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To develop P. carinii infection, Sprague-Dawley female rats were immunosuppressed with dexamethasone and then trans-tracheally inoculated with 0.2 ml of homogenate of an infected rat lung containing 1 × 10 6 P. carinii trophozoites or with a homogenate of uninfected rat lung as controls as described previously [ 33].
In addition, trophozoites are characterized by massive hemoglobin ingestion, intake of nutrients from the surrounding medium, increasing concentration of cytoplasmic ribosomes and rapid formation of organelles.
After contact with the type I pneumocyte, P. carinii trophozoites anchor themselves to the host cell.
Gene-expression profiling of trophozoites and schizonts
Of the genes assayed, 854 features displayed a differential expression greater than twofold (Figure 5): 525 showed higher relative transcript abundance in trophozoites than in schizonts, whereas 326 had greater relative transcript abundance in schizonts.