Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 3-4, Pages 275-285Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.10.002
Keywords
Trichinella spiralis; Cytoskeleton; Primary myoblasts cultures; Transcription
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Mexico
- CONACYT [27975]
- [SIP 20161165]
- [20170647]
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Trichinella spiralis infection in skeletal muscle culminates with nurse cell formation. The participation of excretory-secretory products of the muscle larvae has been implicated in this process through different studies performed in infected muscle and the muscle cell line C2C12. In this work, we developed primary myoblast cultures to analyse the changes induced by excretory-secretory products of the muscle larvae in muscle cells. Microarray analyses revealed expression changes in muscle cell differentiation, proliferation, cytoskeleton organisation, cell motion, transcription, cell cycle, apoptosis and signalling pathways such as MAPK, Jak-STAT, Wnt and PI3K-Akt. Some of these changes were further evaluated by other methodologies such as quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and western blot, confirming that excretory-secretory products of the muscle larvae treated primary mouse myoblasts undergo increased proliferation, decreased expression of MHC and up-regulation of alpha-actin. In addition, changes in relevant muscle transcription factors (Pax7, Myf5 and Mef2c) were observed. Taken together, these results provide new information about how T. spiralis could alter the normal process of skeletal muscle repair after ML invasion to accomplish nurse cell formation. (C) 2017 Australian Society for Parasitology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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