Histochemical localization of esterase activity in schistosomes

Cholinergic components of nervous system of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium (Digenea: Schistosomatidae)

“…Cholinergic innervations of the oral and ventral suckers were demonstrated in other digeneans like S. mansoni and F. hepatica (Fripp 1967;Halton 1967, respectively). Moreover, the oral and ventral sucker of the digeneans, F. hepatica, Haplometra cylindracea, S. mansoni, Corriga vitta, and G. vitelliloba, were reported to be provided with a multiplicity of serotoninergic and peptidergic nervous arising from the ventral nerve cords and anastomosing as plexuses of fine nerves among the muscle bands (Magee et al 1989(Magee et al , 1993McKay et al 1990McKay et al , 1991Skuce et al 1990;Marks et al 1995).…”

“…Concerning the digeneans, the studies included larval and adult forms: larval forms such as larval stages of Schistosoma mansoni (Bruckner and Vage 1974), cercaria of S. mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum (Orido 1989), cercaria of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum (Niewiadomska & Moczon 1982), daughter and mother sporocyst of D. pseudospathaceum (Niewiadomska & Moczon 1990), and sporocysts of S. mansoni (Diconza & Basch 1975) and adult forms, such as S. mansoni (Fripp 1967), Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantic (Prcbert and Durrani 1976), Gorgoderina vitelliloba (McKAY et al 1991), G. vitelliloba and Gorgoderina euzeti (Rahemo 1993), and Haplorchoides cahirinus and Acanthostomum absconditum . The aim of this study is to describe the nervous system of both S. mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium for the first time in detail, using acetylthiocholine iodide enzymatic technique.…”

Histochemical demonstration of esterase in certain freshwater larval trematodes with a note on neuroanatomy

“…Several workers have studied the nervous system by localization of either nonspecific esterase (NSE) or acetylcholinesterase in different adult (Simha and Rao 1977;Rao et al 1981;Choubisa et al 1982;Mishra and Tandon 1984) as well as in certain larval digeneans (Dixon and Mercer 1965;Fripp 1967;Jennings and Leflore 1972;Bruckner and Voge 1974;Diconza and Basch 1975;Krishna and Simha 1979;Leflore ]979; Leflore et al 1980; Grabda and Moczon 1981;Venkatanarsaiah 1981;Choubisa and Sharma In3b). None of these workers have attempted a comparative study on the nervous system of different larval trematode groups.…”

Contribution à l’étude du système nerveux des formes adultes et larvaires de Schistosoma mansoni Sambon, 1907 (Trematoda Digenea)

“…Looss suppose qu'elles sont reliées aux troncs nerveux par de fins faisceaux. Fripp (1967), Bueding et coll. (1967) et Dei-Cas (1976 retrouvent chez Schisto soma le même modèle de système nerveux en mettant en évidence histochimiquement l'activité cholinestérasique du ver adulte.…”