Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-jbqgn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-03T02:00:53.016Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The ultrastructure of the intestine of the redia of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll (Digenea: Philophthalmidae) from the digestive gland of Nucella lapillus L

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. Gwendolen Rees
F. Gwendolen Rees
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 3D A
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

The intestine of the redia of Parorchis acanthus is lined by a gastrodermis and surrounded by inner longitudinal and outer circular muscles. The gastrodermis consists of alternating rings of dense and lucent cells of similar dimensions, with similar nuclei and with microvilli on the lumenal surface. The dense cells contain ribosomes, dense secretion bodies, vesicles and a few lipid bodies. Ribosomes, dense bodies and lipids are absent from the lucent cells but vesicles are present which, as in the dense cells, pass along the microvilli to be discharged into the lumen. Both types of cells are secretory, absorptive and transportive. The lucent cells, in addition, store glycogen in areas of the cytoplasm devoid of organelles. Tips of processes from the parenchyma cells are engulfed in pockets in the basal plasma membrane, of both, facilitating transport of nutrients from the gastrodermis directly into the parenchyma

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , August 1983 , pp. 159 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Björkman, N. & Thorsell, W. (1964). On the fine structure and resorptive function of the cuticle of the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica L. Experimental Cell Research 33, 319–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bogitsh, B. J. (1972). Cytochemical and biochemical observations on the digestive tract of digenetic trematodes. IX. Megalodiscus temperatus. Experimental Parasitology 32, 244–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bogitsh, B. J., Davis, D. A. & Nunnally, D. A. (1968). Cytochemical and biochemical observations on the digestive tracts of digenetic trematodes. II. Ultrastructural localization of acid phosphatase in Haematoloechus medioplexus. Experimental Parasitology 23, 305–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bruce, J. I., Pezzlo, F., Yajima, Y. & McCarty, J. E. (1971). An electron microscope study of Schistosoma mansoni migration through mouse tissue. Ultrastructure of the gut during the hepatoportal phase of migration. Experimental Parasitology 30, 165–73.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Burton, P. R. (1964). The ultrastructure of the integument of the frog lung-fluke Haematoloechus medioplexus (Trematoda: Plagiorchiidae). Journal of Morphology 115, 305–18.Google Scholar
Davis, D. A., Bogitsh, B. J. & Nunnally, D. A. (1968). Cytochemical and biochemical observations on the digestive tracts of digenetic trematodes. I. Ultrastructure of Haematoloechus medioplexus gut. Experimental Parasitology 22, 96–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davis, D. A., Bogitsh, B. J. & Nunnally, D. A. (1969). Cytochemical and biochemical observations on the digestive tracts of digenic trematodes. III. Non-specific esterase in Haematoloechus medioplexus. Experimental Parasitology 24, 121–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dawes, B. (1962). A histological study of the caecal epithelium of Fasciola hepatica L. Parasitology 52, 483–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dike, S. C. (1967). Ultrastructure of the caeca of the digenetic trematodes Gorgoderina amplicava and Haematoloechus medioplexus. Journal of Parasitology 53, 1173–85.Google Scholar
Dixon, K. E. (1965). The structure and histochemistry of the cyst wall of the metacercaria of Fasciola hepatica L. Parasitology 55, 215–26.Google Scholar
Ebrahimzadeh, A. & Kraft, M. (1969). Ultrastructural studies on the morphology of the cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni. I. The alimentary canal. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 32, 157–75.Google Scholar
Gallagher, S. S. E. & Threadgold, L. T. (1967). Electron microscope studies of Fasciola hepatica. II. The interrelationship of the parenchyma with other organ systems. Parasitology 57, 633–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ginetsinskaya, T. A., Mashanski, V. F. & Dobrovolski, A. A. (1966). Ultrastructure of the wall and method of feeding of rediae and sporocysts (trematodes). Docklady Akademii nauk SSSR 116, 1003–4. (In Russian.)Google Scholar
Gresson, R. A. R. & Threadgold, L. T. (1959). A light and electron microscope study of the epithelial cells of the gut of Fasciola hepatica L. Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical Cytology 6, 157–67.Google Scholar
Halton, D. W. (1966). Occurrence of microvillus-like structures in the gut of digenetic trematodes. Experientia 22, 828–9.Google Scholar
