The ultrastructure of Entamoeba histolytica locomotion
Por:
Gimenez-Scherer J.A., Noriega R., Rico G., Merchant M.T., Kretschmer R.R.
Publicada:
1 ene 1996
Resumen:
This quantitative ultrastructural survey of E. histolytica locomotion in Boyden chambers supports the concept that this parasite is capable of random, chemokinetic and chemotactic motility. An E. histolytica committed to chemotaxis will flatten over the filter, accumulate smaller vacuoles at the front of the cell, and will also project pseudopods and its polarized body towards and alongside the chemoattractant axis, respectively. Other cell features such as cell polarization, membrane ruffling, hyaline, total number of pseudopods and caudal displacement of the nucleus appear to be associated with the locomotion efforts as such, perhaps reflecting speed (chemokinesis) but irrespective of orientation (chemotaxis). Finally, only one of the 11 features that were analyzed (i.e., number of vacuoles) failed to be distinctly associated with any of the movement forms studied. E. histolytica appears to possess the full repertoire of locomotion modalities observed in free moving eukaryots, and its motility translates into ultrastructural landmarks that could be useful indicators of subcellular events related to locomotion.
Filiaciones:
Gimenez-Scherer J.A.:
Unidad Invest. Medica en Inmunologia, Hospital de Pediatria, CMN Siglo XXI, IMSS, Aptdo. Postal 73-032, 03020 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Noriega R.:
Unidad Invest. Medica en Inmunologia, Hospital de Pediatria, CMN Siglo XXI, IMSS, Aptdo. Postal 73-032, 03020 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Rico G.:
Unidad Invest. Medica en Inmunologia, Hospital de Pediatria, CMN Siglo XXI, IMSS, Aptdo. Postal 73-032, 03020 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Merchant M.T.:
Unidad Invest. Medica en Inmunologia, Hospital de Pediatria, CMN Siglo XXI, IMSS, Aptdo. Postal 73-032, 03020 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Kretschmer R.R.:
Unidad Invest. Medica en Inmunologia, Hospital de Pediatria, CMN Siglo XXI, IMSS, Aptdo. Postal 73-032, 03020 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
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