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. 1973 Mar;24(3):531–543.

The cellular responses of the rat to an intraperitoneal inoculation of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis larvae

Z Greenberg, Guta Wertheim
PMCID: PMC1422959  PMID: 4705618

Abstract

The cellular responses to intraperitoneal inoculation of infective (L3) or non-infective (L2) larvae of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis were studied in unprimed rats. Peritoneal macrophages adhered to the larvae immediately after inoculation and the coated larvae became attached to the omentum. As additional inflammatory cells, appearing in the peritoneal exudate, adhered to the larvae, nodules were formed which with time organized into granulomas.

The initial response was not specific and consisted of an intense neutrophilia which developed in all rats a few hours after inoculation and lasted 24 hours. Thereafter the cellular responses were distinctly different in the case of each larval stage. In rats receiving L3 larvae an intense eosinophilia in the peritoneal exudate began to develop 7 days after inoculation, and islands of numerous pyroninophilic blast- and plasma cells were present at the periphery of the granuloma. The L3 larvae survived in the granulomas for 7–10 days.

The granulomas formed around the L2 larvae consisted mainly of macrophages; the number of eosinophils did not rise above normal and there were no pyroninophilic cells. The L2 larvae survived in the granuloma for 3 days. In control rats, in which an intestinal infection was established by subcutaneous administration of larvae, no changes were detected in the cellular composition of the peritoneal exudate.

The significance of these responses is discussed in relation to recent reports about the cellular composition of antigenic and non-antigenic granulomas.

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