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Ortiz, M., (2021). Disbiosis intestinal producida por excretado-secretado de fasciola hepatica, independiente de ácidos biliares [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9465
Ortiz, M., Disbiosis intestinal producida por excretado-secretado de fasciola hepatica, independiente de ácidos biliares []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9465
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title = "Disbiosis intestinal producida por excretado-secretado de fasciola hepatica, independiente de ácidos biliares",
author = "Ortiz Cáceres, María Carolina",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2021"
}
Fascioliasis is a disease caused by Fasciola hepatica, a globally distributed parasite. The helminth enters through the digestive system and settles in the bile ducts. In the chronic phase, the infection causes liver disease. The parasite can reside in the liver for decades, as it has generated mechanisms to evade the host immune system. For example, its excretory-secretory products (ESPs) inhibit the antigen-presenting capacity of dendritic cells, T-cell activation and proinflammatory responses. This would suggest that the parasite influences different organs through the release of ESPs into the circulatory system. In that sense, the liver-gut-microbiota axis might be altered if a pathogen can modulate the gut immune response. However, it has been determined that liver conditions such as cirrhosis and hepatocarcinoma - both consequences of fasciolasis - generate intestinal dysbiosis due to a change in the composition of bile acids, an important microbiota regulator. However, it is unknown whether or how F. hepatica ESPs can alter the intestinal microbiota. Since F. hepatica ESPs have a systemic effect, it is likely that this modulation also occurs at the intestinal level, as its components, that have been shown to modulate the immune response, are transported through the bloodstream and bile ducts to the intestine. Likewise, other intestinal helminths can affect the microbiota by means of their ESPs. Therefore, the present work will analyze the ability of F. hepatica ESPs to generate dysbiosis, independent of the effect of bile acids. To confirm that both the alteration in the abundance and composition of the gut microbiota are explained, at least partially, by the transport of the ESPs through the circulatory system, two approaches are proposed: first, to inject F. hepatica ESPs into mice for a given period, and to analyze the fecal contents to determine the gut microbiota composition before and after injection. In addition, to isolate the effect of ESPs release into the bloodstream during an in vivo infection from other local or systemic effects, we propose to evaluate the change in the microbiota using a parabiotic system with infected and uninfected mice.
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