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Development of larval Echinococcus granulosus confronted with chicken heart tissue in vitro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

D. Janssen,
P. H. De Rycke and
L. De Ridder
D. Janssen
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Zoophysiology, State University of Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
P. H. De Rycke
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Zoophysiology, State University of Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
L. De Ridder
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Histology, State University of Gent, L. Pasteurlaan 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
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Summary

Vesiculated protoscoleces (VP) were produced by culturing freshly collected protoscoleces from Echinococcus granulosus horse liver hydatids in RPMI 1640 monophasic medium at 37°C for 18 days. Half of the VP were used as such, the other half used after killing them by freeze—thawing. Nine-day-old chicken heart fragments (CHF) were cultured in MEM at 37°C for 72 h. Subsequently, CHF were put together with live and dead VP, respectively, for up to 53 days, on a semisolid medium consisting of agar, Ringer's and MEM. Time-dependent histological observations revealed that dead VP were surrounded by CHF cells. Dead VP tissue was eventually internalized and disintegrated in about 1 week. Live VP penetrated into the CHF tissue and further developed into small hydatid cysts, located within the boundaries of the experimental ‘host’ tissue. The amorphous-looking contact region PAP-stained positively only with anti-E. granulosus serum and not with anti-CHF serum; it was considered identical to the normal laminated layer. The invasion of VP in CHF tissue proved to be different from a tumour or a bacterial invasion: it was concluded that the confrontation of VP and CHF had resulted in an ‘in vitro cohabitation’ rather than in an ‘in vitro infecion’.

Keywords

Echinococcus granulosuslarval developmentin vitrochicken heart

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Parasitology , Volume 100 , Issue 3 , June 1990, pp. 453 - 458
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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