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Studies on the effects of azadirachtin treatment, ecdysone supplementation and ecdysone therapy on both the ultrastructural organization of the rectum in 5th-instar nymph of Rhodnius prolixus and the ex vivo attachment behavior of Trypanosoma cruzi under these experimental conditions were carried out. Control insects had a typical and significant organization of the rectum cuticle consisted of four main layers (procuticle, inner epicuticle, outer epicuticle, and wax layer) during the entire period of the experiment. Both azadirachtin treatment and ecdysone supplementation avoid the development of both outer epicuticle and wax layer. Oral therapy with ecdysone partially reversed the altered organization and induce the development of the four main rectal cuticle layers. In the same way, the ex vivo attachment of T. cruzi to rectal cuticle was blocked by azadirachtin treatment but ecdysone therapy also partially recovered the parasite adhesion rates to almost those detected in control insects. These results point out that ecdysone may be a factor responsible - directly or indirectly - by the modulation of rectum ultrastructural arrangement providing a superficial wax layer to the attachment followed by metacyclogenesis of T. cruzi in the rectum of its invertebrate hosts. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Duclécio Mendonça Lopes, Aluízio Fonseca Provençano, Cícero Brasileiro Mello, Denise Feder, José Mauricio Albuquerque Albuquerque Cunha, Nadir Francisca Sant'Anna, Guilherme Curty Lechuga, Saulo Cabral Bourguignon, Wanderley de Souza, Eloi de Souza Garcia, Evelize Folly, Patrícia Azambuja, Marcelo Salabert Gonzalez. Ecdysone modulates both ultrastructural arrangement of hindgut and attachment of Trypanosoma cruzi DM 28c to the rectum cuticle of Rhodnius prolixus fifth-instar nymph. Experimental parasitology. 2022 May-Jun;236-237:108247

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