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Impaired T lymphocyte immune response in vitamin A depleted rats and chicks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Aharon Friedman  and
David Sklan
Aharon Friedman
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
David Sklan
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Abstract

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Vitamin A deficiency results in decreased immune responses; the objective of the present study was to investigate the involvement of T lymphocytes in the depression of immune responses resulting from vitamin A depletion. This objective was achieved by evaluating antigen-specific T lymphocyte proliferative responses in vitro as vitamin A depletion developed. The evaluation was performed in both rat and chick to examine the generality of immune effects due to vitamin A depletion. Our findings show that vitamin A depletion led to severe impairment of T lymphocyte activity in both animal models, and that this was directly related to the vitamin A status in both species. Immune response impairment was found to precede other manifestations of vitamin A deficiency, and was rapidly corrected by feeding retinyl acetate boluses. This implied a possible regulatory, rather than constitutive, role of vitamin A in immune responsiveness.

Keywords

Immune responseRatChickT lymphocytesRetinol
Type
Lipids
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , September 1989 , pp. 439 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1989

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