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- Title
Lack of a Functioning P2X7 Receptor Leads to Increased Susceptibility to Toxoplasmic Ileitis.
- Authors
Miller, Catherine M.; Zakrzewski, Alana M.; Robinson, Dionne P.; Fuller, Stephen J.; Walker, Robert A.; Ikin, Rowan J.; Bao, Shisan J.; Grigg, Michael E.; Wiley, James S.; Smith, Nicholas C.
- Abstract
Background: Oral infection of C57BL/6J mice with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii leads to a lethal inflammatory ileitis. Principal Findings: Mice lacking the purinergic receptor P2X7R are acutely susceptible to toxoplasmic ileitis, losing significantly more weight than C57BL/6J mice and exhibiting much greater intestinal inflammatory pathology in response to infection with only 10 cysts of T. gondii. This susceptibility is not dependent on the ability of P2X7R-deficient mice to control the parasite, which they accomplish just as efficiently as C57BL/6J mice. Rather, susceptibility is associated with elevated ileal concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines, reactive nitrogen intermediates and altered regulation of elements of NFκB activation in P2X7R-deficient mice. Conclusions: Our data support the thesis that P2X7R, a well-documented activator of pro-inflammatory cytokine production, also plays an important role in the regulation of intestinal inflammation.
- Subjects
OCULAR toxoplasmosis; LABORATORY mice; INFLAMMATION; DISEASE susceptibility; CYTOKINES
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0129048