Halton, D. W. (1972). Ultrastructure of the alimentary tract of Aspidogaster conchicola (Trematoda: Aspidogastrea). Journal of Parasitology 58, 455–67.Google Scholar
Krupa, P. L., Bal, A. K. & Cousineatj, G. H. (1967). Ultrastructure of the redia of Cryptocotyle lingua. Journal of Parasitology 53, 725–34.Google Scholar
Køie, M. (1971). On the histochemistry and ultrastructure of the redia of Neophasis lageniformis (Lebour, 1910) (Trematoda, Acanthocolpidae). Ophelia 9, 113–43.Google Scholar
Køie, M. (1973). The host parasite interface and associated structures of the cercaria and adult Neophasis lageniformis (Lebour, 1910). Ophelia 12, 205–9.Google Scholar
Lumsden, R. D. (1965). Macromolecular structure of glycogen in some cyclophyllidean and trypanorhynch cestodes. Journal of Parasitology 51, 501–15.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lumsden, R. D. (1966). Fine structure of the medullary parenchymal cells of a trypanorhynch cestode, Lacistorhynchus tenuis (v. Beneden, 1858) with emphasis on specializations for glycogen metabolism. Journal of Parasitology 52, 417–27.Google Scholar
McDaniel, J. S. & Dixon, K. E. (1967). Utilization of exogenous glucose by the rediae of Parorchis acanthus (Digenea: Philophthalmidae) and Cryptocotyle lingua (Digenea: Hetero- phyidae). Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 133, 591–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mateicon-Gondran, M. (1980). Gap junctions and particle aggregates in the tegumentary syncytium of a trematode. Tissue and Cell 12, 383–94.Google Scholar
Morris, G. R. (1968). Fine structure of the gut epithelium of Schistosoma mansoni. Experientia 24, 480–2.Google Scholar
Pearse, A. G. E. (1961). Histochemistry: Theoretical and Applied, 998 pp., 2nd ed. London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd.Google Scholar
Rees, F. G. (1966). Light and electron microscope studies of the redia of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll. Parasitology 56, 589–602.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rees, F. G. (1980). Surface ultrastructure of the redia of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll (Digenea: Philophthalmidae). Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 63, 33–46.Google Scholar
Rees, F. G. (1981). The ultrastructure of the epidermis of the redia of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll (Digenea: Philophthalmidae). Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 65, 19–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rees, F. G. (1983). The ultrastructure of the fore-gut of the redia of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll (Digenea: Philophthalmidae) from the digestive gland of Nucella lapillus L. Parasitology 87, 151–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reynolds, E. S. (1963). The use of lead citrate at high pH as an electron opaque stain in electron microscopy. Journal of Cell Biology 17, 207–12.Google Scholar
Robinson, G. & Threadgold, L. T. (1975). Electron microscope studies of Fasciola hepatica. XII. The fine structure of the gastrodermis. Experimental Parasitology 37, 20–36.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Senft, A. W., Philpott, D. E. & Pelofsky, A. H. (1961). Electron microscope observations of the integument, flame cells and gut of Schistosoma mansoni. Journal of Parasitology 47, 217–29.Google Scholar
Shannon, L. A. & Bogitsh, B. J. (1969). Cytochemical and biochemical observations on the digestive tracts of digenetic trematodes. V. Ultrastructure of Schistosoma douthitti gut. Experimental Parasitology 26, 344–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Spence, I. M. & Silk, M. H. (1970). Ultrastructural studies of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni. IV. The digestive system. South African Journal of Medical Sciences 35, 93–112.Google Scholar
Thorsell, N. & Björkman, N. (1965). Morphological and biochemical studies on the absorption and secretion in the alimentary tract of Fasciola hepatica L. Journal of Parasitology 51, 217–23.Google Scholar
Threadgold, L. T. (1963). The tegument and associated structures of Fasciola hepatica. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 104, 505–12.Google Scholar
Threadgold, L. T. (1967). Electron microscope studies of Fasciola hepatica. III. Further observations on the tegument and associated structures. Parasitology 57, 633–7.Google Scholar
Threadgold, L. T. & Arme, C. (1974). Electron microscope studies of Fasciola hepatica. XI. Autophagy and parenchymal cell function. Experimental Parasitology 35, 389–405.Google Scholar
Threadgold, L. T. & Brennan, G. (1978). Fasciola hepatica: basal folds and associated vacuoles of the tegument. Experimental Parasitology 46, 300–16.Google Scholar
Threadgold, L. T. & Gallagher, S. S. E. (1966). Electron microscope studies of Fasciola hepatica. I. The ultrastructure and the interrelationship of the parenchymal cells. Parasitology 56, 299–304.Google Scholar
Wotton, R. M. & Sogandares-Baernal, F. (1963). A report on the occurrence of microvillus-like structures in the caeca of certain trematodes. Parasitology 53, 156–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar