Biochemical characterization and localization of Fasciola hepatica 26-28 kDa diagnostic coproantigen.

abstract：:The effect of the humoral immune response on the weight and fecundity of the hookworm Necator americanus was examined in an endemically-infected human population. There was a highly significant negative correlation between total IgE levels and parasite weight and fecundity, after controlling for any effects of host ag...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pritchard DI,Quinnell RJ,Walsh EA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is the aetiological agent of invasive amoebiasis, the third leading parasitic cause of mortality in the world. The disease can be easily cured by chemotherapy; however, prevention, mainly in the form of vaccination, could greatly decrease the incidence of the disease, and possibly help in its era...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gaucher D,Chadee K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge on immune mechanisms of chronic urticaria (CU) at the cytokine level is widely scarce. We compared pro- and anti-inflammatory as well as Th1- and Th2-associated serum cytokine levels in two phenotypes of CU: associated with (CU+) and without (CU⁻) sensitization against Anisakis simplex, a ubiquitous fish...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Daschner A,Rodero M,DE Frutos C,Valls A,Vega F,Blanco C,Cuéllar C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of the tissue lesions observed in American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) seems to depend on a variety of mechanisms. The present study was dedicated to the investigation of the evolution of muscle lesions and its relationship with immunological and parasitological parameters. Mice were infected i....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Silva JC,Pirmez C,Morgado MG,Galvão-Castro B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize immunodominant components of T. spiralis a workshop was organized. In this the reactivity of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, provided by different research groups, towards total extracts from adult, new born larvae and muscle larvae as well as to excretory/secretory components of muscle ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ortega-Pierres MG,Yepez-Mulia L,Homan W,Gamble HR,Lim PL,Takahashi Y,Wassom DI,Appleton JA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic nematodes are constantly exposed to the immune effector mechanisms of their hosts. One strategy of the worms to cope with these defence reactions is the secretion of modulatory proteins that down-regulate cell-mediated immune responses. We analysed the proliferation of mesenteric lymph node cells of mice inf...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rzepecka J,Lucius R,Doligalska M,Beck S,Rausch S,Hartmann S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surface enriched fraction was prepared from adults of Onchocerca volvulus by brief extraction of entire worms with detergent. This was then gel filtered to yield a low molecular weight fraction which functioned specifically in ELISA analysis. An identical result was also obtained when the related cattle parasite, O....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Cabrera Z,Parkhouse RM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17 kD protein of Necator americanus was isolated by SDS-PAGE and used to raise monospecific antisera in rabbits. ELISA and Western blotting against a range of parasite extracts demonstrated the species specificity of this protein. It is expressed at all stages of the life-cycle, appears to be accumulated through the...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pritchard DI,McKean PG,Rogan MT,Schad GA

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis poses a serious threat to public health, and the infection will develop into chronic and advanced late-stage disease if not treated. Apart from the clinical signs due to immune reactions to schistosome eggs trapped in host tissues, it also increases the risk for the development of autoimmunity reflecte...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Wang X,Fu Q,Song R,Duan B,Bergquist R,Xu J,Li S,Zhou D,Qin Z

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA immunization represents a promising vaccine strategy that has been reasonably successful, and will likely play an even greater role in vaccine development as these vaccines continue to be improved. We have developed a partially protective DNA vaccine against schistosome infection based on a 23-kDa integral membran...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Da'Dara AA,Skelly PJ,Walker CM,Harn DA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is responsible for the disease's greater morbidity and poor prognosis. Although understanding the pathophysiology of CCC and the fundamentals of its clinical management derives from research related to other cardiomyopathies, there are peculiarities that distinguish CCC from the oth...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Chaves AT,Menezes CAS,Costa HS,Nunes MCP,Rocha MOC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of macrophage/dendritic cell (DC) cytokine production by the filarial nematode phosphorylcholine (PC)-containing product, ES-62, is mediated by Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and signal transduction depends on the TLR adaptor MyD88. Intriguingly, comparison of TLR4 knock-out (ko) mice with TLR4 mutant C3H/HeJ m...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Goodridge HS,McGuiness S,Houston KM,Egan CA,Al-Riyami L,Alcocer MJ,Harnett MM,Harnett W

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes cause human and animal African trypanosomiases, which are chronic, debilitating and often fatal diseases of people and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. The extracellular protozoan parasites are exemplars of antigenic variation. They direct host-protective B-cell and T-cell immune responses towards...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Black SJ,Mansfield JM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a B10 (Lshs) genetic background, the development of acquired T cell mediated immunity to Leishmania donovani infection in mice is under H-2 linked genetic control. Following intravenous inoculation of 10(7) amastigotes three phenotypic patterns of recovery have been described: 'early cure' (H-2r,s), 'cure' (H-2b) a...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ulczak OM,Blackwell JM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-irradiated and gamma-irradiated schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni induce high levels of resistance to challenge infection in experimental hosts. It was observed that both types of irradiation severely inhibited protein synthesis by the parasite larvae. Schistosomula were treated with the metabolic inhibitor acti...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Wales A,Kusel JR,Jones JT

