日本血吸虫尾蚴钻穿宿主皮肤的方式

本文报道了日本血吸虫尾蚴钻穿宿主皮肤的全过程和早期童虫在8种动物皮肤中动态分布的结果。阐明了血吸虫尾蚴钻穿宿主皮肤是依靠其体内头腺及/或钻腺分泌物的酶促作用、头器伸缩的探查作用及全身肌肉运动的机械作用而协同完成的。指出了尾蚴入侵皮肤界面和童虫在皮肤内移行常以倾斜角度前进,并非完全呈垂直方向或沿毛囊皮脂腺的通道。观察到童虫钻破皮肤血管壁进入血管腔的情景,这有力地提供了血吸虫童虫从皮肤进入血液循环系统的直接证据。     

日本血吸虫童虫体表超微结构动态观察

本文报告日本血吸虫皮肤型、肺型、肝门型童虫的体被用扫描电镜观察其超微结构的变化,其目的在于寻求日本血吸虫童虫的体被在实验动物体内变化的规律,提供血吸虫病在免疫学上和预防化学药物上的研究参考。其图版Ⅰ—Ⅲ的1—4为日本血吸虫尾蚴,5—7为0.5小时龄皮肤型童虫,8—13为10日龄肺型童虫,14—22为15日龄肝门型雄性童虫。     

日本血吸虫童虫体表超微结构动态观察

本文报告日本血吸虫皮肤型、肺型、肝门型童虫的体被用扫描电镜观察其超微结构的变化,其目的在于寻求日本血吸虫童虫的体被在实验动物体内变化的规律,提供血吸虫病在免疫学上和预防化学药物上的研究参考。其图版Ⅰ—Ⅲ的1—4为日本血吸虫尾蚴,5—7为0．5小时龄皮肤型童虫,8—13为10日龄肺型童虫,14—22为15日龄肝门型雄性童虫。     

日本血吸虫尾蚴及童虫的生理学比较

本文介绍了经0.05％中性红-氢氧化钾染色确定为活的血吸虫尾蚴和童虫的生理学比较结果。与尾蚴相比,童虫体表对PAS及Alcian蓝阳性反应消失,与抗血清接触不再产生套膜反应;对水不能耐受,在淡水中6小时内已全部死亡,而在生理盐水中仍有92.7％存活;钻腺内含物排空,童虫不能再经皮肤感染,但越过皮肤屏障若被注入皮下或腹腔则分别有45.4—46.5％及56.9—64.9％发育为成虫。     

日本血吸虫尾蚴人工方法转变的童虫超微结构的观察

本文报道日本血吸虫尾蚴经注射器推压和血清孵育两种人工方法转变的童虫与载体皮肤型童虫的透射及扫描电镜的观察结果。描述了三种童虫在转变后3小时至12小时其糖膜、外质膜、体被内包含体及腺体的超微结构的变化。     

日本血吸虫童虫在终宿主体内的生长发育

本文对日本血吸虫童虫从终宿主的皮肤至肝门脉系移行过程的生长发育特点进行观察和分析,发现皮肤、肺、秆门三型童虫的体形、体长、体积、面积,发育率及生长速度均呈动态变化,而且这些变化与其生理功能是相适应的,因而为童虫体外培养、血吸虫病的免疫和药物预防研究提供材料来源和评价标准。     

吡喹酮涂肤剂预防及治疗小鼠血吸虫病的研究

本文报道了用不同剂型、不同浓度的吡喹酮涂肤剂预防及治疗小鼠日本血吸虫病的实验研究。作者选用乙醇、聚乙二醇４００和霜剂,将吡喹酮原剂放入其内使成１‰和２％浓度的吡喹酮涂肤剂。药物涂在鼠的腹部皮肤上。预防组在用药后１－６ｈ,洗净药物,感染血吸虫尾蚴６０±２条,感染后４２ｄ解剖小鼠,结果显示１‰吡喹酮乙醇液,聚乙二醇４００溶液和霜剂均有很好的预防效果,防护率为１００００％。治疗组用２％吡喹酮霜剂１次／ｄ,连续３－５ｄ,在用药后的１－４ｄ及４周,解剖小鼠,结果显示：对２１ｄ的血吸虫童虫的减虫率为４５４６％,对４２ｄ的血吸虫成虫的减虫率为７４６７％,提示２％吡喹酮涂肤剂抗日本血吸虫成虫的作用优于抗童虫的作用。     

日本血吸虫发育的生理学研究

有关日本血吸虫在终末寄主体内的发育生理,知道的很少。唐仲璋等(1973)对其在终末寄主体内的迁移途径作了精细的实验研究,确定了童虫的肺—肝移行的正常途径。了解和掌握日本血吸虫在终末寄主体内生长和发育过程中的生理活动规律特点,不仅对开展血吸虫病的药物预防和免疫预防工作是必不可少的,而且作为评价血吸虫离体培养的发育程度也是所必需的。本文报告日本血吸虫尾蚴侵入寄主皮肤后的移行、定居、生长和     

血吸虫生殖生理的研究进展

血吸虫体外培养研究工作经过了半个世纪的努力,取得了很大的进展,其中较突出的有 Clegg[1]从童虫培养至成虫; Basch[2]使尾蚴人工转变童虫后继续体外培养达到童虫发育,雌雄合抱,雌虫产卵,但卵为异常卵.目前为止,无论在曼氏或日本血吸虫均在体外培养成功,但两种血吸虫所产的卵均为异常卵,而血吸虫的生殖生理研究是寻找血吸虫体外培养不育的关键.     

