对乙酰氨基酚,一种用于优化小鼠弓形虫病实验性感染的新工具。
Acetaminophen, a new tool for the refinement of the experimental infection of toxoplasmosis in mice.
作者信息
Moiré Nathalie, Cauty Axel, Rossignol Christelle, Beaugé Corinne, Mérat Laetitia, Lortscher Emilie, Debierre-Grockiego Françoise, Dimier-Poisson Isabelle, Riou Mickaël
机构信息
INRAE-Université de Tours, UMR-1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique (ISP), Équipe BIOMAP, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, 31 Avenue Monge, 37200, Tours, France.
INRAE, UE-1277 Plateforme d'Infectiologie expérimentale (PFIE), Centre Val de Loire, 37380, Nouzilly, France.
出版信息
Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 1;15(1):22157. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-06849-2.
In recent years, animal welfare gained increasing importance in society and especially in scientific research. It has become necessary to refine the experimental procedures as much as possible in infectiology as in our reference model, toxoplasmosis, in accordance with the 3Rs rule and various ethical concerns. Thus, the establishment of a treatment using analgesics would provide relief to animals acutely infected with Toxoplasma gondii. However, the use of analgesics should in no way alter the pathophysiology of the disease and the host immune response, so as not to interfere with the initial scientific study. Little is currently known about the use of acetaminophen (APAP) in an infectious model. In the present work, we studied the impact of APAP at a reference dose of 30 mg/kg/day in a mouse model of acute toxoplasmosis. Zoonotic, telemetric, behavioral, histological and immune parameters were analyzed to better characterize the consequences of treatment with APAP either by gavage or by self-medication in Gel Water. APAP administered by gavage did not induce cellular or tissue toxicity or alter the physiological development of the mice. In addition, the nature of Gel Water itself, independent of APAP, had an effect on the immune response. APAP improved overall well-being and slowed the onset of clinical signs without altering the physiopathology or the immune responses induced by T. gondii. These first results in mice confirmed our initial hypothesis that APAP appears to be a pharmacological tool to refine and improve animal welfare during the acute phase of toxoplasmosis. Therefore, our project has highlighted the combination of specific markers to contribute to animal welfare in mice. In the long term, the use of APAP could be extended to other infectious models with other target animal species.
近年来,动物福利在社会中,尤其是在科学研究中变得越来越重要。在传染病学领域,如同在我们的参考模型弓形虫病中一样,根据3R原则和各种伦理考量,尽可能优化实验程序已变得十分必要。因此,建立一种使用镇痛药的治疗方法将为急性感染刚地弓形虫的动物减轻痛苦。然而,镇痛药的使用绝不应改变疾病的病理生理学和宿主免疫反应,以免干扰最初的科学研究。目前对于对乙酰氨基酚(APAP)在感染模型中的使用了解甚少。在本研究中,我们以30mg/kg/天的参考剂量,在急性弓形虫病小鼠模型中研究了APAP的影响。分析了人畜共患病、遥测、行为、组织学和免疫参数,以更好地描述通过灌胃或在凝胶水中自行给药使用APAP治疗的后果。通过灌胃给予APAP不会诱导细胞或组织毒性,也不会改变小鼠的生理发育。此外,独立于APAP的凝胶水本身的性质对免疫反应有影响。APAP改善了整体健康状况,延缓了临床症状的出现,同时没有改变由刚地弓形虫诱导的病理生理学或免疫反应。小鼠的这些初步结果证实了我们最初的假设,即APAP似乎是一种在弓形虫病急性期优化和改善动物福利的药理学工具。因此,我们的项目突出了特定标志物的组合对小鼠动物福利的贡献。从长远来看,APAP的使用可以扩展到其他目标动物物种的其他感染模型。