Publication Date:
2011-08-20
Description:
Immune clearance and resource limitation (via red blood cell depletion) shape the peaks and troughs of malaria parasitemia, which in turn affect disease severity and transmission. Quantitatively partitioning the relative roles of these effects through time is challenging. Using data from rodent malaria, we estimated the effective propagation number, which reflects the relative importance of contrasting within-host control mechanisms through time and is sensitive to the inoculating parasite dose. Our analysis showed that the capacity of innate responses to restrict initial parasite growth saturates with parasite dose and that experimentally enhanced innate immunity can affect parasite density indirectly via resource depletion. Such a statistical approach offers a tool to improve targeting of drugs or vaccines for human therapy by revealing the dynamics and interactions of within-host regulatory mechanisms.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891600/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891600/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Metcalf, C J E -- Graham, A L -- Huijben, S -- Barclay, V C -- Long, G H -- Grenfell, B T -- Read, A F -- Bjornstad, O N -- R01 GM089932/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM089932/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R24 HD047879/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):984-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1204588.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. charlotte.metcalf@zoo.ox.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21852493" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptive Immunity
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Animals
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Antibodies/immunology
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CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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Erythrocyte Aging
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Erythrocyte Count
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Erythrocytes/*parasitology/physiology
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Host-Parasite Interactions
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Humans
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Immunity, Innate
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Interleukin-10/immunology/metabolism
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Malaria/blood/*immunology/*parasitology
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Mice
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Models, Biological
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Models, Statistical
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*Parasitemia/blood/immunology/parasitology
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Plasmodium chabaudi/immunology/*physiology
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Receptors, Interleukin-10/immunology
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Regression Analysis
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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