Murray Henry W, Tsai Christine W, Liu Jianguo, Ma Xiaojing
Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Infect Immun. 2006 Jul;74(7):4370-4. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00422-06.
Interleukin-12 (IL-12) orchestrates acquired resistance in intracellular Leishmania donovani infection in the liver, inducing gamma interferon and, in turn, macrophage activation and parasite killing. Nevertheless, testing in IL-18(-/-) mice compared to wild-type mice and in IL-12p40(-/-) compared to IL-12p35(-/-) mice also suggested both early-acting (IL-18) and late-acting (IL-23) antileishmanial effects independent of IL-12.
白细胞介素-12(IL-12)在肝脏细胞内杜氏利什曼原虫感染中协调获得性抗性,诱导γ干扰素,进而激活巨噬细胞并杀死寄生虫。然而,与野生型小鼠相比,在IL-18基因敲除小鼠中进行的测试,以及与IL-12p35基因敲除小鼠相比在IL-12p40基因敲除小鼠中进行的测试,也表明存在独立于IL-12的早期作用(IL-18)和晚期作用(IL-23)的抗利什曼原虫效应。