Circulating levels of sTNFR and discrepancy between cytotoxicity and immunoreactivity of TNF-alpha in patients with visceral leishmaniasis

Date
2000-01-01Author
Medeiros, Iara Marques de [UNIFESP]
Reed, S.
Castelo Filho, Adauto [UNIFESP]
Salomão, Reinaldo [UNIFESP]
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ArtigoISSN
1198-743XIs part of
Clinical Microbiology and InfectionDOI
10.1046/j.1469-0691.2000.00011.xMetadata
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Objective To study the influence of soluble tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptors (sTNFR) on bioactivity; and immunoreactivity of TNF-alpha in patients with visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) and to examine the association between circulating levels of sTNFR type I and type IT with clinical manifestations of the disease.Methods Ten patients with Kala-azar were enrolled. Plasma samples for TNF-alpha and sTNFR were obtained on days 0, 7 and 21-28 of antimonial therapy. Bioactivity of TNF-alpha was measured by cytotoxicity to L-929 cells and immunoreactivity by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). sTNFR-I and sTNFR-II were measured by ELISA.Results Measured by ELISA, TNF-alpha was detected at baseline in all patients (range from 22.3 to 163 pg/mL) and showed a linear decline over time on therapy (r = -0.49, P = 0.007). in contrast, when measured by cytotoxicity assay, TNF-alpha was detected in only one patient at baseline (193 pg/mL) and in four patients at the end of therapy (38.7, 95, 133 and 232 pg/mL) and there was no linear association between TNF-alpha. and duration of therapy (r = -0.18, P = 0.45). sTNFR-I and sTNFR-II were detected in all patients before therapy. There was a strong positive correlation between plasma concentrations of sTNFR-I and sTNFR-II (r = 0.8, P = 0.006). Levels of sTNFR-I and sTNFR-II declined exponentially with time on therapyConclusions We concluded that sTNFR-I and sTNFR-II are related to disease activity in patients with Kala-azar and that these circulating receptors may interfere with the biological activity of TNF-alpha in patients with Kala-azar.
Citation
Clinical Microbiology and Infection. Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd, v. 6, n. 1, p. 34-37, 2000.Keywords
visceral leishmaniasistumour necrosis factor
soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor
sTNFR
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