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The anthelmintic efficacy of natural plant cysteine proteinases against Hymenolepis microstoma in vivo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2014

F. Mansur ,
W. Luoga ,
D.J. Buttle ,
I.R. Duce ,
A. Lowe  and
J.M. Behnke
F. Mansur
Affiliation:
School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
W. Luoga
Affiliation:
School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK Department of Life Sciences, Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa, Tanzania
D.J. Buttle
Affiliation:
Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
I.R. Duce
Affiliation:
School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
A. Lowe
Affiliation:
School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
J.M. Behnke*
Affiliation:
School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
*
*Fax: 44 115 951 3251 E-mail: jerzy.behnke@nottingham.ac.uk
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Abstract

Little is known about the efficacy of cysteine proteinases (CP) as anthelmintics for cestode infections in vivo. Hymenolepis microstoma is a natural parasite of house mice, and provides a convenient model system for the assessment of novel drugs for anthelmintic activity against cestodes. The experiments described in this paper indicate that treatment of H. microstoma infections in mice with the supernatant of papaya latex (PLS), containing active cysteine proteinases, is only minimally efficacious. The statistically significant effects seen on worm burden and biomass showed little evidence of dose dependency, were temporary and the role of cysteine proteinases as the active principles in PLS was not confirmed by specific inhibition with E-64. Worm fecundity was not affected by treatment at the doses used. We conclude also that this in vivo host–parasite system is not sensitive enough to be used reliably for the detection of cestocidal activity of compounds being screened as potential, novel anthelmintics.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 89 , Issue 5 , September 2015 , pp. 601 - 611
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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