J Vet Sci.
2004 Mar;5(1):29-39.
Characterization of lymphocyte subpopulations and major histocompatibility complex haplotypes of mastitis-resistant and susceptible cows
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- 1Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
- 2Department of Bacteriology and Parasitology, National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang 430-824, Korea.
- 3Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-7040, USA. cdavies@vetmed.wsu.edu
Abstract
- Bovine mastitis is an infectious disease with a major economic influence on the dairy industry worldwide. Many factors such as environment, pathogen, and host affect susceptibility or resistance of an individual cow to bovine mastitis. Recently, there has been considerable interest in defining genetic and immunological markers that could be used to select for improved disease resistance. In this study we have analyzed the lymphocyte subpopulations of mastitis-resistant and susceptible cows using monoclonal antibodies specific for bovine leukocyte differentiation antigens and flow cytometry. We have also used a microarray typing technique to define the bovine leukocyte antigen (BoLA) class I and class II haplotypes associated with resistance or susceptibility to bovine mastitis. A striking finding of the present study is that susceptibility to mastitis was associated with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes that have only a single set of DQ genes. The study also revealed that susceptible cows had CD4:CD8 ratios of less than one in both their mammary gland secretions and peripheral blood. These results raise the possibility that the number of DQ genes that a cow has and/or a cow's CD4:CD8 ratio could be used as indicators of susceptibility to bovine mastitis.
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Alleles
Animals
Antigens, Differentiation/immunology
Cattle
Cell Count/veterinary
Female
Flow Cytometry/veterinary
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Histocompatibility Antigens/genetics/immunology
Korea
Leukocytes, Mononuclear/cytology/*immunology/microbiology
Lymphocyte Subsets/*immunology/microbiology
Mastitis, Bovine/genetics/*immunology/microbiology
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis/veterinary
Statistics, Nonparametric
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