Affiliation:
1. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Abstract
Alterations in hematopoiesis are common in experimental infectious disease. However, few studies have addressed the mechanisms underlying changes in hematopoietic function or assessed the direct impact of infectious agents on the cells that regulate these processes. In experimental visceral leishmaniasis, caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani, parasites persist in the spleen and bone marrow, and their expansion in these sites is associated with increases in local hematopoietic activity. The results of this study show that L donovani targets bone marrow stromal macrophages in vivo and can infect and multiply in stromal cell lines of macrophage, but not other lineages in vitro. Infection of stromal macrophages increases their capacity to support myelopoiesis in vitro, an effect mediated mainly through the induction of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor and tumor necrosis factor-. These data are the first to directly demonstrate that intracellular parasitism of a stromal cell population may modify its capacity to regulate hematopoiesis during infectious disease.
Publisher
American Society of Hematology
Subject
Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry
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