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Interference of hemozoin formation in Schistosoma mansoni by quinine reduces experimental schistosomiasis


ABSTRACT: Background: The parasitic trematode Schistosoma mansoni is one of the major causative agents of human schistosomiasis, which afflicts 200 million people worldwide. Praziquantel is still the only drug used for schistosomiasis treatment and reduction in drug efficiency has prompting the search for new therapeutic compounds against this disease. Our group has demonstrated that heme crystallization into hemozoin (Hz) within S. mansoni gut is a major heme detoxification route involving lipid droplets in this process and acting as a potential chemotherapeutical target. In the present work, we investigated the effects of the antimalarial quinine (QN) in a murine schistosomiasis model by using a combination of biochemical, cell biology and molecular biology approaches. Methodology/Principal Findings: Treatment of S. mansoni-infected female Swiss mice with daily intraperitoneal injections of QN (75mg/kg/day) from 11th to 17th day after infection decreased not only total, males and females worm burden (46.2 %-51.0 %), eggs production, but also the granulomatous reaction to parasite eggs trapped in the liver. These effects correlated with a significant impairment of Hz production (40%) specifically in S. mansoni females, being parallel to remarkable ultrastructural changes in female worms, particularly in the gut epithelium. Microarray gene expression analysis indicated that QN treatment increased the expression of transcripts related to musculature, protein synthesis and repair mechanisms. Conclusions: The overall significant reduction in several disease burden parameters by QN treatment indicates that interference of Hz formation in S. mansoni is a valid chemotherapeutical target for development of new antischistosomal drugs.

ORGANISM(S): Schistosoma mansoni

PROVIDER: GSE14751 | GEO | 2009/07/13

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA112241

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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