Title
Evaluation of Western blot technique for detection of antigens of Hymenolepis nana
Other title
Evaluación de la técnica Western blot para la detección de antígenos de Hymenolepis nana
Date Issued
01 December 2007
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
Enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay or "Western blot" was evaluated to detect specific excretory/secretory antigens from Hymenolepis nana using sera from patient with hymenolepiosis and other confirmed helminthiosis. Hymenolepis nana adults were obtained from experimentally infected golden hamster, the parasits were cultured in Minimum Essential Medium Eagle to get excretory/secretory antigens which were faced to a pool of sera from patients with confirmed hymenolepiosis to evaluate its immunological quality and with individual sera from patients with hymenolepiosis and other confirmed helminthiosis to detect by mean "Western blot" technique, this parasite specific antigens. The pool of sera from patients with confirmed hymenolepiosis recognized seven antigenic bands; 50,1; 42,6; 38.9; 26,3; 22,4; and 18,6 kDa; however, the individual sera recognized different number of bands being 50,1 kDa band the most recognized by all of them. The sera from patients with confirmed helminthiosis did not recognized 50,1 KDa band; however they gave cross reaction with some of the other bands, except the sera from patients with cysticercosis which did not recognized any of this antigen bands. Consequently 50,1 kDa antigen is specific because is recognized by all the sera from patients with confirmed hymenolepiosis and is not rec-ognized by sera from patients with other helminthiosis using "Western blot" technique.
Start page
283
End page
286
Volume
14
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología
Parasitología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77956539885
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sources of information:
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