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In vitro cultivation of Trypanosoma congolense bloodstream forms in the absence of feeder cell layers.

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:Bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma congolense (2 clones: ILNat3.1 and IL3000, and 4 stocks: IL2079, IL2466, IL3266 and CP-81) were continuously cultivated in vitro at 34-36 degrees C in the absence of feeder cell layers, using HMI-93 medium which was modified from Iscove's modified Dulbecco's MEM (Flow Laboratories, Irvine, Scotland). The modification was done by supplementing the medium with 0.05 mM bathocuproine sulphonate, 1.5 mM L-cysteine, 0.5 mM hypoxanthine, 0.12 mM 2-mercaptoethanol, 1 mM sodium pyruvate, 0.16 mM thymidine, 20% (v/v) heat-inactivated young goat serum and 5% (v/v) Serum Plus (Hazleton Biologics, Lenaxa, KS, USA). Trypanosomes obtained from two different sources were used to initiate primary cultures: (1) metacyclic forms which were produced in vitro at 27 degrees C, and (2) bloodstream forms obtained from Balb/c mice which had been infected with the bloodstream forms transformed in vitro from the metacyclic forms. Metacyclic forms placed in 25 cm2 T-type (T-25) flasks rapidly attached to the bottom of the flasks and transformed to bloodstream forms during the initial 24 h and continued to proliferate. The bloodstream forms isolated from the infected mouse blood by means of diethylaminoethyl cellulose (DE52) column chromatography also continued to proliferate in the flasks. Cultures were maintained by replacing the medium every 24 h. Every 4-5 days, the attached bloodstream forms were resuspended in fresh medium by gentle pipetting and then were subcultured. The method was further simplified by initiating primary cultures directly with 10 microliters of the tail blood of infected mice in 24-well culture plates and then by subcultivating either in wells or in T-25 flasks. The shortest population doubling time, 9 h, was achieved by seeding subcultures with 10(6) bloodstream forms/ml. The bloodstream forms propagated in this system were morphologically similar to those seen in infected mouse blood, they were covered with a surface coat as examined by electron microscopy and they were infective to mice.

journal_name

Parasitology

journal_title

Parasitology

authors

Hirumi H,Hirumi K

doi

10.1017/s0031182000062533

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-04-01 00:00:00

pages

225-36

eissn

0031-1820

issn

1469-8161

journal_volume

102 Pt 2

pub_type

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In vitro cultivation of Trypanosoma congolense bloodstream forms in the absence of feeder cell layers.