TY  - JOUR
A1  - Moll, Heidrun
A1  - Binöder, Kerstin
A1  - Bogdan, Christian
A1  - Solbach, Werner
A1  - Röllinghoff, Martin
T1  - Production of tumour necrosis factor during murine cutaneous leishmaniasis
N2  - We have assessed the role of tumour necrosis factor-a (TNF) during cutaneous leishmaniasis and demonstrated that significant levels of TNF were released by spleen cells from infected mice after in cirro restimulation with Leishmania major promastigotes. Spleen cells from both genetically resistant and genetically susceptible mice were equally capable of producing TNF. After challenge with bacterial endotoxin, TNF activity could also be demonstrated in the serum of L. mujor-infected mice and the titres correlated with the course of cutaneous disease in susceptible and resistant mice. TNF did not exert a direct leishmanicidal effect in uitro. Furthermore, our study indicated that macrophages are the source of L. major-induced TNF activity and that its elicitation is dependent on the presence of T cells. These findings suggest that TNF acts in concert with other cytokines produced during L. major infection and that its role depends on the composition of T cell subsets and cytokines present.
KW  - Immunologie
Y1  - 1990
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-61291
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Solbach, Werner
A1  - Moll, Heidrun
A1  - Röllinghoff, Martin
T1  - Lymphocytes play the music but the macrophage calls the tune
N2  - No abstract available
KW  - Immunologie
Y1  - 1991
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-45889
ER  -