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Activity of detoxifying and antioxidant enzymes in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) during invasion by trematode cercariae

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A comparative analysis of changes of detoxifying and antioxidant enzyme activities was carried out in the body homogenate of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Molluscs with the shell size of 4–6 mm infested with cercariae of one (Echinopharipjium aconiatum, E. recurvatum or Moliniella anceps) or two (E. aconiatum + M. anceps or E. aconiatum + E. recurvatum or M. anceps + E. recurvatum) trematode species. It has been reveled that activities of detoxifying and antitoxidant enzymes in the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis body change at invasion with trematodes and that the character of the changes depends on the stage of development of the trematodes in the host body, the variant of infestation (monoinvasion or mixed infestation), and the species of the parasite. The first 2 h after penetration of the trematode cercariae into the mollusc tissues is accompanied by an increase of activities of the detoxifying and antioxidant enzymes. During the long coexistence of metacercariae in the host body (no less than for 13 days), activities of non-specific esterases and glutathione-S-transferase decrease, while the superoxide dismutase activity increases.

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    Yu. A. Vorontsova, N. I. Yurlova, S. N. Vodyanitskaya & V. V. Glupov

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Original Russian Text © Yu. A. Vorontsova, N. I. Yurlova, S. N. Vodyanitskaya, V. V. Glupov, 2010, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 24–29.

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Vorontsova, Y.A., Yurlova, N.I., Vodyanitskaya, S.N. et al. Activity of detoxifying and antioxidant enzymes in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) during invasion by trematode cercariae. J Evol Biochem Phys 46, 28–34 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093010010032

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