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American canine hepatozoonosis is caused by Hepatozoon americanum, a protozoan parasite, the definitive host of which is the tick, Amblyomma maculatum. Infection of the dog follows ingestion of ticks that harbor sporulated H. americanum oocysts. Following penetration of the intestinal mucosa, sporozoites are disseminated systemically and give rise to extensive asexual multiplication in cells located predominantly in striated muscle. The parasitized canine cells in "onion skin" cysts and in granulomas situated within skeletal muscle, as well as those in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL), were identified as macrophages by use of fine structure morphology and/or immunohistochemical reactivity with macrophage markers. Additionally, two basic morphologic forms of the parasite were observed in macrophages of granulomas and PBLs. The forms were presumptively identified as merozoites and gamonts. The presence of a "tail" in some gamonts in PBLs indicated differentiation toward microgametes. Recognition of merozoites in PBLs supports the contention that hematogenously redistributed merozoites initiate repeated asexual cycles and could explain persistence of infection for long periods in the vertebrate host. Failure to clearly demonstrate a host cell membrane defining a parasitophorous vacuole may indicate that the parasite actively penetrates the host cell membrane rather than being engulfed by the host cell, as is characteristic of some protozoans. 相似文献
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R J Panciera S A Ewing J S Mathew T W Lehenbauer C A Cummings J P Woods 《Veterinary parasitology》1999,82(4):261-272
We report previously undescribed, early lesions in skeletal muscle of dogs experimentally infected with Hepatozoon americanum by ingestion of laboratory-reared, infected Amblyomma maculatum. The earliest muscle lesion was recognized at the first interval of examination 3 weeks following exposure. The lesion consisted of a large, modified host cell whose cytoplasm frequently contained a demonstrable parasite. In skeletal muscle, the cell was consistently located between muscle fibers or in loose connective tissue adjacent to those fibers. Evidence suggesting that the parasite arrives in muscle and other tissue within the host cell cytoplasm is presented. Mucopolysaccharide encystment of the host cell, absent at this early stage, was acquired gradually and approached maximal development 26 weeks post exposure. Completion of the asexual cycle as evidenced by the presence of parasites entering vascular lumens within granulomas and also by the presence of gamonts in peripheral blood leukocytes, occurred within 28-32 days postexposure. Progression of the parasite cycle from meront to passage of zoites into vessel lumens of granulomas can occur in 11 or fewer days. The density with which parasitic lesions occur in one named skeletal muscle compared to other named muscles, although somewhat variable, was not significantly different in either experimentally induced or natural infections. The distribution of developmental stages of the parasite/lesion in four experimental infections (969 lesions) is compared with those in eight dogs with natural infections (557 lesions). 相似文献
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The events were studied which occurred during different stages of the cell cycle of bovine lymphoblastoid cells infected with the parasite Theileria parva. The mean number of nuclei in macroschizonts was about 16 for cells in interphase and 30 for those in metaphase. Pulse labelling with 3H thymidine showed that macroschizonts normally incorporated thymidine when the host cell was in early mitosis. Thymidine incorporation by macroschizonts thus occurred at a different stage in the cell cycle to that when the cell nucleus incorporated thymidine in S phase. DNA synthesis by host cell nucleus and macroschizont is thus asynchronous. Division of macroschizonts appears to follow immediately after they have synthesised DNA without a G2 period. This division occurs while the host cell is in metaphase. When the cell divides each daughter cell thus contains its interphase complement of macroschizont nuclei. Some macroschizont division may occur in interphase but this is relatively insignificant when compared with that which occurs in host cell metaphase. This work suggests that T parva regulates its own DNA synthesis independently of the cell. This finding could have application in developing strategies for chemotherapeutic attack on the parasite. 相似文献
