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Protective Effect of Interferon Inducers on Plasmodium Berghei Malaria
René I. Jahiel
René I. Jahiel
Department of Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016
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Ruth S. Nussenzweig
Ruth S. Nussenzweig
Department of Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016
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Jan Vilček
Jan Vilček
Department of Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016
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Jerome Vanderberg
Jerome Vanderberg
Department of Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016
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We have studied the effect of three interferon inducers (Newcastle disease virus [NDV], statolon [S], and the complex of polyriboinosinic and polyribocytidylic acids [rI:rC]) on the course of malaria in mice inoculated with sporozoites or with erythrocytic forms of Plasmodium berghei. The number of parasitized cells per 10,000 erythrocytes was counted daily. Serum interferon was titrated in L-cell cultures. Parasitemia was prevented or its onset was delayed in mice treated with each inducer. Protection was greatest (survival and prevention of parasitemia) when NDV or S was given 16 to 24 hours after sporozoite inoculation. It was least (slight delay in onset of detectable parasitemia) when NDV or S was given before or after inoculation with erythrocytic forms. Mice were injected, 20 hours after inoculation of sporozoites, with diluted NDV or S, with heated S or with the supernatant of NDV-infected allantoic fluid after centrifugation at 100,000 × G. These procedures reduced both the serum-interferon-inducing and the protective effects of NDV or S. These results extend the spectrum of action of interferon inducers to a protozoon, P. berghei; they demonstrate a protective effect of interferon inducers against murine malaria; and they suggest that protection is mediated by interferons. They also show that sensitivity to the protective effect of interferon inducers varies during the development of P. berghei in the mouse.
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Holder of U. S. Public Health Service Career Development Award IK4A138,784.
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