Haemolymph lectin and the maturation of trypanosome infections in tsetse
作者:
SUSAN WELBURN,
IAN MAUDLIN,
期刊:
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 1
页码: 43-48
ISSN:0269-283X
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2915.1990.tb00258.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Tsetse;trypanosomes;lectins;haemolymph;Glossina m.morsitans;Glossina p.palpalis;Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense;Trypanosoma congolense
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT.The tsetse immune system has recently been shown to be involved in trypanosome maturation; lectin secreted in the midgut, normally responsible for preventing the establishment of midgut infections, induces established midgut trypanosomes to mature. We now show that a second lectin, present in tsetse haemolymph, is essential to complete the maturation process. Interactions between tsetse lectins and parasite surface coats probably determine trypanosome transmissibility and may be partly responsible for the distribution of trypanosomiasis in Africa.
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