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寄生虫金属蛋白酶研究进展 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
金属蛋白酶（Metalloproteinase）是虫体活性中心依赖于金属离子的一类蛋白酶，在寄生虫中其分布非常广泛，功能涉及寄生虫营养摄取、细胞分化、对宿主的入侵以及免疫逃避等许多方面，一些金属蛋白酶还具有比较强的免疫原性。寄生虫金属蛋白酶的功能和作用的阐明，将为寄生虫病的免疫诊断和治疗以及新型生物制剂的开发开辟新的思路。本文综述了寄生虫金属蛋白酶的最新研究进展。 相似文献
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寄生虫在入侵机体时必须具备逃避机体免疫,破坏宿主免疫屏障才能感染,这种入侵过程必然和宿主机体的免疫系统发生联系,不但使宿主的先天免疫细胞功能缺失,而且获得性免疫也受到抑制。寄生虫感染均不同程度地伴随免疫损伤,宿主在感染寄生虫后产生的免疫应答中,细胞因子作为免疫过程中的介质起到关键作用,主要是调节机体细胞免疫抗虫,保护机体不被感染,其中巨噬细胞是主要功能的承担者。本文将阐述细胞因子在寄生虫感染过程中所发挥的免疫作用,为解决寄生虫感染的防控问题奠定基础,同时为寄生虫的研究提供新的思路。 相似文献
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H.C. Gibbs 《Veterinary parasitology》1982,11(1):25-48
Mechanisms involved in parasitic nematode survival must be considered with reference to their host and environmental interrelationships since these interrelationhips ultimately influence any parasite adaptations aimed at survival.The most important of the potential environmental constraints are climatic, particularly temperature and humidity, and these can drastically influence larval development and survival.One of the major host factors influencing successful parasite survival is the availability of suitable (susceptible) new hosts to the infective stages of the parasite at the appropriate time for transmission to be achieved. Other host factors that influence parasite survival are those that affect the entrance, establishment and reproduction of the parasite within its new host; mainly problems of acclimatization to a parasitic way of life as well as the countering or adaptation to a variety of host resistance factors, both molecular and cellular, by the parasite.Finally in order for life cycles to be completed, the parasite must evolve means whereby its larval forms can leave the host so that eventual transmission to a new host can be accomplished.In this paper a number of adaptations which enable the parasite to overcome these constraints are discussed. These include such things as larval resistance to environmental effects, the utilization of intermediate hosts or vectors for transmission, seasonally-increased fecundity rates, anti-host immunity stratagems and hypobiosis.This latter phenomenon, hypobiosis or prolonged but temporarily arrested larval development, represents one of the most useful of life cycle adaptations to ensure parasite adaption enables the parasite to synchronize its life cycle to changing environmental or survival and appears to be widespread among parasitic nematodes. Among its benefits, this host conditions. It can thus be of major importance in ensuring survival of the parasite during periods of environmental adversity when conditions for transmission are poor and survival of free-living forms may be minimal. It also enables the parasite to have available large numbers of infective forms at points in the host reproductive cycle which coincide with the production of the susceptible neonates thereby greatly facilitating transmission. Additionally, with certain species of nematodes, occurring as it does at times of the year when the numbers of infective stages may be high while host resources may be limited, oscillations in parasite biomass can be avoided. It thus serves as a highly adaptive mechanism for regulating populations of adult worms, lessening stress on the host and favoring parasite survival as a result. 相似文献
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Nishikawa Y Iwata A Nagasawa H Fujisaki K Otsuka H Mikami T 《The Journal of veterinary medical science / the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science》2001,63(4):445-448
The growth inhibitory effects of recombinant canine interferon alpha (IFN-alpha), beta (IFN-beta) and gamma (IFN-gamma) were examined on Madin-Darby canine kidney cells infected with Neospora caninum tachyzoites. The parasite growth was inhibited by all IFNs in a dose-dependent manner. IFN-gamma inhibited the parasite growth with greater efficacy than IFN-alpha or IFN-beta. Moreover, the effect of IFNs on N. caninum growth associated with the suppression of the host cell viability. The present study indicates IFN-alpha and -beta, besides IFN-gamma, play a crucial role for N. caninum growth in host cells. 相似文献
