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D B Adams1, B H Anderson, J J Lynch
1CSIRO Division of Animal Health, Pastoral Research Laboratory, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Abstract:
One of two groups of sheep was immunosuppressed with the glucocorticoid, dexamethasone, at the time of the first but not of the second of two booster vaccinations with tetanus toxoid given at an interval of 28 days. Treatment with dexamethasone decisively reduced the anti-tetanus antibody response to the first booster vaccination and affected both IgM and IgG1 antibody. However, antibody titres increased after the second booster vaccination in the treated sheep and were similar in size to those in the untreated sheep which rose in stepwise fashion after each booster vaccination. The differences in response imply that processes involved in displaying an anamnestic response and recalling previously established memory are sensitive to glucocorticoids. Accordingly, they can be separated from the glucocorticoid-resistant processes that lead to the expansion of immunological memory following multiple exposures to an antigen.
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