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. 1973 Jul;8(1):105–109. doi: 10.1128/iai.8.1.105-109.1973

Altered Immune Functions in Hypercholesterolemic Monkeys

R H Fiser Jr a,1, J C Denniston a,2, V G McGann a, J Kaplan a,3, W H Adler III a,4, M D Kastello a, W R Beisel a,5
PMCID: PMC422817  PMID: 4198100

Abstract

Humoral and cellular immune responses to several antigens were compared in control and hypercholesterolemic groups of monkeys. Chronic hypercholesterolemia, with concomitant hyperphospholipidemia and hypotriglyceridemia, was produced experimentally by feeding monkeys a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet. When studied prior to infection, hypercholesterolemic monkeys exhibited impaired development of precipitating antibodies against ovalbumin, enhanced sensitivity to tuberculin antigen (stimulated apparently by mycobacterial components in complete Freund adjuvant), and an increased rate of clearance of colloidal carbon from blood. During pneumococcal infection the ability of neutrophiles from hypercholesterolemic monkeys to reduce nitroblue tetrazolium dye showed an increase greater than that of control monkeys; both groups exhibited increased but comparable final clearance rates of colloidal carbon, although the increment of increase was smaller in hypercholesterolemic monkeys.

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