Effects of excessive dietary zinc or zinc/cadmium and tapeworm infection on the biochemical parameters in rats

Abstract

Heavy metal contamination is a major environmental issue that affects the ecology of ecosystems and, consequently, health of live beings. Heavy metals occur through natural sources and anthropogenic emissions of industrial and agricultural origins.The common rat tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta, Cestoda, Platyhelminthes) is a common parasite of rodents (including laboratory rodents) but it is known to infect humans as well. For this reason, there is an idea that experimental infection with H. diminuta may serve as a promising model for helminth therapy of human immunemediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) because the cestode establishes long-term, stable colonization in hosts and modulates the immune system without causing bacterial dysbiosis (Kosik-Bogacka

Significance of Intestinal Helminth Infection and Animal Sex for Mercury Concentrations in Two Rodent Species

“…Intestinal helminth infections affect several parameters in the host including biochemical parameters (Sloup et al 2021). Intestinal helminth infections may cause immunological responses and pathophysiological changes in their hosts.…”