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Larval cestodes and tumors: characterization of antibody response and cross-reactivity
Vajs, Vojtěch ; Horák, Petr (advisor) ; Panská, Lucie (referee)
In recent years there have been developments in research concerning the effect of certain species of helminths on cancer. For example, a preventative infection with these parasites is capable of slowing or completely preventing the development of certain cancers in experimental models. In our preliminary experiments, the suppressive effect of the infection with Taenia crassiceps and Mesocestoides corti on melanoma cancer cells was discovered. Primary infection with these tapeworms has been able to suppress and completely prevent the growth and metastasis of the B16F10 melanoma cell line. Parasites affect the immune system of their hosts with their presence and products. It was therefore the subject of this work to explore one of the ways how these tapeworms may achieve this effect - cross-reactivity of antibodies with tapeworm and cancer cell antigens. First the antibody response of the mouse organism to the tapeworm infection was examined in C57BL/6J inbred and ICR outbred strains. The growth of immunoglobulin levels was measured with ELISA within the first five weeks post infection, upon which the antigens, with which these immunoglobulins react, were specified with the help of Western blot. After this, these reacting antigens were localised in the tapeworm organism with immunohistochemical...

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