Biochemical Study Of Some Cestodes In Defferent Vertebrate Hosts

AL-Naftajy, MunaTahir

	Biochemical Study Of Some Cestodes In Defferent Vertebrate Hosts
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science
Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 182-187
Author
MunaTahir AL-Naftajy
Abstract
Present study is designed to investigate some biochemical parameters , such as total amount of the protein, DNA, RNA, carbohydrate, total lipid and enzyme's activity such as glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) in the cestodes: Bothriocephalus spp., Ophiotaenia europaea, Raillietina echinobothrida and Moniezia expansa in the vertebrate hosts : feshes , snakes , birds and sheeps , respectively . Results showe that there is a significal increase in concentration of total protein that exists in M. expansa which infect mammals and a significal decrease in Bothriocephalus spp. and O.europaea, respectively, and downed to it's lowest level in R. echinobothrida which infects birds. Also , results show that the highest level of DNA and RNA was in M.expanza and decreased in. Bothriocephalus spp. , O.europaea and R. echinobothrida. The lowest value of carbohydrates is shown in the tapewarms that infect snakes O.europaea and it increased in Bothriocephalus spp., R. echinobothrida and M. expansa (in fishes, birds and sheep respectively).The value of total lipids increased in R. echinobothrida, Bothriocephalus spp , O.europaea. The study revealed the activity of the enzymes as follows: M. expansa has a very high activity of the enzymes: G-6 PDH, GOT. Bothriocephalus spp. has a higher activity of ALP enzyme than other cestode tapeworms, then comes M. expansa in the degree of the activity. GPT activity was somehow approximate in all the cestode tapeworms studied .

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