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Detecção da atividade e imunolocalização da enzima óxido nítrico sintase em Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis e Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-10-30) FURTADO, Rodrigo Ribeiro; SILVA, Edilene Oliveira da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7410116802190343
The Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by parasites of the Leishmania genus and are distributed in different parts of the world. This pathology manifests in several clinical forms: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL). The Leishmania parasite presents two evolutionary forms: promastigote form, free life parasite, and amastigotes, intracellular binding, present mainly in the mononuclear phagocytic cells. The growth inhibition or destruction of parasites within the host cell is an essential to break the infection mechanism. Inhibition of macrophage leishmanicidal effect appears to be related to the ability of some species to inhibit the nitric oxide (NO) production. Recent studies have shown that some species of Leishmania have the ability to produce NO by the constitutive form of nitric oxide synthase (cNOS). This work aims to detect and locate the cNOS enzyme present in Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis promastigotes. For this reason, this study used flow cytometry, which allowed to quantify NO production in parasites, indicating the increased activity of the cNOS enzyme in Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis compared with Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis species. We performed immunostaining of promastigotes with anti-cNOS antibody to watch the ultrastructural localization of the enzyme by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), then co-labeling with anti-cNOS and anti-GAPDH antibody to confirm the probable compartmentalization this enzyme in glycossomal organelles. The results suggest that NO production by different strains of Leishmania is a process located in the glycossomal organelles capturing L-arginine from the host cell, the substrate depletion deprives the host to synthesize the harmful exogenous NO to the parasite. This modulation suggests another escape mechanism that trypanosomatid protozoa present in the complex host-parasite interaction.
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Estudo in vitro da infectividade de espécies de Leishmania do subgênero Viannia em macrófagos peritoneais de camundongo BALB/c
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2003) CAMPOS, Marliane Batista; GOMES, Claudia Maria de Castro; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8660496919187291; SILVEIRA, Fernando Tobias; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8106158306299969
Parasites ofthe genus Leishmania show both intra- and inter-specific variations of infectivity. There is little available information, however, regarding the infective behavior of New World species particularly those of the Amazon Region of Brazil, where there occur at six species of the subgenus Viannia causing human cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL). The aim of the present study was to investigate the infectivity of 5 of these species for the peritoneal macrophages of BALB/c mice, and their role in the host-cell's production of nitric oxide (NO). Thirty strains of Leishmania were divided into 6 groups of the fol1owing species: I-L. (V.) braziliensis (from cases of localized skin lesions-LCL); II- L. (V.) braziliensis (from cases of mucocutaneous lesions- LeM); III- L. (V.) guyanensis; IV- L. (V.) shawi; V- L. (V.) naiffi and VI- L. (V.) lainsoni. They were cultivated in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum and 1% penicillin/gentamicin, until reaching the stationary phase of development. These promastigotes were used to infect the macrophage cell cultures, in the proportion of 4 flagellates/macrophage. The cultures were then incubated at 35°C with 5% CO2 and, after 24 hours following inoculation, the corvelips were stained by Giemsa's method to determine the infection index. The nitric oxide (nitrite) concentration was measured in the culture supernatant by Griess' s method to determine the infection index. The nitric oxide (nitrite) concentration was measured in the culture supernatant by Griess' s method. It was found that LCM strains of L. (V.) braziliensis showed the highest infection index (385), significance p<0.05,compared with L. (V.) braziliensis LCL strains (264). L. (V). naiffi and L. (V.) lansoni had the lowest infection indices of (215) and (272), respectively, but, were not significally different from index of L. (V.) guyanensis (300). Rrgarding the NO levels, the highest was that for L. (V.) naiffi (4,1µM), and the lowest for L. (V.) braziliensis-LCM strains (2, 15µM). The other readings were (3,14µM) for L. (V.) lainsoni, 2,96µM for L. (V.) shawi, 2,76µM for L. (V.) guyanensis and 3,1µM for L. (V.) braziliensis-LCL strains. It is conc1uded that L. (V.) natffi. In this way it may be noted the NO levels for infected macrophage were inversely proportional to the degree of infectivity of the species studied.
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Policetídeos isolados de Penicillium herquei
(2011) MARINHO, Anderson Nonato do Rosario; MARINHO, Patrícia Santana Barbosa; RODRIGUES FILHO, Edson; FERREIRA, Izabel Cristina Piloto
In this work we are reporting the isolation of polyketides citreoserine (1), emodin (2), janthinone (3), dihydrocitrinone (4) and citrinin H-1 (5). The compounds were isolated by chromatographic procedures and identified by spectral methods of NMR 1D and 2D and MS. The compounds 1, 2 and 3 were tested against promastigotes of Leishmania brasiliensis.