作者: D. I. Pritchard , R. P. Eady , S. T. Harper , S. Trigg , I. M. Richards
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关键词: Antibody 、 Mast cell 、 Antigen 、 Immunoglobulin E 、 Ascaris 、 Immunology 、 Ascaris suum 、 Histamine 、 Biology 、 Eosinophilia
摘要: Wild-caught non-human primates are naturally sensitive to Ascaris antigen and provide a useful model for studying atopic asthma. The present study was carried out determine the effect of experimentally infecting home-bred macaques with nematode suum hence an alternative occurring model. Following oral infection parasite animals developed blood eosinophilia specific antibodies purified antigen. These appeared be IgE class as they could detected by radiometric assay using radiolabelled antibody human IgE. However, on further investigation, passive cutaneous anaphylaxis test, two classes were found, heat labile (56 degrees C) stable antibody. Lung lavage cells taken from monkeys infected shown include morphologically characteristic mast released histamine when challenged in vitro Hence this immediate hypersensitivity provides simple less accessible natural