Evasion of the haemocytic defence reaction of certain insects by larvae of Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda)

Parasitology ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Lackie
Keyword(s):  
Schistocerca Gregaria ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Hymenolepis Diminuta ◽  
Insect Species ◽  
Defence Reaction ◽  
Latex Beads ◽  
Host Tissues

SummaryLarvae of Hymenolepis diminuta develop in the haemocoele of the beetles Tribolium and Tenebrio, and of the locust Schistocerca gregaria, without being encapsulated by haemocytes. The mechanism of this evasion of the haemocytic defence reaction has been examined using various techniques. Larvae grown in culture and injected into S. gregaria have few or no haemocytes adherent even after 8 h, although latex beads injected at the same time have been thickly encapsulated. This, and results of transplanting cysticercoids and host tissue between different insect species, suggests that the surface of the larvae may bear an inherent similarity to the surface of host tissues and thus escape recognition as ‘not-self’ by the host’s haemocytes.

Morphogenetic properties of the skin axolotl limb regeneration

Development ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-288
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. W. Slack
Keyword(s):  
Limb Regeneration ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Tissue Formation ◽  
Cellular Composition ◽  
Posterior Half ◽  
Tail Bud ◽  
Threshold Theory ◽  
Anterior Side ◽  
Immunological Rejection ◽  
Host Tissues

A study has been made of the morphogenetic properties of anterior and posterior skin from the lower forelimb of the axolotl. The basic experiment consisted of a graft of a half cuff of skin from a donor to a host limb followed by a 2-week healing period, amputation through the graft, and a study of the resulting regenerate. Limbs with double posterior skin formed double posterior regenerates and, in contrast, limbs with double anterior skin formed normal or slightly hypomorphic regenerates. Posterior skin from post-metamorphic animals had a similar but weaker effect to that from ordinary axolotls. Immunological rejection of allografts could be completely avoided if the donor limb was transplanted to the flank of the host when both were at the stage of tail-bud embryos, and the skin graft was later carried out between the supernumerary limb and one of the host limbs. This technique was used to show that immunological rejection does not affect the formation of duplicates from the limbs with double posterior skin, and to facilitate the studies of the cellular provenance of the regenerate. The cellular composition of duplicate regenerates was studied by using both triploid donors and triploid hosts. It was shown that the posterior side of the duplications consisted wholly of host tissue and the anterior side consisted of mixed donor and host tissue. Formation of the duplicated regenerate therefore seems to involve positional reprogramming of both donor and host tissues together with metaplasia of the donor tissue. It was not possible to inhibit the duplication-inducing property of posterior skin by treatment with a variety of enzymes. A model based on the serial threshold theory of regeneration is advanced to explain the results.This model successfully accounts for the observed non-equivalence of anterior and posterior skin, and also explains the different regeneration behaviour of anterior and posterior half limbs, the limited regeneration of double anterior limbs, and the pattern expansion and contraction shown by regenerates from double posterior limbs.

scholarly journals Selected Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Parasite–Host System Hymenolepis diminuta–Rattus norvegicus

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 2435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrycja Kapczuk ◽  
Danuta Kosik-Bogacka ◽  
Natalia Łanocha-Arendarczyk ◽  
Izabela Gutowska ◽  
Patrycja Kupnicka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Microflora ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Mechanical Damage ◽  
Salivary Secretion ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Hymenolepis Diminuta ◽  
Trypsin Activity ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Host Interaction ◽  
Host Tissues

The rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta is a parasite of the small intestine of rodents (mainly mice and rats), and accidentally humans. It is classified as a non-invasive tapeworm due to the lack of hooks on the tapeworm’s scolex, which could cause mechanical damage to host tissues. However, many studies have shown that metabolites secreted by H. diminuta interfere with the functioning of the host’s gastrointestinal tract, causing an increase in salivary secretion, suppression of gastric acid secretion, and an increase in the trypsin activity in the duodenum chyme. Our work presents the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of a parasite-host interaction, including the influence on ion transport and host intestinal microflora, morphology and biochemical parameters of blood, secretion of antioxidant enzymes, expression of Toll-like receptors, mechanisms of immune response, as well as the expression and activity of cyclooxygenases. We emphasize the interrelations between the parasite and the host at the cellular level resulting from the direct impact of the parasite as well as host defense reactions that lead to changes in the host’s tissues and organs.

RIBONUCLEASE ACTIVITY IN RUSTED WHEAT LEAVES

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Rohringer ◽  
D. J. Samborski ◽  
C. O. Person
Keyword(s):  
Leaf Rust ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Ribonuclease Activity ◽  
Rnase Activity ◽  
Rnase Inhibitor ◽  
Germination Medium ◽  
Wheat Leaves ◽  
Host Tissues

Extracts from primary leaves of Lee wheat were prepared at various days following inoculation with races of leaf rust and tested for ribonuclease (RNase) activity. As early as 24 hours after inoculation there was a marked increase in the specific activity of the enzyme in extracts of rusted host tissues. A further increase in activity was observed during later stages of infection, with the susceptible and resistant reacting tissue differing only in the degree of their response. Extracts from noninoculated control leaves exhibited a constant RNase activity throughout the period of observation. The germination medium and extracts from germinating uredospores contained comparatively little RNase activity. No direct evidence was obtained either for the possible release of the enzyme from particulate cellular fractions of the host tissue as a result of infection or for the removal of an RNase inhibitor in the host tissue responding to infection.

