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Abstract

The transmigration of African trypanosomes across the human blood–brain barrier (BBB) is the critical step during the course of human African trypanosomiasis. The parasites and are transmitted to humans during the bite of tsetse flies. Trypanosomes multiply within the bloodstream and finally invade the central nervous system (CNS), which leads to the death of untreated patients. This project focused on the mechanisms of trypanosomal traversal across the BBB. In order to establish a suitable BBB model for parasite transmigration, different human cell lines were used, including ECV304, HBMEC and HUVEC, as well as C6 rat astrocytes. Validation of the BBB models with HB101 and K1 revealed that a combination of ECV304 cells seeded on Matrigel as a semi-synthetic basement membrane and C6 astrocytes resulted in an optimal BBB model system. The BBB model showed selective permeability for the pathogenic K1 strain, and African trypanosomes were able to traverse the optimized ECV304–C6 BBB efficiently. Furthermore, coincubation indicated that paracellular macrophage transmigration does not facilitate trypanosomal BBB traversal. An inverse assembly of the BBB model demonstrated that trypanosomes were also able to transmigrate the optimized ECV304–C6 BBB backwards, indicating the relevance of the CNS as a possible reservoir of a relapsing parasitaemia.

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2011-10-01
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