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Gui WF, Xu S, Dang ZS, Zhao YM. In Vitro and in Vivo Effect of MAPK Signal Transduction Pathway Inhibitors on Echinococcus multilocularis. J Parasitol 2019; 105:146-154. [PMID: 30807708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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To evaluate the effect of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway inhibitors against alveolar echinococcosis in vitro and in vivo, Echinococcus multilocularis metacestode cysts and protoscolices were obtained from infected mice. Protein chip technology was utilized to screen for key highly expressed target proteins in the MAPK pathway in this parasite and their corresponding inhibitors. Four-week-old Balb/c female mice used for the in vivo experiment underwent inoculation of E. multilocularis by intraperitoneal injection, as well as intragastric administration of MAPK inhibitors for 6 wk. We included 6 groups of mice: a phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) group (negative control); an albendazole-treated group (positive group); and 4 experimental groups treated with TRx0237 mesylate, GDC-0994, pifithrin-β hydrobromide, or Selonsertib. Echinococcus multilocularis protoscolices were collected and cultured in 1066 medium with penicillin/streptomycin and 10% fetal bovine serum. The in vitro experiment included a PBS group (negative control), a dimethyl sulfoxide-treated group (solvent group), and 4 inhibitor-treated groups as in the in vivo experiment (experimental groups). Each inhibitor group received 4 drug concentrations (5, 30, 55, and 80 μM), and the experiment was performed in triplicate per sample. Fluorescence microscopy was used to evaluate the survival rate of the protoscolices every 48 hr beginning from the first 24 hr. The same grouping was used to evaluate cytotoxicity on E. multilocularis germinal cells and L02 cells. The average weights of E. multilocularis metacestode cyst tissue from each group of the in vivo experiment were 873 mg (PBS), 335 mg (albendazole), 323 mg (TRx0237 mesylate), 420 mg (GDC-0994), 340 mg (pifithrin-β hydrobromide), and 642 mg (Selonsertib). Results showed albendazole, TRx0237 mesylate, and pifithrin-β hydrobromide had significant inhibitory effects on inhibition of E. multilocularis. We found a positive correlation between drug concentrations and the inhibitory effects seen in the in vitro experiment, with the differences in contrast with the control group becoming statistically significant after 72 hr of treatment ( P < 0.05). The inhibition rates of TRx0237 mesylate to germinal cells by drug concentration were 23.73, 46.59, 74.71, and 77.44%. Other drugs had no effect on germinal cells. All the inhibitors had low toxicity on L02 cells. Inhibitors of the MAPK signal transduction pathway showed significant inhibitory effects on E. multilocularis, suggesting these may be potential candidates for the treatment of alveolar echinococcosis.
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- Wei-Feng Gui
- 1 Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, People's Republic of China
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- 1 Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, People's Republic of China
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- 2 Key Laboratory on Biology of Parasite and Vector, Ministry of Health, Shanghai, China; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Shanghai, China; and WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, Shanghai, China; and National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China
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- 1 Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, People's Republic of China
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Zhang C, Wang J, Lü G, Li J, Lu X, Mantion G, Vuitton DA, Wen H, Lin R. Hepatocyte proliferation/growth arrest balance in the liver of mice during E. multilocularis infection: a coordinated 3-stage course. PLoS One 2012; 7:e30127. [PMID: 22253905 PMCID: PMC3254660 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2011] [Accepted: 12/12/2011] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is characterized by the tumor-like growth of Echinococcus (E.) multilocularis. Very little is known on the influence of helminth parasites which develop in the liver on the proliferation/growth arrest metabolic pathways in the hepatocytes of the infected liver over the various stages of infection. Methodology/Principal Findings Using Western blot analysis, qPCR and immunohistochemistry, we measured the levels of MAPKs activation, Cyclins, PCNA, Gadd45β, Gadd45γ, p53 and p21 expression in the murine AE model, from day 2 to 360 post-infection. Within the early (day 2–60) and middle (day60–180) stages, CyclinB1 and CyclinD1 gene expression increased up to day30 and then returned to control level after day60; Gadd45β, CyclinA and PCNA increased all over the period; ERK1/2 was permanently activated. Meanwhile, p53, p21 and Gadd45γ gene expression, and caspase 3 activation, gradually increased in a time-dependent manner. In the late stage (day180–360), p53, p21 and Gadd45γ gene expression were significantly higher in infected mice; JNK and caspase 3 were activated. TUNEL analysis showed apoptosis of hepatocytes. No significant change in CyclinE, p53 mRNA and p-p38 expression were observed at any time. Conclusions Our data support the concept of a sequential activation of metabolic pathways which 1) would first favor parasitic, liver and immune cell proliferation and survival, and thus promote metacestode fertility and tolerance by the host, and 2) would then favor liver damage/apoptosis, impairment in protein synthesis and xenobiotic metabolism, as well as promote immune deficiency, and thus contribute to the dissemination of the protoscoleces after metacestode fertility has been acquired. These findings give a rational explanation to the clinical observations of hepatomegaly and of unexpected survival of AE patients after major hepatic resections, and of chronic liver injury, necrosis and of hepatic failure at an advanced stage and in experimental animals.