Mast cell response during the early phase of tuberculosis: an electron-microscopic study

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1245-1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Ratnam ◽  
Shobhitha Ratnam ◽  
B. K. Puri ◽  
Saroj Chandrasekhar
Keyword(s):  
Mast Cell ◽  
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Tuberculous Infection ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Morphological Alterations ◽  
Dense Bodies ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Host Tissues

Guinea pig lungs were infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis by intratracheal route and examined under electron microscope to investigate the morphological alterations of the organisms, if any, and the response of the host tissue. The bacilli showed no changes in their morphology, while the host tissues revealed several cells containing many electron-dense intracytoplasmic granules. These cells were predominantly seen during the 1st week of infection. The electron-dense bodies of these cells may be the ones observed by earlier workers and suggested to be the altered forms of tubercle bacilli. The present investigation, however, revealed them to be the granules of the mast cells. These cells were observed to respond to tuberculous infection during the first few days by appearing in large numbers crowded with intracytoplasmic granules and soon disintegrating as the result of subsequent degranulation. The above observation is presented and its significance discussed.

Ectopic induction and reorganization of Wnt-1 expression in quail/chick chimeras

Development ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 120 (12) ◽  
pp. 3379-3394 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bally-Cuif ◽  
M. Wassef
Keyword(s):  
Expression Profile ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Host Embryo ◽  
Positive Line ◽  
Host Tissues

When grafted ectopically into the diencephalon of a chick host embryo, a portion of met-mesencephalon straddling the met-mesencephalic constriction has the capacity to induce En-2 expression in the surrounding host tissue. Subsequently, tectal and cerebellar structures, composed of both host and grafted cells, are reconstructed in this ectopic location at the expense of the host diencephalon. Previous experiments indicated that the induction of En-2 was correlated with Wnt-1 expression within the graft. The aim of the present study was: (i) to determine whether Wnt-1 expression was spatially regulated within the graft, (ii) to investigate whether host Wnt-1-expressing cells were also involved in the ectopic met-mesencephalic development and, if so, (iii) to localize these Wnt-1-positive domains in relation to the patterning of the ectopically developing met-mesencephalic territory. We studied the expression profile of Wnt-1, in relation with that of other positional markers, in quail/chick chimeras where various portions of met-mesencephalon had been grafted into the diencephalon. We found that Wnt-1 expression was reorganized within the graft, and that it was also induced in the host in contact with the graft. Moreover, these ectopic expressions of Wnt-1, in both the grafted and the surrounding host tissues, were organized in concert to form a continuous positive line at the host/graft junction, the location of which depended on the precise origin of the graft. Finally, we found that this line was frequently located at the limit between territories expressing different positional markers. We propose that Wnt-1 expression is turned on at the junction between domains of different phenotypes, and may be used as a border to stabilize these adjacent differently committed territories.

scholarly journals Insight into motility-dependent pathogenicity of the zoonotic spirochete Leptospira

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Xu ◽  
Nobuo Koizumi ◽  
Shuichi Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Host Tissue ◽  
Solid Surfaces ◽  
Host Cells ◽  
Bacterial Motility ◽  
Kidney Cells ◽  
Pathogenic Species ◽  
Tissue Surfaces ◽  
Crawling Motility ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Host Tissues

AbstractBacterial motility is crucial for many pathogenic species in the process of invasion and/or dissemination. The spirochete bacteria Leptospira spp. cause symptoms, such as hemorrhage, jaundice, and nephritis, in diverse mammals including humans. Although loss-of-motility attenuate the spirochete, the mechanism of the motility-dependent pathogenicity is unknown. Here, focusing on that Leptospira spp. swim in liquid and crawl on solid surfaces, we investigated the spirochetal dynamics on the host tissues by infecting cultured kidney cells from various species with pathogenic and nonpathogenic leptospires. We found that, in the case of the pathogenic leptospires, a larger fraction of bacteria attached to the host cells and persistently traveled long distances using the crawling mechanism. Our results associate the kinetics and kinematic features of the spirochetal pathogens with their virulence.One Sentence SummaryAdhesivity and crawling motility over host tissue surfaces are closely related to the pathogenicity of a zoonotic spirochete.

Spotting genes and internal pigmentation patterns in the mouse

Development ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
M. S. Deol
Keyword(s):  
Inner Ear ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Harderian Gland ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Host Tissues

Hereditary white spotting in the mouse may be caused by genes at over a dozen loci. It is thought that some genes achieve their effects by acting through the melanoblasts, and others by acting through the host tissue. The genes mi, Miwh, Wv and s are believed to belong to the former category. But it is not known how the abnormality of the melanoblasts is transformed into the spotting patterns observed. According to one view, the capacity of the melanoblasts to respond to some melanogenesis-promoting factor in the host tissues is impaired, and as all melanoblasts are affected about equally, the pattern depends on normal variations in the distribution of this factor in the host tissue. According to another, a proportion of the melanoblasts are ‘preprogrammed’ to die before differentiation. Both views are largely based on studies on the coat. It was thought that an investigation of the spotting patterns in the choroid, the Harderian gland and the inner ear might throw fresh light on the problem. This was carried out in the genotypes +/mi, Miwh/+, Wv/+, Wv/Wv and s/s. The results provide strong support for the view that all melanoblasts are affected and the host tissue plays an important role in determining the pattern of spotting. However, there appear to be some indications that all melanoblasts may not be affected to the same degree.

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