Mukhopadhyay, S. ; Ravindran, B. (1997) Antibodies to diethylcarbamazine potentiate the antifilarial activity of the drug Parasite Immunology, 19 (4). pp. 191-195. ISSN 0141-9838
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Abstract
The antifilarial drug Diethylcarbamazine Citrate (DEC) is known to mediate in vivo microfilaricidal activity in conjunction with the host immune system. In this study passive transfer of antibodies to DEC elicited by immunization with Methyl Piperazine Carboxylic Acid (MPCA) coupled to Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) was found to potentiate microfilaricidal activity of subcurative doses of DEC in Setaria digitata infected Mastomys coucha. Active immunization of microfilaraemic animals with MPCA-BSA followed by administration of subcurative doses of DEC also resulted in rapid clearance of microfilaraemia in both S. digitata and Brugia malayi infected M. coucha indicating the synergistic activity of DEC and the antibodies to the drug. Since some of the filarial antibodies are known to react with DEC, it is proposed that such antibodies may potentiate the microfilaricidal activity of the drug in vivo.
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