Setaria equina: In vivo effect of diethylcarbamazine citrate on microfilariae in albino rats |
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Authors: | GA El-Shahawi AH Saad |
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Institution: | a Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Egypt b Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt c Therapeutic Chemistry Department, Infectious Diseases and Immunology Laboratory, The Center of Excellence for Advanced Sciences, The National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo 12311, Egypt |
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Abstract: | Although diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC) is successful drug in eliminating human filariasis, yet, its mode of action is still debatable. Herein, the effect of DEC to treat albino rats infected with the animal filarial parasite Setaria equina was tested. Microfilarial (mf) counts and sections from liver, lung, kidney as well as spleen were investigated at different time points after treatment by light microscopy. After 45 and 300 min of treatment, a significant decrease in blood mf was observed accompanied by adherence of degenerated mf to both kupffer cells and leukocyte in liver sections. In lung sections, loss of sheath was observed at 45 min, while degeneration was observed at later time points. In kidney sections, more mf counts and less matrix were observed in the glomeruli at all time points after treatment. Degenerated mf were observed in spleen sections only at, late time point, 480 min after treatment. In conclusion, one of the possible mechanisms by which DEC reduces blood microfilarial count is trapping larvae in organs and killing them through cellular adherence. |
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Keywords: | Setaria equina Albino rats Experimental infection Diethylcarbamazine citrate Organs |
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