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Profiling excretory/secretory proteins of Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Infection of mammalian skeletal muscle with the intracellular parasite Trichinella spiralis results in profound alterations in the host cell and a realignment of host cell gene expression. The role of parasite excretory/secretory (E/S) products in mediating these effects is unknown, largely due to the difficulty in identifying and assigning function to individual proteins. In this study, we have used two-dimensional electrophoresis to analyse the profile of muscle larva excreted/secreted proteins and have coupled this to protein identification using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Interpretation of the peptide mass fingerprint data has relied primarily on the interrogation of a custom-made Trichinella EST database and the NemaGene cluster database for T. spiralis. Our results suggest that this proteomic approach is a useful tool to study protein expression in Trichinella spp. and will contribute to the identification of excreted/secreted proteins. 相似文献
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Blood from calves infected with Theileria annulata and T parva was freed from host cell elements and the piroplasms liberated from the red cells by ammonium chloride lysis. Lysates of the purified piroplasms and control host cell material were examined electrophoretically for several enzymes. Zymograms stained for glucose phosphate isomerase showed distinct differences between the host cell enzyme pattern and parasite enzyme patterns. The isoenzyme pattern of T annulata piroplasms differed from the isoenzyme pattern of T parva piroplasms. 相似文献
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Pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Bhopale GM 《Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases》2003,26(4):213-222
The present review article deals with the pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis. The article briefly highlights some important aspects such as different strains, mode of infection and clinical characteristics, entry into host cell, immune response, host parasite interaction, tissue cyst formation and disease recurrence. 相似文献
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虽然旋毛虫抗肿瘤的分子机制仍不清楚,但旋毛虫具有抗肿瘤的效应却已被许多实验所证实。小鼠感染旋毛虫后对肿瘤细胞在体内的增殖或对移植进体内的肿瘤生长的抑制作用,其可能的机理是旋毛虫感染机体后激发宿主免疫网络系统促使机体产生多种免疫活性细胞因子,发挥特异性和非特异性抗肿瘤免疫功能;或者是由于寄生虫本身就具有能够分泌排泄一些抗肿瘤活性物质而发挥抗肿瘤效应;或者是由于寄生虫感染诱导肿瘤的基因表达发生变化而产生了抗肿瘤的效应。 相似文献
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Mercer SH Craig TM 《Veterinary clinical pathology / American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology》1988,17(3):63-65
The staining characteristics of gamonts of Hepatozoon canis in peripheral blood smears were evaluated. Three stains, Diff-Quik stain, Giemsa stain and a modification of the naphthol-ASD-chloroacetate esterase stain, were compared. The staining characteristics of the infected cell and the parasite were different in each stain used. The modified naphthol-ASD-chloroacetate esterase stain showed the most difference between the infected and noninfected cells, as well as a difference in staining characteristics of the parasite nucleus from those of the host nucleus. Although the parasite was identified with all stains, a definitive diagnosis was more easily obtained with the naphthol-ASD-chloroacetate esterase stain. 相似文献
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Cyclical interactions between intracellular schizonts of the Ankara and Hissar strains of Theileria annulata and the Muguga strain of T. parva and the parasitised host lymphoblasts have been studied autoradiographically by following the incorporation of (3H) thymidine into parasite and host cell nuclei, and also by quantitating the number of schizont nuclei per lymphoblast, at various stages and phases of host cell cycle. The synthesis of DNA by Theileria schizonts and the parasitised host lymphoblasts was found to be asynchronous and to occur at different phases of the host cell interphase stage. While the lymphoblast nuclear DNA incorporates (3H) thymidine during the S phase, schizont nuclei were labelled during the G2 phase of the host lymphoblast interphase stage. The replication of schizont nuclei took place before the metaphase stage of host cell cycle, viz, prometaphase, so that the mean schizont nuclear number at host prometaphase and at anaphase--telophase was consistently more or less double the mean nuclear number at interphase. 相似文献