日本血吸虫尾蚴经人工方法转变的童虫体外培养的研究

本文介绍了日本血吸虫体外培养系统。建立了较适于童虫生长发育的B41培养基。尾蚴经人工方法转变的童虫在体外可发育至雌雄合抱,雌雄生殖器官形成。雌虫可达产卵阶段,但未具备正常的产卵机能。培养的血吸虫在体外至少可存活110天。     

Schistosoma mansoni: Activation of the alternative pathway of human complement by schistosomula

Schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni newly transformed from cercariae by either the mechanical or skin penetration procedures, as well as 5-day-old schistosomula recovered from the lungs of mice, were tested for their ability to activate the human alternative complement pathway. Newly transformed larvae prepared by both methods, although less active than cercariae, were found to activate the pathway to a comparable degree as judged by the consumption of fluid phase C3 and factor B and the conversion of native C3 into a component with a more anodal electrophoretic mobility. The alternative pathway activating capacity could not be blocked or enhanced by pretreating the larvae with purified IgG or F(ab′)₂ fragments prepared from human sera containing antibodies directed against schistosomula. In contrast to newly transformed parasites, 5-day-old schistosomula recovered from mouse lungs failed to activate the alternative pathway as judged by either the C3 or B consumption assays or the C3 conversion assay. This developmental change could not be reversed by treating lung stage larvae with neuraminidase and heparinase, enzymes which are known to alter the activating capacity of other particulate substances or with chondroitinase ABC or trypsin.     

A comparative study of the death of schistosomula of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni in the skin of mice and hamsters.

This study shows that some cercariae of S. haematobium and S. mansoni die during penetration of mouse or hamster skin. Approximately 30-38% of cercariae of both species die in mouse skin and 14-16% die in hamster skin. The greater number of cercariae which die in the skin of mice seems to account for the higher yield of adult worms recovered in hamsters. Adult worm recoveries from animals infected with S. haematobium were, however, only about half the worm recoveries from hosts infected with S. mansoni.     

A study of the death of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae during penetration of mammalian host skin: The influence of the ages of the cercariae and of the host

A study of the death of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae during penetration of mammalian host skin: the influence of the ages of the cercariae and of the host. International Journal for Parasitology 3: 789–794. The number of cercariae of S. mansoni which die during penetration of mouse abdominal skin steadily increases with age following emergence from the snail. An initial mortality level of about 30 per cent is observed for 2-h-old cercariae which rises to 50 per cent at 8 h and 85 per cent at 24 h. These increased losses in the skin are shown to account substantially for the known decrease in infectivity which accompanies ageing of cercariae. The number of cercariae which die in the skin of very young mice (2 days old) is less than one-third of the level in adult mice. Losses in the skin increase with age of the host up to about 28–35 days. This increased mortality in the skin is shown to account for the observed age resistance of mice, where fewer cercariae mature into adult worms in mice of 1 month or more, than in very young mice.     

Schistosoma mansoni: topochemical features of cercariae, schistosomula, and adults

The teguments of developing and mature cercariae, recently transformed, and 1-wk-old schistosomula and adult worms were examined for the ultrastructural location of macromolecular carbohydrates and polyelectrolytes. The surface of mature cercariae within sporocysts and cercariae released from the snail is covered by a filamentous coat which reacts with cytochemical reagents for the demonstration of vicinal glycols, but neither the coat nor the surface of the tegument plasmalemma binds cationic colloidal iron at low pH.Upon penetrating mammalian skin, the cercaria sheds its surface coat; the tegument surface of newly transformed schistosomula, older schistosomula and adult worms stains en bloc with acidic colloidal iron, as does the tegument plasmalemma of mature cercariae if the overlying filamentous coat is first removed by physicochemical means. The cercarial coat thus serves to mask anionic groups at the surface of the tegument plasmalemma which become functionally exposed after penetration of the mammalian host. The distribution of colloidal iron binding sites coincides with those for the carbohydrate-complexing phytohemmagglutnin, concanavalin A, which suggests that these membrane-fixed anions are acid mucopolysaccharides, glycoproteins or glycolipids. Carbohydrate-containing material was also localized within membrane-bound vesicles of the tegument matrix and perikarya of developing cercariae and postcercarial schistosomes, suggesting that surface mucosubstances contributing to the tegument glycocalyx of these worms are elaborated, at least in part, by the tegument itself.     

