Análise bioquímica da niclosamida no metabolismo de cisticercos de Taenia crassiceps

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Marco Vítor Silva de Melo
• Orientador(a): Vinaud, Marina Clare
• Banca de defesa: Vinaud, Marina Clare, Silva, Luciana Damacena, Bezerra, José Clecildo Barreto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia das Interações PH (IPTSP)
• Departamento: Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública - IPTSP (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ácidos orgânicos; Taenia crassiceps; Metabolismo; Niclosamida
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Oganic acids; Taenia crassiceps; Metabolism; Niclosamide
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::PARASITOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4794

Experimental studies with Taenia crassiceps have been used to demonstrate its metabolic alterations in biochemical pathways (energetic and respiratory) in response to the presence of drugs. The use of T. crassiceps as an experimental model offers conditions to reproduce the neurocysticercosis infection one of the most severe form of human cysticercosis. This study aimed the analysis of the in vitro influence of niclosamide, an antihelminthic drug, on the metabolism of carbohydrates and fatty acids of T. crassiceps cysticerci (ORF strain). 20 larval stage cysticerci were cultured into 5mL of RPMI (Gibco) supplemented culture media, in 6 well culture plates, exposed or not to niclosamide (1, 2, and 3 uM). The control groups were performed with cysticerci not exposed to the drug, exposed to ethanol in the concentration used to dissolve the drug. The cysticerci were cultured at 37ºC for 24 hours. After this period the cysticerci were removed from the culture medium and both were frozen with liquid nitrogen. Afterward, the samples were processed for the HPLC analysis. Accordingly to the mode of action of this drug, which is to interfere in the electrons chain transport, the succinate concentrations were altered in the secretion/excretion of this parasite. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that in the concentrations used, this drug caused little alteration in the metabolic pathways of the parasite.