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Babesia/efeitos dos fármacos , Insulina/fisiologia , Putrescina/farmacologia , Ácido Selenioso/farmacologia , Transferrina/farmacologia , Animais , Babesia/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Babesia/fisiologia , Babesiose/parasitologia , Reatores Biológicos/parasitologia , Bovinos , Meios de Cultura Livres de Soro , Eritrócitos/parasitologia , Técnicas In VitroRESUMO
This study reports the effect of putrescine addition, either alone or in combination with insulin, transferrin and selenite (ITS), to serum-free Advanced DMEM/F12 (A-DMEM/F12) medium, on the in vitro culture of Babesia bovis and using a perfusion bioreactor to improve efficiency of the process. A B. bovis strain previously adapted to proliferate in serum-free medium (Bbovis-SF) was evaluated using eight increasing concentrations of putrescine. The percentage of parasitized erythrocytes (PPE) obtained from cultures supplemented with 0.101 mg/L was 6.23% compared with 2.3% for control cultures with M199 with Earle's salts (M199) and 40% serum. The combination of putrescine (0.101 mg/L) and a mixture of ITS (2000, 1100, and 1.34 mg/L, respectively) (Pu-ITS), in A-DMEM/F12 culture medium without serum yielded a maximum PPE of 17.26% compared to 2.58% in the control medium. This new formulation of culture medium, together with the use of a hollow-fiber perfusion bioreactor system (HFPBS), caused a substantial increase in the proliferation of B. bovis, yielding a maximum cumulative PPE of 118.8% after five days, compared to 58.6% in cultures treated with control medium M199 and 40% serum. We concluded that the addition of the ITS mixture and putrescine to the culture medium stimulated the proliferation of B. bovis in vitro. This new medium formulation, used in a HFPBS culture system, can be an effective, automated-prone system that can induce massive proliferation of B. bovis for use as a source of parasite antigens and immunogens.
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Babesia bovis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Reatores Biológicos , Eritrócitos/parasitologia , Putrescina/metabolismo , Animais , Reatores Biológicos/parasitologia , Reatores Biológicos/veterinária , Bovinos , Criopreservação/veterinária , Meios de Cultura Livres de Soro , Insulina/metabolismo , Ácido Selenioso/metabolismo , Transferrina/metabolismoRESUMO
En fermentaciones aerobias el oxígeno, como aceptor terminal de electrones en el proceso de respiración, comúnmente se constituye en limitante debido entre otros factores al diseño del biorreactor (factores geométricos), a las condiciones de operación de los fermentadores (condiciones ambientales requeridas en el cultivo, potencia transferida al cultivo por el sistema de agitación, propiedades del medio líquido), demanda de oxígeno por parte del microorganismo, sistema de aireación (concentración de oxígeno en el gas, solubilidad del oxígeno). La limitación de oxígeno se refleja en la fermentación con Lactococcus lactis cepa IBUN 34.1, en que presenta una baja disponibilidad de oxígeno desde muy temprano en la fase exponencial del cultivo. Para superar estas limitaciones se diseñó y desarrolló un sistema de suministro de oxígeno de alta tasa de transferencia, consistente en un sistema de fermentación con aireación externa (SFAE), el cual es comparado en este trabajo con el sistema tradicional de fermentador agitado dotado con dos turbinas tipo Rushton y aireación por difusor interno. En este trabajo se evalúa la operación del SFAE, se seleccionan y estudian algunas variables operacionales y su efecto sobre la transferencia de oxígeno gas-líquido. Los resultados indican que las variables que tienen efecto significativo sobre el coeficiente volumétrico global de transferencia de masa kLa son la agitación y el flujo de medio de cultivo que circula por el aireador externo denominado flujo de recirculación. Los valores de kLa obtenidos indican que con el fermentador convencional con aireación interna el mayor valor de kLa alcanzado fue de 40,68 (h-1), en tanto que con el SFAE se alcanzaron valores de 63,18 (h-1).
In aerobic fermentations, oxygen as terminal electron acceptor in respiration process, is commonly a limiting due to factors like its low solubility in aqueous solutions, bioreactors geometric factors and operating characteristics, liquid media properties, oxygen concentration in gas supply, microorganisms characteristics, environmental culture conditions, power supply by agitation system, etc. Oxygen limitation is present in cultures using the IBUN 34.1 Lactococcus lactis strain where oxygen availability is low some minutes after the exponential phase starts. A high transfer rate oxygen supply system was thus designed to overcome such limitations; it consisted of an external aeration fermentation system (EAFS) which was compared in this work with a conventional agitated tank fermenter equipped with two Rushton turbines and internal diffuser aeration flute mechanism.This paper evaluates the EAFS; some operational variables were selected and studied as well as their effect on oxygen transfer. Our results showed that agitation and culture medium flow through the aerator (called external recirculation flow) were the variables having the main effect on overall volumetric mass transfer coefficient (kLa). The highest kLa value in the conventional bioreactor having internal aeration was 40.68 kLa (h-1), while the EAFS reached 90 (h-1).