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- Chuanshan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- World Health Organization-Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, Department of Digestive Surgery; Jean Minjoz Hospital, University of Franche-Comté and University Hospital, Besançon, France
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- World Health Organization-Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, Department of Digestive Surgery; Jean Minjoz Hospital, University of Franche-Comté and University Hospital, Besançon, France
- Research Unit EA 3181 “Epithelial Carcinogenesis: Predictive and Prognostic Factors,” University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Major Diseases in Xinjiang and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- * E-mail: (RL); (HW)
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Kozłowska-Łój J, Rzymowska J. Infection with Echinococcus granulosus (Batsch, 1786) and expression of superoxide dismutase gene at mRNA level in hepatocytes. Wiad Parazytol 2006; 52:287-9. [PMID: 17432620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Superoxide dismutase (SOD) plays an important role in detoxication of the organism. Its function is to protect the organism against the cytotoxic action of free radicals. The highest expression of superoxide dismutase was observed in the hepatocytes adjacent to the hydatid cyst. The expression of this gene in the hepatocytes of infected livers 5 cm apart from the infection site was slightly lower.
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- Jolanta Kozłowska-Łój
- Chair and Department of Biology and Genetics, Skubiszewski Medical University of Lublin, Staszica 6, 20-081 Lublin, Poland
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Freire T, FERNáNDEZ C, Chalar C, Maizels R, Alzari P, Osinaga E, Robello C. Characterization of a UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase with an unusual lectin domain from the platyhelminth parasite Echinococcus granulosus. Biochem J 2004; 382:501-10. [PMID: 15142032 PMCID: PMC1133806 DOI: 10.1042/bj20031877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2003] [Revised: 05/06/2004] [Accepted: 05/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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As part of a general project aimed at elucidating the initiation of mucin-type O-glycosylation in helminth parasites, we have characterized a novel ppGalNAc-T (UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase) from the cestode Echinococcus granulosus (Eg-ppGalNAc-T1). A full-length cDNA was isolated from a library of the tissue-dwelling larval stage of the parasite, and found to code for a 654-amino-acid protein containing all the structural features of ppGalNAc-Ts. Functional characterization of a recombinant protein lacking the transmembrane domain showed maximal activity at 28 degrees C, in the range 6.5-7.5 pH units and in the presence of Cu2+. In addition, it transferred GalNAc to a broad range of substrate peptides, derived from human mucins and O-glycosylated parasite proteins, including acceptors containing only serine or only threonine residues. Interestingly, the C-terminal region of Eg-ppGalNAc-T1 bears a highly unusual lectin domain, considerably longer than the one from other members of the family, and including only one of the three ricin B repeats generally present in ppGalNAc-Ts. Furthermore, a search for conserved domains within the protein C-terminus identified a fragment showing similarity to a recently defined domain, specialized in the binding of organic phosphates (CYTH). The role of the lectin domain in the determination of the substrate specificity of these enzymes suggests that Eg-ppGalNAc-T1 would be involved in the glycosylation of a special type of substrate. Analysis of the tissue distribution by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry revealed that this transferase is expressed in the hydatid cyst wall and the subtegumental region of larval worms. Therefore it could participate in the biosynthesis of O-glycosylated parasite proteins exposed at the interface between E. granulosus and its hosts.
