TIME-DEPENDENT LOSS OF INVASIVE ABILITY OF PLASMODIUM-BERGHEI MEROZOITES INVITRO
TIME-DEPENDENT LOSS OF INVASIVE ABILITY OF PLASMODIUM-BERGHEI MEROZOITES INVITRO
复制标题
DOI:
10.2307/3280000
复制
发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
MCALISTER, RO
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
MCALISTER, RO
The invasive ability of P. berghei merozoites in vivo was studied following their artificial removal from parasitized mouse red cells using complement-mediated immune lysis in vitro and in vivo. Time-course experiments revealed that lysed preparations contained 2 components contributing to the parasites'' infectivity in mice. One component, presumed to be free merozoites released from mature schizont-infected cells, rapidly lost infectivity with time at 1-2 C. A 2nd minor component appeared to have more stability at this temperature, and could be accounted for as intact parasitized cells containing mature schizonts not lysed by the complement in vitro, but lysed by the recipients'' plasma complement in vivo. Suspension of parasitized cells in an isotonic diluent and centrifugation at moderate speeds substantially removes the number of invasive free merozoites insolable from a given sample of infected blood by immune hemolysis. Merozoites either contained within the confines of mature schizont-infected cells or artificially removed from host cells rapidly lose the ability to invade susceptible erythrocytes in vivo when suspended in an isotonic medium and held at 1-2 C in vitro.