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Effects of cyclosporin A on the morphology and tegumentary ultrastructure of Hymenolepis microstoma in vivo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. M. Wastling ,
K. Mackenzie  and
L. H. Chappell
J. M. Wastling
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN, Scotland
K. Mackenzie
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN, Scotland
L. H. Chappell
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN, Scotland
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Cyclosporin A (CsA) induced significant changes in parasite morphology when administered to mice infected with Hymenolepis microstoma. Gross morphological damage consisted of proglottis swelling and the formation of protuberances from the worm surface, visible with a low-power dissecting microscope, occurring most frequently in the posterior third of the strobila. Gross morphology and ultrastructure were examined further using scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Swollen proglottides exhibited areas covered in small pits and fissures (diameter approximately 1–2 μm) but it was not possible to establish the significance of this damage. The brush-border and distal cytoplasm appeared largely intact although some evidence of swelling of the basal membrane invaginations and possible fluid accumulation was seen in drug-treated TEM sections. The apparent oedematous condition of many of the proglottides from drug-treated mice may indicate that CsA treatment mediates permeability changes in the worm surface membrane but the mechanisms by which this may occur remain to be elucidated. The effects of CsA on the morphology of H. microstoma correlate with the previously described anthelmintic activity of the drug against this parasite where CsA treatment dramatically reduces worm growth, retards migration into the bile duct and limits parasite survival.

Keywords

cyclosporin AHymenolepis microstomamorphologyelectron microscopymembrane permeability
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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 104 , Issue 3 , June 1992 , pp. 531 - 538
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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