As assessed by flow cytometry, human gamma delta T cells were shown here to inhibit replication of blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum in vitro in a dose-dependent fashion; no other leukocyte population tested was suppressive. Replication of intraerythrocytic stages of the parasite (rings, trophozoites, and schizonts) was not affected by coculture with gamma delta T cells nor were erythrocytes damaged by this coculture, indicating that the targets recognized by gamma delta T cells are extracellular merozoites in transit to new host erythrocytes. Moreover, parasite inhibition requires contact between gamma delta T cells and merozoites. These findings suggest that gamma delta T cells may exert a protective effect in immunity to malaria.
Inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum in vitro by human gamma delta T cells.
M. Elloso,H. Heyde,J. A. Waa,David D. Manning,W. Weidanz
Published 1994 in Journal of Immunology
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1994
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Journal of Immunology
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1994-08-01
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Biology, Medicine
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