The liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica, infects a wide range of mammals including humans and leads to chronic disease. Like other helminths, F. hepatica migrates and survives in the host tissues after penetrating the intestinal wall to enter the peritoneal cavity, and then migrates through the liver before finally inhabiting the bile ducts. To avoid the antihelminthic immune response during migration, F. hepatica releases excretory–secretory products (FhESP) that exert various immunomodulatory effects, such as alternative macrophage activation or programmed cell death induction. Here, we describe the currently available techniques for studying macrophage activation and apoptotic cell death triggered by purified FhESP originating from the adult F. hepatica fluke.
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Guasconi, L., Serradell, M. C., Masih, D. T., & Chiapello, L. S. (2020). Immunomodulatory effect of Fasciola hepatica excretory–secretory products on macrophages. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2137, pp. 117–131). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0475-5_9
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