The effect of the suckling stimulus on the migration of Strongyloides ratti in lactating rats

Author:

Wilson P. A. G.

Abstract

The number of adult Strongyloides ratti which developed in the guts of lactating rats after subcutaneous injection of 4000 L3 on day 18–20 post partum was taken to be a measure of the relative importance of alternative larval routes. When injection was carried out at different times before and after weaning, larvae were diverted from a route bypassing the gut in nursing mothers to one leading to the gut (‘migration reversal’) in mothers without young in a period of less than 10 h. Migration reversal was mostly completed in lactating females injected at the time of weaning when compared with nulliparous controls. A stimulus-sensitive period shortly after injection, predicted from these dynamics, was demonstrated. Worms injected into lactating females 10 h after removal from their pups showed complete migration reversal. In similarly treated rats, given 1 h suckling 3 h after injection, migration reversal was practically abolished. These inter-relationships, in conjunction with earlier findings, are used to deduce the possible humoral mechanisms involved and to develop a working hypothesis to account for larval orientation based on features of the mammalian pulmonary microvasculature.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Animal Science and Zoology,Parasitology

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