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长链非编码RNA(long noncoding RNA,lncRNA)是一种核酸长度>200 nt、不编码或具有有限编码能力的RNA,早期一直被认为是遗传暗物质,但伴随分子生物学技术的进步,越来越多的lncRNAs被发掘。研究表明,lncRNA作为基因表达的关键调控因子,能在组蛋白修饰、转录调控和转录后调控等方面影响基因表达,几乎参与所有的细胞生物学过程。顶复门原虫是一类专性胞内寄生虫,入侵机制复杂,对顶复门原虫与宿主的互作研究已成为新型抗虫药物的研发基础。近年来研究发现,lncRNA作为一类新型调控因子广泛参与到顶复门原虫与宿主细胞相互作用中,包括感染免疫、发育分化和信号传导等细胞生物学过程,既可帮助宿主抵御寄生虫入侵,也可协助寄生虫在胞内增殖发育,对疾病的发生发展具有重要的调控作用。笔者通过对lncRNA的生物学分类及其在细胞生理过程中的主要功能进行概述,综合近年来lncRNA在以弓形虫、疟原虫和隐孢子虫为主要代表的顶复门原虫的相关研究,系统梳理了lncRNA在宿主免疫反应、寄生虫发育分化和表观遗传调控等方面的作用机制,以期为顶复门原虫致病机理研究及高效防控技术研发提供新的思... 相似文献
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弓形虫P30基因及其功能 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
徐大刚 《中国兽医寄生虫病》2002,(3)
弓形虫 P30基因所编码的蛋白为弓形虫主要表面抗原 SAG1 ,其约占速殖子总蛋白量的 5 %,SAG1对虫体侵入宿主细胞及其毒力具重要性 ,并有高度免疫原性和免疫保护性 ,被用于弓形虫疫苗的研制和弓形虫感染的分子诊断 相似文献
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The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii can influence host resistance by modulating immune functions in various cell types. The stimulation of interleukin (IL)-12 production in macrophages, dendritic cells and neutrophils by T. gondii has been implicated to be important for skewing anti-parasite immunity early after infection as well as in mediating the pathologic effects induced by the parasite. The present study demonstrates secretion of IL-12 p40 and the bioactive p70 heterodimer by inflammatory macrophages following exposure to live Toxoplasma or tachyzoite lysate. Parasite induction of IL-12 occurred in a dose-dependent manner. Predigestion of T. gondii lysate with proteinase K abrogated its IL-12 inducing activity, thus indicating that a parasite protein(s) triggers this response. Macrophages from various mouse inbred strains showed a differential responsiveness: cells from T. gondii-susceptible mice released more IL-12 upon toxoplasmic challenge than those from resistant mice, although the infection rate and intracellular parasite growth were similar. In triggering macrophage production of IL-12, tachyzoites proved superior to bradyzoites prepared from the same T. gondii isolate. Furthermore, parasites of a mouse-virulent isolate became less efficient inducers of IL-12 following attenuation. The parallel loss in macrophage stimulation in vitro and acute virulence in vivo suggests a linkage of both parasite capacities. Together with the correlation on host side between the genotype-dependent mouse susceptibility to infection and cellular responsiveness to the parasite trigger, these findings indicate that an overproduction of parasite-induced IL-12 might represent a basic mechanism of T. gondii pathogenicity. 相似文献
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Morrison WI 《Veterinary parasitology》2007,148(1):21-30
The evolution of antigenically distinct pathogen strains that fail to cross-protect is well documented for pathogens controlled primarily by humoral immune responses. Unlike antibodies, which recognise native proteins, protective T cells can potentially recognise epitopes in a variety of proteins that are not necessarily displayed on the pathogen surface. Moreover, individual hosts of different MHC genotypes generally respond to different sets of epitopes. It is therefore less easy to envisage how strain restricted immunity can arise for pathogens controlled by T cell responses, particularly in antigenically complex parasites. Nevertheless, strain restricted immunity is clearly a feature of a number of parasitic infections, where immunity is known to be mediated by T cell responses. One such parasite is Theileria parva which induces potent CD8 T cell responses that play an important role in immunity. CD8 T cells specific for parasitized lymphoblasts exhibit strain specificity, which appears to correlate with the ability of parasite strains to cross-protect. Studies using recently identified T. parva antigens recognised by CD8 T cells have shown that the strain restricted nature of immunity is a consequence of the CD8 T cell response in individual animals being focused on a limited number of dominant polymorphic antigenic determinants. Responses in animals of different MHC genotypes are often directed to different parasite antigens, indicating that, at the host population level, a larger number of parasite proteins can serve as targets for the protective T cell response. Nevertheless, the finding that parasite strains show overlapping antigenic profiles, probably as a consequence of sexual recombination, suggests that induction of responses to an extended but limited set of antigens in individual animals may overcome the strain restricted nature of immunity. 相似文献