Vascular phase of Sarcocystis cruzi cultured in vitro
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 64 (1) , 209-211
- https://doi.org/10.1139/z86-033
Abstract
Sporozoites of Sarcocystis cruzi penetrated various established cell lines but developed to meronts in bovine monocytes (BM) and bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells (CPA) only. At 31 to 50 days after sporozoite inoculation, approximately four times more merozoites were harvested from cultures of CPA (72.7 × 106 merozoites) than from BM (16.6 × 106 merozoites). The ability to grow merogonous stages in vitro can now be used to elucidate pathogenetic and immunologic mechanisms associated with infection by Sarcocystis spp.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Development of Ox‐Coyote Cycle of Sarcocystis cruzi1The Journal of Protozoology, 1982