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soluble portion of a large particle fraction which was derived from the muscle larva of T. spiralis was subjected to molecular sizing column chromatography using Sephacryl S-200. Five major peaks of 280 nm absorbing material were obtained. Analysis by immunoelectrophoresis revealed that each peak contained antigen...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Despommier DD

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood eosinophilia, histology of skeletal muscle and brain, and larval recovery were compared between congenitally athymic nude mice (nu/nu) and thymus-bearing heterozygous littermates (nu/+) for 6 weeks following oral infection with Toxocara canis eggs. By comparing patterns of peripheral blood eosinophil ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis (NCC), one of the most common parasitic diseases of the central nervous system, is caused by Taenia solium. This parasite involves two hosts, intermediate hosts (pig and human) and a definitive host (human) and has various stages in its complex life cycle (eggs, oncosphere, cysticerci and adult tape...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Arora N,Tripathi S,Kumar P,Mondal P,Mishra A,Prasad A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat of African trypanosomes exhibits immunobiological functions distinct from its prominent role as a variant surface antigen. In order to address questions regarding immune stealth effects of VSG switch-variant coats, and the innate immune system activating effects of shed VSG ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mansfield JM,Paulnock DM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Plasmodium parasites are pathogens that induce significant perturbation and activation of the immune system. Due to their geographical overlap, there have been concerns that co-infection with the two pathogens may be a factor in the modification of their development, and in the s...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rénia L,Potter SM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culex pipiens and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were fed on C3H/HeJ mice and systemic cytokine production was quantified from stimulated lymphocytes harvested four to ten days after feeding. Mosquito feeding on C3H/HeJ mice significantly down regulated IFN gamma production seven to ten days post feeding by Cx. pipiens and ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Zeidner NS,Higgs S,Happ CM,Beaty BJ,Miller BR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CBA/J mice are resistant to Leishmania major infection but are permissive to L. amazonensis infection. In addition, CBA/J macrophages control L. major but not L. amazonensis infection in vitro. Phagocytosis by macrophages is known to determine the outcome of Leishmania infection. Pattern recognition receptors (PRR) ad...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gomes IN,Palma LC,Campos GO,Lima JG,DE Almeida TF,DE Menezes JP,Ferreira CA,Santos RR,Buck GA,Manque PA,Ozaki LS,Probst CM,DE Freitas LA,Krieger MA,Veras PS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of autoimmunity in the pathogenesis and progression of heart lesions in the chronic phase of Chagas' disease is controversial. In the absence of parasites in situ, the T cell infiltrate seen in heart lesions may be the primary determinant of tissue damage ultimately leading to heart failure and death. We used...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Cunha-Neto E,Moliterno R,Coelho V,Guilherme L,Bocchi E,Higuchi Mde L,Stolf N,Pileggi F,Steinman L,Kalil J

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of intestinal helminth infection, i.e. Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura, on cellular responsiveness and cytokine production was investigated in young adults. Ascaris-specific cellular responsiveness was higher in parasite-free endemic controls than in patients infected with T. trichiura, or A. l...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Geiger SM,Massara CL,Bethony J,Soboslay PT,Carvalho OS,Corrêa-Oliveira R

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of primary infections with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis was followed in nude (CBH/R nu/nu) and heterozygote (CBH/R nu/+) rats. In both nude and heterozygote rats peak egg production by N. brasiliensis occurred on days 7 and 8 post-infection. However, whereas in heterozygote rats egg production declined rapi...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Smith NC,Ovington KS,Bryant C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylcholine-bearing component levels in extracts of various parasites were determined by a capillary precipitin test using anti-phosphorylcholine Ig A myeloma protein. TEPC-15. Phosphorylcholine was demonstrated as a structural component not only in nematodes but also in trematodes and cestodes. The phosphorylch...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide (Cy) is known to produce a marked eosinophilia in mice after antigen challenge. In this study, we studied the effect of Cy on eosinophilia in helminthic infection. Peripheral blood eosinophils were counted in SJL mice following a large dose of Cy injection, infection with Toxocara canis, and both Cy i...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral responses of eight cats infected with Brugia pahangi to somatic antigens from all life-cycle stages were examined quantitatively by ELISA and qualitatively by immunoblotting for almost a year post infection. Six cats spontaneously became amicrofilaraemic: their production of IgG antibodies against somatic ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Fletcher C,Birch DW,Samad R,Denham DA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In schistosomiasis endemic areas, intensities of reinfection after treatment are greater amongst young children than amongst adults, and high levels of parasite-specific IgE are associated with resistance to reinfection in an age-dependent manner. Previously we have reported that, in Western blots, a 22 kDa band was r...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Dunne DW,Webster M,Smith P,Langley JG,Richardson BA,Fulford AJ,Butterworth AE,Sturrock RF,Kariuki HC,Ouma JH

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine proteinase enriched fractions obtained by thiol-sepharose chromatography of Ostertagia ostertagi membrane-bound protein extract (S3-thiol) or total adult excretory-secretory (ES-thiol) products were tested in a vaccination experiment to evaluate their protective efficacy against O. ostertagi in cattle. Calves...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Geldhof P,Claerebout E,Knox D,Vercauteren I,Looszova A,Vercruysse J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00