Host-parasite interface

Semnani RT, Law M, Kubofeik J, Nutman TB Filaria-induced immune evasion suppression by the infective stage of Brugia malayi at the earliest host-parasite interface. J Immunol 2004 172 6229-6238. 

Yoshino, T.P., Boyle, J.P. and Humphries, J.E. (2001) Receptor-ligand interactions and cellular signalling at the host-parasite interface. Parasitology 123, SI 43—SI 57. 

Engelkirk, P.G. and Williams, J.F. (1982) Taenia taeniaeformis (Cestoda) in the rat ultrastructure of the host-parasite interface on days 1 to 7 postinfection, journal of Parasitology 68, 620-633. 

Walker, M., Baz, A., Dematteis, S., Stettler, M., Gottstein, B., Schaller, J. and Hemphill, A. (2004) Isolation and characterization of a secretory component of Echinococcus multilocularis metacestodes potentially involved in modulating the host-parasite interface. Infection and Immunity 72, 527-536. 

It is self-evident that the immediate areas of contact of the cestode with its host - i.e. the host-parasite interface - is one of great physiological interest and its ultrastructure and biochemical activities have received much attention (459, 462, 622, 623, 624). 

The various mechanisms involved in the uptake of low molecular substances by the cestode surface and the enzyme activities at the host-parasite interface are discussed further in Chapters 5 and 6. The uptake of macromolecules by endocytosis is discussed on pp. 14 and 44. 

Although it is beyond the scope of this text to deal with these mechanisms in detail, because they operate at both surfaces of the host-parasite interface, i.e. at the mucosal and cestode surfaces, they have a special significance in the study of cestode physiology. For this reason they are summarised briefly below. 

Platyhelminth host-parasite interface. In Biology of the integument. I. Invertebrates, ed. J. Bereiter-Hahn, A. G. Matolosky K. S. Richards, pp. 192-204. Springer-Verlag Berlin. 

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