Abstract
As a series of studies on the suitability as a second intermediate host of Clonorchis sinensis, artificial infection experiments were applied to Tilapia mossambica. And then, in order to elucidate the defence mechanism of the fish to Clonorchis, clonorchicidal substance in the epidermal mucus of the fish was isolated by silica gel column and thin layer chromatography and analyzed for its chemical structure by UV, IR and NMR-spectroscopy. The results obtained are summarized as follows: 1. The cercariae which attempted to contact with the fish in the water were observed under stereomicroscope. After contact, the cercariae began to separate their tail from the body after several minutes and then the number increased to $80\%$ more than 10 minutes after the encounter. But very few cercariae could actually invade the epidermis of the fish. 2. The fish were reared with Parafossarulus manchouricus which were shedding numerous cercariae of Clonorchis in the aquarium for 24 hours. Only a few cercariae could invade the epidermis but most of the invaded cercariae died out before forming their cysts. Very few number of the remaining encysted cercariae were also found to be in a state of suspended animation within 42 hours. 3. In the cases of the control fish, Pseudorasbora parva, numerous cercariae of Clonorchis were found to invade the fish through the epidermis under stereomicroscope. Then many metacercariae of Clonorchis were also found in the fish while they were kept in the aquarium. 4. A sample of the epidermal mucus of Tilapia mossambica was extracted with ethly ether 6 times repeatedly. In silica gel column chromatography, using petroleum ether: chloroform/30:70(v/v) as a first solvent and MeOH as a second solvent, the extract was fractionated into the yellow and brownish red solutions in the first solvent and the clonorchicidal brownish yellow solution in the second sovent. 5. The clonorchicidal brownish yellow solution was added to petroleum ether, and the mixture was stored for 5 days at $5^{\circ}C$ and was, then, separated into supernatant fraction and precipitate. Ten mg/ml of the supernatant fraction killed, in vitro, the excysted metacercariae in 45 minutes but the precipitate in 600 minutes. 6. In silica gel column chromatography, using acetone: benzene/10:90(v/v) as a solvent, the more clonorchicidal supernatant fraction was fractionated into the first fraction with Rf. 0.2966 and the second fraction with Rf. 0.072. In vitro, 10mg/ml of the first fraction killed the excysted metacercariae in 28 minutes, the second fraction in 80 minutes and the first fraction was, therefore, determined to be a final clonorchicidal substance. 7. By this purification procedures, the most clonorchicidal substance from the epidermal mucus of Tilapia mossambica was purified 71-folds with $0.2075\%$ yield. Infra red, nuclear magnetic resonance and ultraviolet spectrometric analysis of the purified substance revealed that the substance is linoleic acid. According to the results of the present studies it seemed that this species can not serve as a proper intermediate host of Clonorchis sinensis, and that defence mechanism to the fluke seems to be correlated with linoleic acid in the epidermal mucus of this species.
틸라피아(Tilapia mossambica)에 대한 간흡충의 제2중간정도로서의 역할 여부를 구명하기 위한 일환으로 우선 간흡충 유미유충의 틸라피아 치어에 대한 인공감염실험을 수행하여 그 역할을 할 수 없다는 사실을 천명한 다음 그 방어기전을 규명하기 위하여 그 체표면 점액으로부터 살충성 물질을 순수분리하여 기기분석을 통하여 그 화학적 구조를 확인한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 입체현미경하에서 틸라피아 치어를 유미유충에 조우를 시도한 바 일반적으로 유미유충은 수분 후에 미부가 체부로부터 분리하기 시작하여 시간이 경과함에 따라 그 수가 증가하여 10여분 후에는 $80\%$에 이르렀으나 극히 소수의 유미유충은 어체표면에 부착한 채 체부만이 어체내로 침입하고 미부는 분리되었다. 2. 틸라피아 치어를 실내수조에서 유미유충에 24시간 노출시킨 바 일부 유미유충은 어체내로 침입하였으나 그 대부분이 피낭한 극소수도 4.2 시간 이내에 거의 모두 사감하였다. 3. 틸라피아의 체표면 점액의 에테르 추출물을 여러 단계의 화학적 처리를 거쳐 제3단계에서 분획한 유백색 상청액을 박막크로마토그라휘하여 얻은 2개의 반점물질을 간흡충의 탈낭유충에 in vitro에서 직접 접촉시켜 살충시험을 수행한 바 그 중에서 제1반점인 Rf. 0.2966 값의 물질이 다른 것에 비교하여 살충성의 월등하게 강력하였다. 4. 틸라피아의 체표면 점액의 에테르 유출물 66.50g으로부터 138mg의 살충성 순수물질이 회수되었으며, 그 수율은 $0.2075\%$, 그 정제도는 71배이었다. 5. 순수하게 분리된 살충성물질에 대하여 적외선, 자외선 및 핵자기공명 분광분석을 이용하여 구조확인을 하였던 바 이 물질은 linoleic acid로 판명되였다. 이상의 실험결과로 미루어 보아 틸라피아는 자연계에 있어서 간흡충의 제2중간숙주 역할을 할 수 없으며, 그 체표면 정액내의 살충성물질인 linoleic acid가 그 방제기전에 관여하고 있다고 생각한다.