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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2002

Idiotypes expressed early in experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections predict clinical outcomes of chronic disease.

M Angela Montesano, Daniel G Colley, Margaret T Willard, George L Freeman, W Evan Secor

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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M Angela MontesanoDivision of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.
Daniel G Colley
Margaret T Willard
George L Freeman
W Evan Secor

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In murine Schistosoma mansoni infections, schistosome-specific cross-reactive idiotypes (CRI) are present in the sera of mice with moderate splenomegaly syndrome (MSS) at 20 wk after infection. In contrast, sera from animals that have the more severe hypersplenomegaly syndrome (HSS) at 20 wk of infection do not express these CRI in their sera. To examine when these regulatory CRI first appear in mice that eventually develop MSS, sera from infected animals were monitored for CRI from 1.5 to 20 wk of infection. In mice that eventually developed MSS, CRI were detected by 5 to 6 wk after infection, plateaued by 8 to 10 wk, and persisted through 20 wk of infection. Animals that developed HSS pathology or that died before 20 wk of infection never expressed CRI. Moreover, CRI levels present in the sera of mice at 6 wk of infection were inversely correlated with splenomegaly and hepatic fibrosis, but not with parasitologic measures, at 20 wk after infection. These results suggest that critical events occur very early in some schistosome infections that induce the production of regulatory idiotypes and that the presence or absence of these idiotypes predicts, and possibly determines, subsequent morbidity.

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Immunoglobulin IdiotypesAnimalsChronic DiseaseCross ReactionsDisease Models, AnimalMaleMiceMice, Inbred CBARegression AnalysisSchistosomiasis mansoniSplenomegalySyndromeTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeImmunoglobulin Idiotypes

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PMID11994428
PMCPMC2193715

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