Journal article

IP-10-Mediated T Cell Homing Promotes Cerebral Inflammation over Splenic Immunity to Malaria Infection

Catherine Q Nie, Nicholas J Bernard, M Ursula Norman, Fiona H Amante, Rachel J Lundie, Brendan S Crabb, William R Heath, Christian R Engwerda, Michael J Hickey, Louis Schofield, Diana S Hansen

PLOS PATHOGENS | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2009

Abstract

Plasmodium falciparum malaria causes 660 million clinical cases with over 2 million deaths each year. Acquired host immunity limits the clinical impact of malaria infection and provides protection against parasite replication. Experimental evidence indicates that cell-mediated immune responses also result in detrimental inflammation and contribute to severe disease induction. In both humans and mice, the spleen is a crucial organ involved in blood stage malaria clearance, while organ-specific disease appears to be associated with sequestration of parasitized erythrocytes in vascular beds and subsequent recruitment of inflammatory leukocytes. Using a rodent model of cerebral malaria, we have ..

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