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  • Title: Leishmania amazonensis: long-term cultivation of axenic amastigotes is associated to metacyclogenesis of promastigotes.
    Author: Cysne-Finkelstein L, Temporal RM, Alves FA, Leon LL.
    Journal: Exp Parasitol; 1998 May; 89(1):58-62. PubMed ID: 9603489.
    Abstract:
    Axenic Leishmania amazonensis cultures were obtained (with 2 years of follow-up) in Schneider's medium at pH 5.5 and a temperature of 32 degrees C. Differentiation of promastigotes into amastigotes is directly associated with the metacyclogenesis rate of the original promastigotes. Promastigote cultures containing different percentages of metacyclic forms, as evaluated by the complement lysis test, resulted in axenic amastigote cultures containing a variable amount of undifferentiated forms. We observed that a culture originally containing a large amount of metacyclic forms (73%) underwent a complete differentiation process, resulting in a 100% amastigote culture with no promastigote forms. All other cultures (with a decreasing amount of metacyclic forms: 50% and fewer) failed to differentiate completely, resulting in cultures with increasing percentages of promastigote contamination. The amastigote/promastigote rate in these cultures has been maintained at the same level thus far. The axenic Leishmania amazonensis amastigotes were cryopreserved, thawed as such, and successfully cultivated under appropriately defined growth conditions.
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