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. 1986 Jun;52(3):637–643. doi: 10.1128/iai.52.3.637-643.1986

T-cell immunity in murine malaria: adoptive transfer of resistance to Plasmodium chabaudi adami in nude mice with splenic T cells.

L A Cavacini, C A Long, W P Weidanz
PMCID: PMC260904  PMID: 3086229

Abstract

Acute infections caused by the murine malarial parasite Plasmodium chabaudi adami are resolved by antibody-independent mechanisms of immunity. The fact that athymic nude mice developed high-grade unrelenting malaria and died when infected with this parasite suggested a significant role for T lymphocytes. Using adoptive transfer techniques, we demonstrated that spleen cells from either nonimmune or immune donor BALB/c mice eventually suppressed P. chabaudi adami infections in histocompatible recipient nude mice in a dose-dependent manner. Infections in recipients of "immune" spleen cells were less severe, demonstrating a depressed peak parasitemia and a shortened duration of patent infection, than was observed in recipients of normal spleen cells. Also, when sufficient numbers of immune spleen cells were transferred, the second wave of parasitemia (characteristic of this infection in nonimmune mice) failed to occur. T lymphocytes mediated protection in recipient mice, since T-cell-enriched, but not B-cell-enriched, spleen cell fractions suppressed P. chabaudi adami infections in nude mice. Protection was best achieved with T cells that bore the L3T4 phenotype. Patent parasitemias developed in all recipient mice, suggesting that the grafted cells did not limit parasite growth directly but achieved this end by activating other as yet unidentified inhibiting cell systems.

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