Recombinant chimeric proteins generated from conserved regions of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 2 generate antiparasite humoral responses in mice.

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is complicated. In our previous studies, TLR4 was found involved in the process of infection by Acanthamoeba in human corneal cells. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signalling pathway in Wistar rats challenged with Aca...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ren MY,Wu XY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the antigenicity of p126 Plasmodium falciparum peptides with predicted antigenic regions identified using the methods described by Garnier et al. (1978) and Chou & Fasman (1974). For this purpose nine different P. falciparum peptides were synthesized in accordance with the deduced amino acid sequence of th...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ferreira-da-Cruz Mde F,Giovanni-de-Simone S,Banic DM,Canto-Cavalheiro M,Camus D,Daniel-Ribeiro CT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-leishmanial effect of the 'carbohydrate-fraction', isolated from an edible mushroom Astraeus hygrometricus, was evaluated against Leishmania donovani infection both in vitro and in vivo. Ahf-Car induced the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase 2 (iNOS2) and pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF-α and I...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hussain A,Ghosh S,Roy K,Nath S,Sarkar B,Dutta A,Maji P,Basu S,Paul S,Dey S,Chakraborty K,Raychaudhury B,Acharya K,Ganguly J,Pal C

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica infection has been shown to suppress sheep lymphocyte proliferation in vitro and this is at least partially attributable to excretory/secretory products (ES) released by F. hepatica parasites. We identified a suppressive component in ES by analysing the effect of ES fractions, separated by gel filtra...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Prowse RK,Chaplin P,Robinson HC,Spithill TW

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is good evidence for costs to both the uses of immune defences and their development and maintenance. The optimal defence will be a balance of these costs with the risk of infection and the virulence of the disease. It is therefore clear that the life-history characteristics of both host and parasite will impact...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Boots M,Donnelly R,White A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi was established in the reduviid vector, Dipetalogaster maximus, by repeated feedings on mice with high parasitaemias, and metacyclic trypomastigotes (IMT) were collected in insect urine after blood meals. The infectivity of IMT in mice was assessed by placing varying numbers of organis...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kirchhoff LV,Hoft DF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particular immunopathological features and their effects on the vascular permeability of different ocular structures were analysed in two dogs naturally infected by Leishmania infantum. The existence of specific anti-Leishmania immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the aqueous humour was confirmed by the ELISA technique. There wa...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： García-Alonso M,Blanco A,Reina D,Serrano FJ,Alonso C,Nieto CG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains one of the most serious health problems globally, but our understanding of the biology of the parasite and the pathogenesis of severe disease is still limited. Multiple cellular effector mechanisms that mediate parasite elimination from the liver have been described, but how effector cells use classica...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Frevert U,Nacer A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Our aim was to investigate the skin-homing T-cell immune responses triggered in patients with Demodex infestation and/or rosacea. METHODS:Collected whole blood samples were divided into four groups: control subjects; nonrosacea patients with Demodex infestation (Demodex group); papulopustular rosacea (PPR) patien...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gazi U,Gureser AS,Oztekin A,Karasartova D,Kosar-Acar N,Derici MK,Artuz F,Mumcuoglu KY,Taylan-Ozkan A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum from cats (Felis catus) that were repeatedly infected with Brugia pahangi and had become amicrofilaraemic (mf-ve) was injected intravenously into microfilaraemic (mf+ve) cats. If more than 1 microliter of immune serum per 1000 mf was injected, microfilarial counts fell dramatically within minutes and, in some ca...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Medeiros F,Baldwin CI,Denham DA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful parasite that can manipulate host immune responses to optimize its persistence and spread. As a result, a highly complex relationship exists between T. gondii and the immune system of the host. Advances in imaging techniques, and in particular, the application of two-photon mic...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Luu L,Coombes JL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, particularly Plasmodium falciparum, continues to disproportionately affect pregnant women. In addition to the profoundly deleterious impact of maternal malaria on the health of the mother and foetus, malaria infection in pregnancy has been shown to affect the development of the foetal and infant immune system...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Harrington WE,Kakuru A,Jagannathan P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fulani and Masaleit, sympatric tribes in eastern Sudan, are characterized by marked differences in susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum malaria. To determine whether the two tribes differ in the frequency of immunoglobulin GM/KM allotypes, which are associated with immunity to several pathogens, serum samples from ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pandey JP,Nasr A,Rocca KM,Troy-Blomberg M,Elghazali G