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- Teresa Freire
- *Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Av. Gral. Flores 2125, Montevideo CP 11800, Uruguay
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- †Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K
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- ‡Sección Bioquímica, Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- †Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K
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- §Unité de Biochimie Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- *Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Av. Gral. Flores 2125, Montevideo CP 11800, Uruguay
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- *Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Av. Gral. Flores 2125, Montevideo CP 11800, Uruguay
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Díaz A, Willis AC, Sim RB. Expression of the proteinase specialized in bone resorption, cathepsin K, in granulomatous inflammation. Mol Med 2000; 6:648-59. [PMID: 11055584 PMCID: PMC1949978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The cysteine proteinase cathepsin K has aroused intense interest as the main effector in the digestion of extracellular matrix during bone resorption by osteoclasts. The enzyme is not a housekeeping lysosomal hydrolase, but is instead expressed with striking specificity in osteoclasts. In this work, we present evidence for the association of cathepsin K with the granulomatous reaction. Granulomas are inflammatory tissue reactions against persistent pathogens or foreign bodies. We came across cathepsin K while working on Echinococcus granulosus, a persistent tissue-dwelling, cyst-forming parasite that elicits a granulomatous response. MATERIALS AND METHODS The walls of hydatid cysts from infected cattle were solubilized. Strong proteolytic activity was detected in the extracts. The proteinase responsible was purified by anion exchange and gel filtration. The purified protein was subjected to N-terminal sequencing, and its identity further confirmed by Western blotting, with a cathepsin K-specific antibody. The same antibody was used to localize the proteinase in paraffin-embedded sections of the parasite and the local host response. RESULTS A proteinase was purified to near homogeneity from hydatid cyst extracts. The enzyme was unequivocally identified as host cathepsin K. Both the proenzyme and the mature enzyme forms were found. Cathepsin K was then immunolocalized both to the parasite cyst wall and to the epithelioid and giant multinucleated cells of the host granulomatous response. CONCLUSIONS In the granulomatous response to the hydatid cyst, cathepsin K is expressed by epithelioid and giant multinucleated cells. We propose that, by analogy with bone resorption, cathepsin K is secreted by the host in an attempt to digest the persistent foreign body. Both processes, bone resorption and granulomatous reactions, therefore tackle persistent extracellular material (the bone matrix or the foreign body), and utilize specialized cells of the monocytic lineage (osteoclasts or epithelioid/giant cells) secreting cathepsin K as an effector.
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- A Díaz
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK.
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The activities of the enzymes in Echinococcus multilocularis metacestodes involved in purine salvage were studied by HPLC. As in most parasites, this cestode relies entirely on salvage of preformed bases and nucleosides for its purine requirement. Therefore, these enzymes may be targets for drugs in the chemotherapeutic treatment of diseases caused by this parasite. The animals used in this study were gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Enzyme activities from sera and hepatic tissue in control and infected animals were similar with the exception of adenine phosphoribosyltransferase which showed an activity 4-fold greater in the serum from control than in serum from infected animals. In the parasite, adenine and hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferases and adenosine deaminase had the highest activities. Therefore, in E. multilocularis metacestodes, this pathway seems to be important for the parasite's metabolism.
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- S Suchail
- Department of Parasitology and Medical Mycology, Claude-Bernard University, Lyon, France
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Teggi A, Giattino M, Franchi C, Lastilla M. [A hypothesis on the significance of an increase in serum transaminases in patients with hydatidosis treated with benzimidazole carbamates]. Recenti Prog Med 1997; 88:452-8. [PMID: 9471639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Increase of aminotransferases was observed in 58 out of 448 patients with hydatid disease without other risk factors (28 males and 30 females) during treatment with mebendazole and albendazole; all these patients had liver cysts. The enzymatic increase was always reversible and slight (ranged from 2-4 folds the normal values in most of patients), even without stopping treatment; it was less frequently observed during further cycles of therapy and it was never observed after surgical asportation of the cysts. Jaundice was never observed. The increase of transaminases appeared to be significantly correlated to effectiveness of therapy and to the earlier occurrence of degenerative modifications of the hydatid cysts. The authors hypothesize that besides hepatoxicity (in cases of marked increase of aminotransferases or in patients without liver cysts) slight increase of transaminases could be due to pericystic inflammation secondary to the marked host's immunitary reaction, and so could be considered as an index of therapeutic effectiveness.
