Schistocephalus solidus: pinocytosis by the plerocercoid tegument |
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Authors: | C A Hopkins L M Law L T Threadgold |
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Affiliation: | Wellcome Laboratories for Experimental Parasitology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.;Zoology Department, Queen''s University, Belfast, North Ireland, U.K. |
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Abstract: | The possibility of pinocytosis occurring in the tegument of the plerocercoid of Schistocephalus solidus has been investigated by morphological and experimental methods. Electronmicroscopic study showed that the outer syncytial tegument contained numerous electronlucid vesicles. These vesicles had two gradients, the number of vesicles decreasing from the outer canopy region to the inner canopy and from the apical to the basal plasma membrane for any particular region of tegument. A variety of morphological modifications of the apical plasma membrane very similar to those which have been accepted as evidence of pinocytosis in other tissues were present. In vitro studies using horseradish peroxidase, ruthenium red, and lanthanum nitrate showed that all three tracers are taken up by the tegument into membrane-limited vesicles. Vesicles which contained ruthenium red occurred at the base of the tegument within a 5-min incubation period, and their contents appeared to be released into the underlying interstitial material by exocytosis. |
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Keywords: | cestode Tapeworm Plerocercoid Ultrastructure Plasma membrane modifications Vesicles and their gradients Uptake of horseradish peroxidase, ruthenium red, and lanthanum |
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