Schistosoma mansoni: The attrition of a challenge infection in mice immunized with highly irradiated live cercariae

Mice immunized percutaneously with 400 Schistosoma mansoni cercariae given 20 kR of ⁶⁰Co irradiation were shown to develop an immunity in which nearly 80% of the parasites that would be expected to survive in control mice were killed. The major attrition of parasites was shown to occur within the first 4 days after challenge. Marked differences in the number of parasites which were recovered from the skin of immune mice and the failure of the majority of parasites to reach the lungs of immune mice indicated that the major site of attrition was in the skin. A further trickle of parasite deaths was evident beyond Day 5, but after Day 14 no further attrition of parasites appeared to occur. Mice immunized in the abdominal skin demonstrated similar levels of immunity whether challenged in the abdominal skin or in the ear. Immunization intramuscularly with irradiated schistosomula induced a much lower level of resistance and the marked parasite attrition in the skin at Day 2 was absent. Immunization with only 50 irradiated cercariae was shown to induce a level of skin immunity equivalent to that seen with 400 irradiated cercariae. The majority of cercariae given 20 kR of ⁶⁰Co irradiation remained in the skin; approximately 2% only reached the lungs. These studies demonstrate that percutaneous immunization of mice with highly irradiated cercariae induced a strong immunity which was largely effective in the skin. This immunity differed from that developed by chronically infected mice where the major attrition of parasites occurs after the lung phase of migration. The results also suggest that the penetration or persistence in the skin of live attenuated schistosomula may play a crucial role in the induction of a high level of skin immunity.     

Reappraisal of experimental infections with cercariae and schistosomula of a Brazilian strain of Schistosoma mansoni in mice.

The present investigation involves a reevaluation of previous results obtained after experimental infection of Swiss Webster mice with cercariae and schistosomula of the Schistosoma mansoni LE strain maintained under laboratory conditions. Three experimental groups of mice were considered: the animals of the first group were percutaneously (ring method) infected with cercariae, those of the second were subcutaneously inoculated with cercariae and the mice of the third were inoculated by the same route with schistosomula transformed in vitro. The data obtained so far indicated that the most effective method of infection is the subcutaneous injection with schistosomula, with a mean adult worm burden recovery of 54.1% when compared to the abdominal percutaneous and subcutaneous routes of infection with cercariae, in which the values were 36.7% and 32.4%, respectively. This suggests that, in experimental infections of SW mice with a LE S. mansoni strain, the skin is to be considered an effective attrition site in the percutaneous route, whereas in the case of inoculation with cercariae, a small amount of larvae fails to be transformed into viable schistosomula, possibly due to skin phase avoidance. A brief discussion about attrition sites and elimination of larval S. mansoni worms in mice is presented.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Trichobilharzia regenti</Emphasis>: Antigenic structures of intravertebrate stages

Like several other bird schistosomes, neurotropic schistosome of Trichobilharzia regenti can invade also mammals, including humans. Repeated infections cause cercarial dermatitis, a skin inflammatory reaction leading to parasite elimination in non-specific mammalian hosts. However, in experimentally primo-infected mice, the worms escape from the skin and migrate to the central nervous system. In order to evade host immune reactions, schistosomes undergo cercaria/schistosomulum transformation accompanied with changes of surface antigens. The present study is focused on localization of the main antigens of T. regenti; cercariae, schistosomula developed under different conditions and adults were compared. Antigens were localized by immunofluorescence and ultrastructural immunocytochemistry using sera of mice repeatedly infected with T. regenti. Detected antibody targets were located in glycocalyx and penetration glands of cercariae and in tegument of cercariae, schistosomula and adults. Shedding of cercarial glycocalyx significantly reduced surface reactivity; further decrease was reported during ongoing development of schistosomula. Spherical bodies, probably transported from subtegumental cell bodies to worm surface, were identified as the most reactive tegumental structures. Based on similar results for schistosomula developed in specific, non-specific hosts and in vitro, it seems that the ability of T. regenti to decrease the surface immunoreactivity during ontogenesis is independent on the host type.     

Survival of bird schistosomes in mammalian lungs

Bird schistosome cercariae have a low specificity to vertebrate skin and, thus, they are also able to penetrate into mammals. As a consequence, a hypersensitive skin response-cercarial dermatitis-develops. It was thought that the parasites die in the skin soon after penetration. Our results on Trichobilharzia szidati and Bilharziella polonica in the non-specific murine host confirm that some of the penetrating bird schistosomes may fully transform to schistosomula and migrate to the lungs. They persist there for up to 10days post exposure. In a duck, the worms grow and feed rapidly, but in a mouse the lung schistosomula seem to be inhibited in their development. However, TEM results show that there is no damage to the tegument of these larvae and no immune effector cells attack the parasites. These results suggest that the parasite's failure in the murine host might be caused by some immunologically unrelated factors.