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:After several in vitro treatments of a virulent population of Leishmania major with the mutagen, N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), five clones (vir-) were obtained that did not produce cutaneous lesions after subcutaneous injection of 10(6) promastigotes. All the control clones (vir+) obtained from the non-...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Marchand M,Daoud S,Titus RG,Louis J,Boon T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac protoxin (pCry1Ac) is a promising mucosal immunogen and adjuvant that induces protective immunity against Naegleria fowleri and malaria infection models. We determined whether pCry1Ac acted as a protective adjuvant against infection with Taenia crassiceps. BALB/C mice were thrice i.p....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ibarra-Moreno S,García-Hernández AL,Moreno-Fierros L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

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：:The zymosan-triggered chemiluminescence response of peritoneal exudate cells from mice infected with relatively virulent or avirulent Toxoplasma gondii strains was examined at various intervals after infection. Toxoplasma infections increased the background chemiluminescence compared with controls, but higher values w...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Masihi KN,Werner H,Gillert KE,Lange W

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dirofilaria immitis is the agent of the heartworm disease in canids and felids, and of pulmonary dirofilariosis in man. Like other filariae, D. immitis harbours endosymbion Wolbachia bacteriae. In this work we analyse the response of specific IgE antibodies against both D. immitis antigens and the Wolbachia surface pr...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pou-Barreto C,Quispe-Ricalde MA,Morchón R,Vázquez C,Genchi M,Postigo I,Valladares B,Simón F

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of human peripheral blood granulocytes in response to microfilariae of O. volvulus was demonstrated using modified Boyden chambers. Granulocyte migration was significantly enhanced when microfilariae were preincubated with heat-inactivated immune serum (delta IS), then added to a fresh serum source (P less t...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： King CH,Spagnuolo PJ,Greene BM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysticercosis is acquired when swine ingest human faeces contaminated with Taenia solium eggs. Humans become tapeworm carriers when they ingest infected pork meat. They can also develop cysticercosis after inadvertently swallowing T. solium eggs. Human neurocysticercosis (NCC) is considered as a public health problem ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Flisser A,Gyorkos TW

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in hookworm immunoepidemiology are reviewed. Recent studies demonstrate a mixed Th1/Th2 response in human hookworm infection, with immunosuppression of specific and nonspecific IFN-gamma responses. There is increasing evidence for protective immunity in human hookworm infection, including anti-larval IL-5- an...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Quinnell RJ,Bethony J,Pritchard DI

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or Kala azar (KA) is a systemic disease caused by the parasites of the Leishmania donovani complex. Control measures rely on treatment with antileishmanial agents, however, fraught with problems such as toxicity or drug resistance. The incidence rate is on the rise for children, for reasons...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ansari NA,Kumar R,Raj A,Salotra P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is known to induce host cell death via activation of calpain and caspases. In this study, we investigated the specific proteases involved in the degradation of cytoskeletal proteins during Jurkat T-cell death induced by E. histolytica. Amoebic trophozoites induced marked degradation of paxillin, ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lee YA,Kim KA,Shin MH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody isotype and epitope specificities were examined in sheep immunized with EG95, a protective recombinant vaccine against hydatid disease. All sheep immunized with EG95 as a fusion protein with glutathione S-transferase (GST) produced prominent IgG antibodies against the EG95 portion of the protein. Linear, anti...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Woollard DJ,Gauci CG,Heath DD,Lightowlers MW

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether a protective immune response occurred in mice infected with a virulent cloned strain of Plasmodium chabaudi. Animals inoculated intravenously with 10(7) parasitized erythrocytes (PE) showed an exponentially increasing parasitaemia and died by day 6 of the infection, presenting a pronounced...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Falanga PB,Pereira da Silva L

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies and B cells are critical in the protective immune response to the blood stage of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi. However, little is known about the development of memory B cells and their differentiation into plasma cells during infection or after re-infection. Here we have shown that B cells wit...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Stephens R,Ndungu FM,Langhorne J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously observed MHC-restriction of the antibody response to an 86kDa S. mansoni antigen has been investigated in more detail. The I-A locus of the H-2 complex has been implicated as conferring responder or non-responder status on mice expressing the k and b alleles respectively. Inheritance of responsiveness w...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Schweitzer AN,Taylor DW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis japonicum is one of the most serious zoonotic diseases in the world. There is increasing evidence to show that host miRNAs are modulated following Schistosoma japonicum infection, and some of these miRNAs may play important regulatory roles in response to schistosome infection. Several host miRNAs have...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hong Y,Fu Z,Cao X,Lin J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00