Tegumental disruption with Triton X-100 and its effects on longitudinal muscle function in male Schistosoma mansoni.
Longitudinal muscles in adult male Schistosoma mansoni appear to remain in almost all respects functional after tegumental disruption by Triton X-100. Responses to high K+, ouabain, low temperature, praziquantel and neurotransmitters are still present. Muscle membrane potentials remain near those of control animals and lanthanum nitrate is still excluded from the muscle after the Triton treatment. Although muscle contractility remains after tegumental disruption, sodium and calcium levels, as measured by plasma emission spectroscopy, increase by 20-30% while potassium and magnesium levels decrease by 15%. 45Ca2+ accumulation is double that of control animals. Upon exposure to a bathing medium lacking Ca2+, Triton-treated animals lose responsiveness to high K+, ouabain, low temperature and praziquantel more rapidly than do control animals. D-600, which effectively blocks the high K+ response in control animals, has no measurable effect on the high K+ response in Triton-treated animals, suggesting that voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels are present in the tegument.
D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D005711:Gallopamil / Q000494:pharmacology; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000378:metabolism; D008274:Magnesium / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D017830:Octoxynol; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011188:Potassium / Q000032:analysis; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D012964:Sodium / Q000032:analysis
D007473:Ion Channels; D005711:Gallopamil; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols; D017830:Octoxynol; D012964:Sodium; D008274:Magnesium; D011188:Potassium; D002118:Calcium