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- A Teggi
- Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Università La Sapienza, Roma
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Arsac C, Walbaum S, Sarciron ME, Petavy AF. Histochemical observations of alkaline phosphatase activity of Echinococcus multilocularis during in vivo development in golden hamsters, an alternative definitive host. Exp Anim 1997; 46:25-30. [PMID: 9027468 DOI: 10.1538/expanim.46.25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Histochemical observations of alkaline phosphatase activity of Echinococcus multilocularis during the in vivo development in golden hamster, an alternative definitive host. The present work reports on the ability of protoscoleces from a European fox strain of E. multilocularis to differentiate and develop into the adult form in the small intestine of male golden hamsters treated with prednisolone. Detection of alkaline phosphatase activity on various stages of the developing worm was performed by histochemical methods. The enzyme activity was not demonstrable in the early stages of infection but occurred with strobilization. Age-related changes in the distribution of the enzyme activity took place during strobilization. Alkaline phosphatase activity was evident in the excretory ducts of 8 to 11 day old strobila and in the tegument of mature proglottis of 16 day old worms. This in vivo procedure with rodents as definitive hosts provides interesting preliminary results on the biology of the E. multilocularis adult. Further investigations on membrane-bound enzymes involved in physiological and nutritional processes are in progress.
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- C Arsac
- Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
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You JQ, Xiao SH, Guo HF, Jiao PY, Mei JY, Yao MY. Effect of mebendazole and praziquantel on glucosephosphate isomerase and glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase in Echinococcus granulosus cyst wall harbored in mice. Zhongguo Yao Li Xue Bao 1997; 18:75-7. [PMID: 10072900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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AIM To study effects of antihydatid drugs on glucosephosphate isomerase (GPI) and glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) in Echinococcus granulosus cyst wall. METHODS Mice infected with the parasite for 8-10 months were treated i.g. with mebendazole (Meb) or praziquantel (Pra). The activities of GPI and GAPDH in the cysts were measured by the formation of NADH or NADPH. RESULTS GPI activity in the cyst wall was 197 +/- 103 U, while that of GAPDH was 25 +/- 13 U. When infected mice were treated i.g. with Meb 25-50 mg.kg-1.d-1 for 7-14 d, no apparent effect on the GAPDH activity in the cyst was found. In mice treated i.g. with praziquantel (Pra) 500 mg.kg-1.d-1 for 14 d, the GAPDH activity in the cyst wall was inhibited by 26.5%. As to GPI activity only the group treated i.g. with Meb 25 mg.kg-1.d-1 for 14 d showed 33.2% inhibition of the enzyme in the collapsed cyst wall. CONCLUSION GPI and GAPDH are not the major targets attacked by the antihydatid drug.
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- J Q You
- Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai, China
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el-Mufti M, Kamag A, Ibrahim H, Taktuk S, Swaisi I, Zaidan A, Sameen A, Shimbish F, Bouzghaiba W, Haasi S. Albendazole therapy of hydatid disease: 2-year follow-up of 40 cases. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1993; 87:241-6. [PMID: 8257234 DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1993.11812762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Forty patients with 63 Echinococcus granulosus cysts affecting different sites were treated with albendazole and have been followed up for at least 24 months from completion of therapy. Twenty-one patients (53%) with 37 cysts (59%) showed evidence of healing. The criteria and pattern of healing are outlined. The most serious complication of albendazole therapy was hepatoxic jaundice, which occurred in 5% of patients. Recurrence during the observation period was encountered in 9.5% of patients with a positive response. It is suggested that patients suffering from uncomplicated hydatid disease should be given the benefit of a trial course of albendazole therapy, before surgery is undertaken.
