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  • Title: Gamma delta T cells function in cell-mediated immunity to acute blood-stage Plasmodium chabaudi adami malaria.
    Author: van der Heyde HC, Elloso MM, Chang WL, Kaplan M, Manning DD, Weidanz WP.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1995 Apr 15; 154(8):3985-90. PubMed ID: 7706737.
    Abstract:
    To determine whether gamma delta T cells are essential for the resolution of acute Plasmodium chabaudi adami (P. c. adami) malaria, we depleted gamma delta T cells from C57BL/6 mice with hamster monoclonal anti-TCR gamma delta Ab treatment. During the period in which control mice that had received normal hamster IgG completely resolved infections, gamma delta T cell-depleted mice were unable to suppress their infections. Because the number of splenic CD4+ alpha beta T cells in these anti-TCR-gamma delta-treated mice with nonresolving malaria was similar to control mice, it appears that CD4+ alpha beta T cells alone cannot mediate early resolution even though they are known to play a critical role in immunity to blood-stage malaria. Mice treated with anti-CD4 mAb also failed to resolve P. c. adami malaria. Depletion of CD4+ alpha beta T cells from the spleens of infected mice resulted in minimal expansion of the splenic CD4- gamma delta T cell subset compared with infected control mice. Together, these findings indicate that activation of the gamma delta T cell subset, which requires the presence of CD4+ alpha beta T cells, is essential for resolution of acute P. c. adami malaria. To determine whether gamma delta T cells require either Abs or B cells to achieve their protective activity, B cell-deficient JHD mice were treated with the same depleting anti-TCR-gamma delta Abs. Whereas control JHD mice injected with hamster IgG resolved acute P. c. adami malaria, JHD mice depleted of gamma delta T cells failed to do so. We conclude that gamma delta T cells suppress P. c. adami parasitemia by mechanisms of immunity independent of Ab and B cells.
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