determined by the mean log/sub 1//sup 0/ numbers of cryptococcal colony-forming units (CFU) per organ. Although the data indicated a correlation between early clearance of cryptococci from tissues and levels of NK cell activities in the corresponding tissues, it was also possible that differences in phagocytic cell function between the bg/+ and bg/bg animals could account for the observed differences in clearance of cryptococci from the tissues. These data indicate that NK cells were the effector cells responsible for enhanced early clearance of cryptococci from the tissues of bg/+ animals when compared with clearance from the tissues of the bg/bg littermates. Furthermore, they confirm the hypothesis that NK cells can affect C. neoformans under in vivo conditions.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman
- OSTI ID:
- 6830070
- Journal Information:
- J. Immunol.; (United States), Vol. 137:11
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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