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- M el-Mufti
- Department of Surgery, University Teaching Hospital, Hawari, Benghazi, Libya
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Xiao SH, Feng JJ, Guo HF, Jiao PY, Yao MY, Jiao W. Effects of mebendazole, albendazole, and praziquantel on succinate dehydrogenase, fumarate reductase, and malate dehydrogenase in Echinococcus granulosus cysts harbored in mice. Zhongguo Yao Li Xue Bao 1993; 14:151-154. [PMID: 8352009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Echinococcus granulosus cyst wall possess high biochemical activities of malate dehydrogenase (MD) and fumarate reductase (FR), but low activity of succinate dehydrogenase (SD), suggesting that the cyst wall may utilize a partial reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle. When infected mice were given intragastrically with mebendazole, 25-50 mg.kg-1.d-1, albendazole 300 mg.kg-1.d-1 or praziquantel 500 mg.kg-1.d-1 for 7-14 d, no apparent effects on SD and FR activities of the cyst wall were found, while the MD activity was suppressed by all the 3 drugs, the inhibition rates being 34.6-61.6%, 59.8%, and 50.6%, respectively. The results suggested that MD may not be an important target for the antihydatidosis drugs.
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- S H Xiao
- Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai
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Feng JJ, Xiao SH, Guo HF, Ren L, Jiao PY, Yao MY, Chai JJ. Effects of mebendazole, albendazole, and praziquantel on alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, and adenosine triphosphatase of Echinococcus granulosus cysts harbored in mice. Zhongguo Yao Li Xue Bao 1992; 13:497-501. [PMID: 1302436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Mice infected with protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus for 12-14 months were treated ig with mebendazole (Meb) 25-50 mg.kg-1 x d-1 for 7-14 d, albendazole (Alb) 200 mg.kg-1 x d-1, cr praziquantel (Pra) 500 mg.kg-1 x d-1 for 14 d. The mice were killed 24 h after the last medication, and acid phosphatase (ACP), alkaline phosphatase (AKP), and adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) including (Na, K, Mg)-ATPase, (Na, K)-ATPase, and (Mg)-ATPase were determined and compared with those of untreated control group. The results showed that ACP activities of cyst wall in treated groups were lower than the control group. Whereas AKP activity of cyst wall in Pra group increased markedly, this is not the case in Meb and Alb groups. Three ATPase activities of cyst wall were inhibited in both Meb and Alb groups, Meb being more potent. No apparent changes in the ATPase activities were seen in Pra group.
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- J J Feng
- Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai
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Sarciron ME, Azzar G, Got R, Petavy AF. Echinococcus multilocularis: comparative study of glycogen synthase in metacestodes and in the livers of infected and control Meriones unguiculatus. Exp Parasitol 1988; 66:1-6. [PMID: 3130271 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(88)90043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A comparative study of the kinetic parameters of glycogen synthase was performed on Echinococcus multilocularis metacestodes and on the livers of infected and control host (Meriones unguiculatus). The enzyme of the parasite was found to be different from the enzyme of infected host liver. The apparent Km for UDP-glucose is 100 microM for the parasite and 400 microM for the host liver. The apparent Km for glucose 6-phosphate is 4 mM for the parasite and 2 mM for the host liver. The apparent Km for glycogen is 16 mg/ml for the parasite and 125 mg/ml for the host liver. The influence of glucose 6-phosphate and exogenous glycogen on the activity of glycogen synthase differs between the metacestode and the host liver. The enzyme of the metacestodes apparently does not need exogenous glycogen to work, contrary to the case for the liver host enzyme. The glycogen synthase of the parasite seems to be present in forms I and D, whereas the enzyme of the host liver appears in form I and that of the control liver in form D.
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- M E Sarciron
- Département de Parasitologie et Pathologie Exotique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UER Faculté de Pharmacie), Villeurbanne, France
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Dubinina GN, Kovalenko FP, Makarevich NI, Novikova NN. [Changes in the activity of blood and urine enzymes in cotton rats experimentally infected with larval alveococci]. Med Parazitol (Mosk) 1981; 50:21-4. [PMID: 7029240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Faradji B, Vessal M, Ghalambor MA. Partial purification and properties of ovine liver hydatid cyst fluid and healthy ovine liver phosphoglucose isomerases. Clin Chim Acta 1974; 53:299-304. [PMID: 4847105 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(74)90268-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Devi CS, Tarachand P, Devi SL, Kumari GS, Reddy CR. Chemical analysis of hydatid cyst fluid in relation to the presence or absence of live scolices. Indian J Med Sci 1971; 25:460-3. [PMID: 5167806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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