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Expression of cell surface adhesion molecules by peripheral blood eosinophils during Trichostrongylus colubriformis infection in sheep.

The effect of infection of sheep with the gastrointestinal nematode parasite Trichostrongylus colubriformis on expression of adhesion molecules CD11a, CD11b, CD11c, CD18, CD44, CD49d and CD62L by peripheral blood eosinophils was examined by flow cytometry. Initially, to establish the sensitivity of adhesion molecules to inflammatory signals, eosinophil-rich exudates were elicited in non-lactating mammary glands of immune sheep by infusion of 50 microg of soluble antigen extract from T. colubriformis third stage larvae. Eosinophils comprised 40.8% of mammary leucocytes and 4.5% of peripheral blood leucocytes. In comparison with blood, the percentage of eosinophils expressing CD18 increased and the percentage expressing CD62L decreased in exudates and the mean fluorescent intensity, an indicator of receptor number per cell, for CD11a and CD49d also decreased on exudate eosinophils. Peripheral blood eosinophils were examined over 8 weeks during trickle infection of immune sheep with infective or irradiated third stage larvae of T. colubriformis. During the last 3 weeks of infection, CD11a staining decreased in infected sheep and CD44 staining decreased in sheep receiving either infective or irradiated larvae. Other surface markers did not change. The results indicate that systemic changes in expression of adhesion molecules by eosinophils occur during T. colubriformis infection in sheep.[1]

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