Effects of schistosomal mansoni infection on Calomys callosus coelom-associated lymphomyeloid tissue (milky spots)
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
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93(supl.1): 13-23, Oct. 1998. ilus
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ABSTRACT
Calomys callosus Rengger, 1830 (Rodentia Cricetidae) is a mouse-like South American wild rodent, which is permissive to Schistosoma mansoni infection. In this paper we studied the effect of schistosomal infection in C. callosus mesenteric and omental milky spots (MS), subsidiary foci of coelom-associated lymphomyeloid tissue (CALT), during the acute, transitional (acute to chronic), and chronic phases of the infection. MS were morphologically analyzed by historical methods, using brightfield and confocal laser scanning microscopies. The MS of infected animals were mainly of lymphomyelocytic (42 to 90 days) and lymphoplasmacytic (160 days of infection) types and showed frequent presence of lymphoid follicles with germinal centers, plasmacytogenesis and plasmacytosis, mastocytosis, megakaryopoiesis, erythropoiesis and less pronounced eosinopoiesis. These results indicate that MS are a preferencial site of germinal-center-dependent and independent plasmacytogenesis, and a bone narrow-like organ, committed with various cellular lineages. The consequence of a C. callosus MS reactivity for schistosomal infection is still unknown and is under investigation.
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Omento
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Roedores
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Sinais e Sintomas
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Esquistossomose mansoni
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Arvicolinae
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Tecido Linfoide
Tipo de estudo:
Fatores de risco
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Animais
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Assunto da revista:
Medicina Tropical
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Parasitologia
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
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