Casual influence of the stimulation of macrophage production by proteose-peptone, in the experimental infection of mice by Plasmodium berghei
Arantes, S.C.; Braz, L.M.; Amato Neto, V.
Revista do Hospital das Clinicas 49(6): 243-245
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-8781 PMID: 7610336 Document Number: 437167
Proteose-peptone is a known powerful stimulator of macrophages. This stimulation was studied in an experimental malaria infection model, using Plasmodium berghei in mice. Parasitemia and mortality did not change in stimulated animals, and macrophage mobilization, contrary to other published papers, was not effective to increase either parasite levels in the blood or mortality.