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  • Title: The immune response of the lactating rat to Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.
    Author: Connan RM.
    Journal: Immunology; 1973 Aug; 25(2):261-7. PubMed ID: 4739068.
    Abstract:
    It has previously been shown that rats do not expel a primary infection of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis during lactation. In the present paper, three aspects of the immune response of the lactating rat to the parasite were examined and compared with the response of non-lactating rats. Protective and reaginic antibodies were present in the circulation of rats first infected during lactation, in titres as high or higher than those in non-lactating controls. The intestinal mast cell response was similar both in timing and magnitude and lactating rats became susceptible to shock with the i.v. injection of antigen. Attention was drawn to the similarity between the response of the lactating rat and that of the neonate to this infection.
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