title: Schistosoma mansoni: host cell adhesion to the different stages of the parasite, in vivo.
abstract: The peritoneal cavity of laboratory mice was used to study the phenomenon of host cell adhesion to different evolutive stages of the Schistosoma mansoni (cercaria, adult worm, developing and mature eggs, miracidium, young and mature daughter sporocysts). Material recovered from the peritoneal cavity 30 and 180 min after the inoculation of each evolutive form was examined with the help of a stereomicroscope. The free swimming larvae (cercaria and miracidium), and the evolutive forms producing such larvae (mature egg and mature daughter sporocyst) elicited the host cell adhesion phenomenon. In all forms but cercariae the adherent cells remained as so till 180 minutes after inoculation.
authors.affiliation: Grupo Interdepartamental de Estudos sobre Esquistossomose/Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciéncias Biológicas da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Machado
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D007814:Larva / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity; D051379:Mice; D010529:Peritoneal Cavity / Q000166:cytology / Q000469:parasitology; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000469:parasitology; D013997:Time Factors