Schistosoma mansoni: host cell adhesion to the different stages of the parasite, in vivo

Authors

  • Alan L. Melo UFMG; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Departamento de Parasitologia
  • Leógenes H. Pereira UFMG; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Departamento de Parasitologia
  • Conceição R. S. Machado UFMG; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Departamento de Morfologia

Keywords:

Schistosoma mansoni, Cell adhesion, Peritoneal cavity

Abstract

The peritoneal cavity of laboratory mice was used to study the phenomenon of host cell adhesion to different evolutive stages of the Schistosoma mansoni (cercaria, adult worm, developing and mature eggs, miracidium, young and mature daughter sporocysts). Material recovered from the peritoneal cavity 30 and 180 min after the inoculation of each evolutive form was examined with the help of a stereomicroscope. The free swimming larvae (cercaria and miracidium), and the evolutive forms producing such larvae (mature egg and mature daughter sporocyst) elicited the host cell adhesion phenomenon. In all forms but cercariae the adherent cells remained as so till 180 minutes after inoculation

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Published

1992-06-01

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 3 (1992)

Section

Original Article

How to Cite

Melo, A. L., Pereira, L. H., & Machado, C. R. S. (1992). Schistosoma mansoni: host cell adhesion to the different stages of the parasite, in vivo . Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo, 34(3), 205-209. https://revistas.usp.br/rimtsp/article/view/28920