is a wide-spectrum disease caused by parasites from genus. A well-modulated immune response that is established after the long-lasting clinical cure of leishmaniasis can represent a standard requirement for a vaccine. Previous studies demonstrated that causes benign disease and its antigens induce well-modulated immune responses in vitro.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe golden hamster is a suitable model for studying cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) due to () Immunopathological mechanisms are well established in the -mouse model, in which IL-4 instructs a Th2 response towards progressive infection. In the present study, we evaluated the natural history of infection from its first stages up to lesion establishment, with the aim of identifying immunological parameters associated with the disease outcome and parasitism fate. To this end, hamsters infected with 10, 10, or 10 promastigotes were monitored during the first hours (4h, 24h), early (15 days, 30 days) and late (50 days) post-infection (pi) phases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeishmania (Viannia) braziliensis is one of the main etiological agents of tegumentary leishmaniasis in Latin America. The establishment of a successful infection in host cells requires several key events including phagocytosis, phagolysosomal maturation impairment, and parasite replication. Autophagy is accountable for the physiological turnover of cellular organelles, degradation of macromolecular structures, and pathogen elimination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParasit Vectors
June 2016
Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected disease with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from small cutaneous nodules to severe mucosal tissue destruction. Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis is the main species attributed to CL in the Americas. However, studies of experimental infection are limited in the murine model due to the self-resolutive pattern of the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS Negl Trop Dis
January 2015
Background: Previous results have shown that oral and intranasal administration of particulate Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis antigens (LaAg) partially protects mice against L. amazonensis infection. However, vaccination studies on species of the subgenus Viannia, the main causative agent of cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis in the Americas, have been hampered by the lack of easy-to-handle bio-models that accurately mimic the human disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfect Immun
December 2014
The golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is a susceptible model to Leishmania (Viannia) spp.; however, available studies employ different infection protocols, which account for clinical and pathological presentation differences. Herein, L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this work was to verify if hydrophilic gels containing benzophenone-3 loaded nanocapsules (HG-NCBZ3) could improve the sunscreen in vitro effectiveness against UVA radiation and its photostability compared to a conventional hydrogel containing the free sunscreen (HG-BZ3). In parallel, the immune response of the nanostructured system was evaluated by mouse ear swelling test and the local lymph node assay. The nanocapsules were prepared by interfacial deposition of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) and characterized in terms of particle size, polydispersity index, zeta potential, drug content and encapsulation efficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe previously showed that intranasal (i.n.) vaccination with pCIneo plasmid encoding the leishmanial LACK gene (pCIneo-LACK) induces long-lasting protective immunity against cutaneous leishmaniasis in mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe previously showed the opposing effect of systemic and mucosal vaccination with whole Leishmania amazonensis antigen (LaAg). Here, the role played by lipophosphoglycan (LPG) as the key disease-promoting component of intramuscular (i.m.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study we determined whether exposing mice to hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) would alter various disease parameters of a susceptible mouse strain infected with Leishmania amazonensis. BALB/c mice exposed to HBO (100% O2 at a pressure of 2.5 ATA, 1h before parasite inoculation and subsequently for 20 days) showed significant delay in lesion development and reduction in lesion parasite burdens compared with HBO-unexposed mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeishmania amazonensis and Leishmania braziliensis are the main causal agents of anergic diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis and hyperergic mucosal leishmaniasis in man, respectively. In this work we demonstrate that intramuscular vaccination of BALB/c mice with whole antigens of L. amazonensis (LaAg) but not L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe have previously demonstrated that oral delivery of a disease-promoting particulated antigen of Leishmania amazonensis (LaAg) partially protects mice against cutaneous leishmaniasis. In the present work, we sought to optimize a mucosal vaccine by using the intranasal route for delivery of different antigen preparations, including (i) LaAg, (ii) soluble recombinant p36/LACK leishmanial antigen (LACK), and (iii) plasmid DNA encoding LACK (LACK DNA). BALB/c mice that received two intranasal doses of 10 microg of LaAg and were challenged 1 week postvaccination with L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe induction of oral tolerance against disease-inducing antigens has emerged as a feasible strategy to prevent immunopathologies. In this study, we investigated the effect of oral immunization with whole antigens of Leishmania amazonensis promastigotes (LaAg) on murine cutaneous leishmaniasis. We found that two oral doses with 100 microg LaAg rendered BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice more resistant against subsequent infection with L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF