TY - JOUR T1 - In situ Analysis of CD4, CD8 and Mast Cells in Lung of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Experimentally Infected Pigs AU - , Tonatiuh Alejandro Cruz Sanchez AU - , Socorro Sandra Martinez Robles AU - , German Garrido Farina AU - , Jorge Tortora Perez AU - , Susana Mendoza Elvira AU - , Abel Ciprian Carrasco AU - , Eliseo Hernandez Baumgharten AU - , Andres Romero Rojas AU - , Marco Antonio Vega-Lopez JO - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances VL - 7 IS - 6 SP - 752 EP - 758 PY - 2008 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1680-5593 DO - javaa.2008.752.758 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2008.752.758 KW - Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae KW -Immune response KW -CD4 KW -CD8 KW -Mast cell KW -swine lung AB - Mast cells (MC) and CD4+ and CD8+ cell subpopulations, from the apical border of the right cranial lobe of lungs of pigs experimentally infected with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, were histologically (MC) and immunohistochemically (CD4 and CD8) analyzed during the first 20 days post infection (PI). Twelve weaned, four-week-old healthy pigs were endotracheally inoculated with a lung homogenate infected with M. hyopneumoniae, strain 194 and 6 control animals were inoculated with Friis medium only. A control animal and two infected animals were euthanized at days 0, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20 PI. M. hyopneumoniae induced an early increase of CD4 cells at day 4 PI (p<0.001) and at day 8 PI there was a significant and coincident increase in all three cell populations (p<0.001), which intermittently persisted until day 20 (CD8 p<0.001, MC p<0.001). The results of this work suggest that infection with M. hyopneumoniae induces an early response of CD4+ cells, followed by an infiltration of CD8+ cells and MCs, possibly related to the pathophysiological events of the disease, since, despite the evident immune infiltration, the infection continued its course. ER -