The role of genetic and ecological factors in development of resistant phenotype in mice during experimental trichinelliasis
Burak, I.I.
Genetika 26(7): 1195-1202
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-6758 PMID: 2227400 Document Number: 365281
The role of genetic (genes for wool, eyes colour, X and Y chromosomes, H-2 haplotype) and ecological (contamination intensity leading to strengthening of illness) factors in forming phenotype of resistance in mice under experimental trichinelliasis is studied. The experiments have been performed on male and female mice CBA/Ca, BALB/c, C57/BL/6J, DBA/2J, C3HA/Mv, CC57BR/Mv, CC577W/Mv and hybrids /C57BL/6J x CBA/Ca/F having 19-25 g mass each, which were infected with trichinella larvae of Byelorussian laboratory "strains" in dosage of 5, 20, 35 and 70 units per 1 g body mass. The intensity of intestine invasion, the level of free histamine in the liver, the index of inhibition of spleen leucocyte migration on the 7th day and intensity of muscle invasion on the 30th day after contamination were defined. The analysis of the results of the study allowed to formulate the following points of regularity of trichinella resistance phenotype formation in mice: 1. The phenotype is formed as the result of interaction of genetic and ecological factors. 2. Mice of different genotypes form different phenotypes of resistance to trichinella. 3. Mice of the same genotypes form different phenotypes of resistance to intestine and muscle trichinella. The problems of inheritance and mechanisms of resistance are discussed.