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ArticleJournal of immunological methods2012

Standardization of a fluorescent-based quantitative adhesion assay to study attachment of Taenia solium oncosphere to epithelial cells in vitro.

Nancy Chile, Julio Evangelista, Robert H Gilman, Yanina Arana, Sandra Palma, Charles R Sterling, Hector H Garcia, Armando Gonzalez, Manuela Verastegui

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Article in Journal of immunological methods, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nancy ChileLaboratory of Infectious Diseases Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, School of Sciences and Philosophy Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, PO Box 5045, Lima, Peru.
Julio Evangelista
Robert H Gilman
Yanina Arana
Sandra Palma
Charles R Sterling
Hector H Garcia
Armando Gonzalez
Manuela Verastegui
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia · PENational University of San Marcos · PEUniversity of Arizona · US

Funding

Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center @ Vanderbilt-AAMCR24TW007988 · FIC · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI VERMUND, STEN H. · 2007 to 2011
$27.6M
Training in Parasitic Diseases and Central Nervous System Infections in Peru.D43TW001140 · FIC · UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA · PI GARCIA, HECTOR HUGO, GILMAN, ROBERT H · 1999 to 2025
$5.7M
Infectious Diseases Training Program in PeruD43TW006581 · FIC · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GILMAN, ROBERT H · 2003 to 2012
$2.4M
FIC NIH HHS 5D43TW006581FIC NIH HHS D43 TW001140FIC NIH HHS D43 TW001140FIC NIH HHS D43 TW006581FIC NIH HHS R24 TW007988Wellcome Trust 091077
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To fully understand the preliminary stages of Taenia solium oncosphere attachment in the gut, adequate tools and assays are necessary to observe and quantify this event that leads to infection. A fluorescent-based quantitative adhesion assay, using biotinylated activated-oncospheres and monolayers of Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-K1) or human intestinal monolayer cells (INT-407, HCT-8 or HT-29), was developed to study initial events during the infection of target cells and to rapidly quantify the in vitro adhesion of T. solium oncospheres. Fluorescein streptavidin was used to identify biotinylated activated-oncospheres adhered to cells. This adherence was quantified using an automated fluorescence plate reader, and the results were expressed as fluorescence intensity values. A series of three assays were performed. The first was to identify the optimum number of biotinylated activated-oncospheres to be used in the adhesion assay. The goal of the second assay was to validate this novel method with the established oncosphere-binding system using the immunofluorescent-antibody assay (IFA) method to quantify oncosphere adhesion. A total of 10,000 biotinylated activated-oncospheres were utilized to assess the role of sera and laminin (LM) in oncosphere adherence to a CHO-K1 cell monolayer. The findings that sera and LM increase the adhesion of oncospheres to monolayer cells were similar to results that were previously obtained using the IFA method. The third assay compared the adherence of biotinylated activated-oncospheres to different types of human intestinal monolayer cells. In this case, the fluorescence intensity was greatest when using the INT-407 cell monolayer. We believe this new method of quantification offers the potential for rapid, large-scale screening to study and elucidate specific molecules and mechanisms involved in oncosphere-host cell attachment.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiotinylationCell AdhesionCHO CellsCricetinaeEpithelial CellsFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHT29 CellsHumansTaenia solium

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PMID22178422
PMCPMC3790662
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