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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Part I¡GCharacterization of humoral immune responses of mice infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis Part II¡GAnalysis on the cranial morphology of mice infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Yang, Zhi-Ya 10 September 2002 (has links)
Abstract -1 The immune response occurred in the mice infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis was mainly humoral immune response. This study was designed to compare the systemic and localized humoral immune responses occurred after primary and secondary infections in C57BL/6J mice. Eight weeks after the primary infection with 20 third-stage larvae, each mouse received a second inoculation of the same dosage. Specific serum IgM, IgG and IgE were found in the second week after primary infection. However, the titers of IgG1 and IgG2b increased at the fourth week after primary infection. Antibodies of these mentioned increased continuously as the progress of infection. On the other hand, the IgM and IgG1 titers increased in brain tissue infusion since the forth week after primary infection, while the titer of IgG start to elevate at the sixth week. Nevertheless, the increase of IgG2B was only noticed at the sixth week and no significant change was observed for IgG2a and IgE. After the secondary infection, serum IgM titers increased while the titer of IgG1 in the brain tissue infusion decreased. Results of Western blot showed that IgG1and IgE in the brain tissue infusion lost the ability to recognize a 42 kDa molecule of the somatic and excreting-secreting antigens of fifth-stage larvae. These variations could be used in the diagnosis of the early stage of mice that re-infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Abstract -2 The radiographic lateral views of the skulls of the mice infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis were taken. Thus, the parietofrontal index ( PI ) was obtained by measuring and calculating the distances among specific positions on their skulls. Compared with the controls, a significant elevation over the top of the crania of the cases was observed sixty days post-infection. In addition, the phenomenon emerged apparently during the second to the fourth week post-infection. These findings are able to be applied as the external diagnostic references for the infection course of mice infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

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