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Chronic Salmonella Infected Mouse Model
Published on: May 31, 2010
[The effect of salmonella infection on the functional activity of the polymorphonuclear leukocytes]
Abstract:
Experiments on noninbred white mice have revealed that in the animals infected with S. moscow secondary immunodeficiency develops, which is manifested by a significant decrease in the activity of the bactericidal system of peripheral blood granular leukocytes. Simultaneously, the content of myeloperoxidase in the blood neutrophils of infected mice decreases 1.4 times and the content of lysozyme in these neutrophils decreases 2 times. Such changes are the consequence of an increase in the secretory activity of cells, occurring in the process of the development of Salmonella infection.
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