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      Significance of bile-duct changes in schistosomiasis Translated title: Significado das lesões dos ductos biliares na esquistossomose

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          Lesions involving the intra-hepatic biliary ducts in schistosomiasis have been reported in the literature, both in mice and man, but there are no data concerning their quantitative, evolutionary or post curative chemotherapeutic aspects on record. In order to obtain such data an investigation on this subject was attempted. Mice infected with 50 Schistosoma mansoni cercariae were submitted to a liver biopsy at the 9th week post-infection, and treated with 400mg/bw praziquantel immediately afterwards. Infected and non-infected controls were submitted to the same procedures. By 19 weeks from cercarial exposure all surviving animals were sacrificed. The biliary ducts were counted on histological sections and the results were expressed as biliary ducts/portal spaces. This quantitative evaluation was compared with that from normal controls and revealed hyperplasia as the main biliary duct change (p<0.007) in schistosomiasis. Hyperplastic changes underwent only mild partial and not statistically significant regression after specific chemotherapy (p>0.05). Infected and untreated animals presented ductal changes that did not differ from those of the treated group. Measurements of serum bilirrubin (total and direct), and gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase (gamma-GT) did not reveal significant differences when animals from the several groups were compared. Thus, bile ducts exhibit a proliferative response in relation to neighboring S. mansoni injury to portal areas, but although these lesions are histopathologically impressive, they lack a functional or prognostic significance.

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          A literatura registra que os ductos biliares intra-hepáticos são lesados no curso da esquistossomose, tanto experimental como humana, mas não existe avaliação quantitativa de tais lesões nos vários estágios da infecção, nem da sua repercussão funcional ou do seu comportamento frente ao tratamento curativo da parasitose. Para avaliar estes parâmetros, os camundongos com infecção por 50 cercárias do Schistosoma mansoni foram submetidos à biópsia hepática na fase recente da infecção (9 semanas) e, em seguida, os animais foram tratados com praziquantel (400mg/kg pc). Controles infectados e não infectados foram incluídos. Durante a 19ª semana pós-infecção todos os animais foram sacrificados. A contagem dos ductos biliares revelou a presença de uma hiperplasia ductal nos animais infectados em relação aos controles intactos (p<0,007), a qual não regrediu significativamente após a terapia antiparasitária (p>0,05). Animais infectados e não tratados exibiram lesões ductais que não diferiram quantitativa ou qualitativamente dos tratados. As concentrações séricas de bilirrubinas (total e direta) e gama-glutamil-transpeptidase (gama-GT) não mostraram diferenças significativas para os animais dos vários grupos. Em conclusão, os ductos biliares mostram uma resposta proliferativa face às alterações de vizinhança provocadas pelo S. mansoni nos espaços porta mas, embora bem evidentes histopatologicamente, tais lesões carecem de significado funcional ou prognóstico.

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          Experimental models of Schistosoma mansoni infections in mammals have contributed greatly to our understanding of the pathology and pathogenesis of infection. We consider here hepatic and extrahepatic disease in models of acute and chronic infection. Experimental schistosome infections have also contributed more broadly to our understanding of granulomatous inflammation and our understanding of Th1 versus Th2 related inflammation and particularly to Th2-mediated fibrosis of the liver.
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            Diagnostic and therapeutic implications of bile duct injury in autoimmune hepatitis.

            Bile duct injury is not a feature of classical autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), but it has been described in variant forms of the disease. Our goals were to assess the similarity of AIH with bile duct injury to classical disease and to evaluate the possibility of concurrent primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Fifteen patients with bile duct injury were compared with 151 patients with classical AIH. Patterns of nuclear immunofluorescence and the frequency and nature of autoantibodies associated with AIH and PBC were determined. Patients with bile duct injury had the same nuclear-staining patterns, frequency and nature of autoantibodies, and genetic risk factors as the comparison group. Features specific for PBC, including the multiple nuclear dot pattern of immunofluorescence and antibodies to the M2 antigens, Sp100 and nuclear pore complex antigen, gp210, did not distinguish them from classical disease. Remission and treatment failure occurred with similar frequencies in both groups. Patients with AIH and bile duct injury lack features of PBC, and they respond as well to corticosteroid therapy as patients with classical disease. Background bile duct changes should not alter the diagnosis or treatment of AIH. Copyright Blackwell Munksgaard 2004
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              Um estudo comparativo das cepas Feira de Santana (Bahia) e Porto Rico do Schistosoma Mansoni na infecção experimental do camundongo

              Dois grupos de camundongos, infectados com cem cercárias do S. mansoni, um com a cepa Porto Rico e outro com a cepa Feira de Santana mostraram resultados semelhantes quanto à recuperação de esquistossômulos pulmonares, recuperação de vermes do sistema porta, número de ovos por grama de tecido no figado e intestinos, lesões histopatológicas e mortalidade. Na realidade as diferenças entre animais infectados pela mesma cepa foram maiores que quando os dados conjuntos das duas cepas foram considerados.
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                Journal
                rsbmt
                Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
                Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.
                Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT (Uberaba )
                1678-9849
                December 2005
                : 38
                : 6
                : 464-468
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidade Federal da Bahia Brazil
                [2 ] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brazil
                Article
                S0037-86822005000600003
                10.1590/S0037-86822005000600003
                405bda8e-fd37-4a51-8575-4a336f82480e

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                Categories
                TROPICAL MEDICINE

                Infectious disease & Microbiology
                Schistosoma mansoni,Hepatic schistosomiasis,Bile ducts,Esquistossomose hepática,Ductos biliares

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