Protection Against Toxoplasmosis in Swiss Albino Mice Immunized with Attenuated Toxoplasma Gondi | ||
| Kirkuk Journal of Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2012, Pages 34-49 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.32894/kujss.2012.44583 | ||
| Author | ||
| Nafal J. S. AL-Barwary | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study aimed at investigation on developing the immune response against Toxoplasmosis in Swiss Albino mice of the species Mus musculus, BALB/c strain, which were infected, experimentally, with Toxoplasma gondii in order to render the host able to resist any infection with this disease in the future. To achieve this, Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts, collected from placenta of aborted women, they attenuated by irradiation with two absorbed doses of X-Ray irradiation 0.4 and 0.8 KGy. Mice were injected, intraperitoneally with tissue cysts at a rate of 100 cysts/mice single or double doses. In addition, groups of mice were injected with non-irradiated tissue cysts, as a positive control groups. The criteria used in the present study was humoral immunity, represented by IgM using Enzyme–Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA IgM) to demonstrate the differentiated in IgM level between mice inoculated with X-Ray irradiated tissue cysts and positive control groups, which infected with non-irradiated tissue cysts. The result shown that the immunization with X-Ray irradiated Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts could partially protect the mice from Toxoplasma gondii infection, and produce specific IgM antibody. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| protection; Against; toxoplasmosis; Swiss Albino Mice; Immunized; Attenuated; Toxoplasma Gondi; oxoplasma Gondii | ||
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