Tezuka Hiroyuki, Imai Shinjiro, Tsukidate Setsuko, Fujita Koichiro
Section of Environmental Parasitology, Department of International Health Development, Division of Public Health, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan.
Infect Immun. 2002 Sep;70(9):5283-6. doi: 10.1128/IAI.70.9.5283-5286.2002.
We investigated the effect of recombinant Dirofilaria immitis polyprotein (rDiAg) on nitric oxide (NO) production by peritoneal macrophages. rDiAg induced NO production by macrophages from wild-type and lipopolysaccharide-hyporesponsive C3H/HeJ, but not CD40(-/-), mice. These results suggest that CD40 is involved in rDiAg-driven NO production by murine macrophages.
我们研究了重组犬恶丝虫多聚蛋白(rDiAg)对腹膜巨噬细胞产生一氧化氮(NO)的影响。rDiAg可诱导野生型和对脂多糖反应低下的C3H/HeJ小鼠的巨噬细胞产生NO,但不能诱导CD40基因敲除小鼠的巨噬细胞产生NO。这些结果表明,CD40参与了rDiAg驱动的小鼠巨噬细胞产生NO的过程。