Effect of interleukin-10 on the Paracoccidioides brasiliensis killing by gamma-interferon activated human neutrophils
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2007-01-01
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Costa, Diego Luís [UNESP]
Dias-Melicio, Luciane Alarcão [UNESP]
Acorci, Michele Janegitz [UNESP]
Bordon, Ana Paula [UNESP]
Tavian, Elisandra Garcia [UNESP]
Peraçoli, Maria Terezinha Serrão [UNESP]
Soares, Angela Maria Victoriano de Campos [UNESP]
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Center Academic Publ Japan
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Paracoccidioidomycosis, a deep mycosis endemic in Latin America, is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by the fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Phagocytic cells play a critical role against this fungus, and several studies have shown the effects of activator and suppressive cytokines on macrophage and monocyte functions. However, studies on polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PNINs), that are the first cells recruited to the infection sites, are scarcer. Thus, the objective of this paper was to assess whether interleukin-10 (IL-10), a potent anti-inflammatory cytokine, is able to block the activity of IFN-gamma-activated human PMNs upon P brasiliensis intracellular killing, in vitro. The results showed that IFN-gamma-activated PMNs have an effective fungicidal activity against the fungus. This activity was associated with the release of high levels of H2O2, the metabolite involved in phagocytic cells antifungal activities. However, the concomitant incubation of these cells with IFN-gamma and IL-10 significantly blocked IFN-gamma activation. As a consequence, PNINs killing activity and H2O2 release were inhibited. Together, our results show the importance of PNINs exposure to activator or suppressor cytokines in the early stages of paracoccidioidomycosis infection.
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Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, neutrophils, interleukin-10, gamma-interferon, H2O2
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Microbiology and Immunology. Tokyo: Center Academic Publ Japan, v. 51, n. 1, p. 73-80, 2007.