Humoral immune responses during a malaria vaccine trial in Tanzanian infants.

abstract：:Plasma from chronic or advanced hepatosplenic schistosomiasis (mansoni) patients (PCS) suppressed mitogen-induced responses of normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. 1 x 10(5) Ficoll-Hypaque isolated lymphocytes were cultured in 100 microliter RPMI 1640 media with 100 microliter plasma preparation and stimul...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kamal KA,Higashi GI

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：:During African trypanosomiasis, macrophages play a central role in T cell hyporesponsiveness to parasite-related and unrelated antigens. In this study, the ability of macrophages from Trypanosoma b. brucei-infected mice to present exogenous antigens to a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-restricted CD4+ ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Namangala B,Brys L,Magez S,De Baetselier P,Beschin A

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:Fasciola hepatica secretes a cathepsin L proteinase that is suggested to play an in vivo role in immunoprotection since the enzyme can cleave host immunoglobulin. In the present report, rabbit anti-cathepsin L IgG was shown to bind to the cathepsin L enzyme and inhibit its ability to cleave IgG molecules. Cathepsin L ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Smith AM,Carmona C,Dowd AJ,McGonigle S,Acosta D,Dalton JP

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Previous experiments have shown that genetic resistance to infection by Teladorsagia circumcincta in sheep can be measured by the level of IgA in gastric mucus, jointly with other parameters. The aim of this study has been to observe the influence of IgA on adult worms. The experiment was carried out with Chur...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Martínez-Valladares M,Vara-Del Río MP,Cruz-Rojo MA,Rojo-Vázquez FA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematode parasites cause significant infections in both humans and animals. They are complex, multicellular organisms that present unique challenges for the host, in particular with respect to the recognition of their unusual surface structures by the innate defence system. The innate immune system is now recognized t...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： de Veer MJ,Kemp JM,Meeusen EN

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in animal models suggest that protection against malaria induced by intradermal (ID) administration of sporozoites is less effective compared to intravenous injection (IV). We investigated in a murine model the protective efficacy and immune responses after ID or IV immunization of sporozoites. Mice were immun...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Nganou-Makamdop K,Ploemen I,Behet M,Van Gemert GJ,Hermsen C,Roestenberg M,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemonchus contortus is an economically important parasite that survives the host defense system by modulating the immune response. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is secreted by the parasite and the host responds by producing anti-enzyme antibodies. The enzyme inhibits complement cascade, an arm of t...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rajan P,Mishra PKK,Joshi P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Merozoite surface protein 8 (MSP-8) of Plasmodium parasites plays an important role in erythrocyte invasion and is a potential malaria vaccine candidate. METHODS AND RESULTS:In this study, virus-like particles (VLPs) expressing MSP-8 of Plasmodium berghei on the surface of influenza virus matrix protein 1 (M1) co...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lee SH,Chu KB,Kang HJ,Basak S,Kim MJ,Park H,Jin H,Moon EK,Quan FS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas' disease or American trypanosomiasis due to Trypanosoma cruzi has existed at least since the time of the Inca empire and contributes significantly to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in several countries of this continent. Due to the fundamental role of human class II molecules polymorphic residues in the...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Fernandez-Mestre MT,Layrisse Z,Montagnani S,Acquatella H,Catalioti F,Matos M,Balbas O,Makhatadze N,Dominguez E,Herrera F,Madrigal A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep were sensitized by weekly infections with Teladorsagia circumcincta over a 9-week period. After a 12-week rest, sheep were divided into four groups and killed without challenge or 3, 5 and 10 days post challenge (DPC) with 50000 L3. Recovery of challenge larvae from abomasal scrapings was highest at 3 DPC while ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Balic A,Bowles VM,Liu YS,Meeusen EN

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:Serum antibody responses of mice exposed to Philippine isolates of Schistosoma japonicum have been analysed by immunoprecipitation of exogenously radiolabelled antigens extracted from adult worms. Attention was focused on labelled protein antigens differentially recognized by sera of mice that differ genetically in th...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mitchell GF,Beall JA,Cruise KM,Tiu WU,Garcia EG

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：: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 longitudinal study was undertaken in Burkina Faso among 293 children aged 6 months to 9 years in order to determine the correlation between an antibody response to several individual malarial antigens and malarial infection. It was found that the presence of a positive antibody response at the beginning of the rainy...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Meraldi V,Nebié I,Tiono AB,Diallo D,Sanogo E,Theisen M,Druilhe P,Corradin G,Moret R,Sirima BS

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal cohort studies are important to describe the dynamics of naturally acquired antibody response profiles to defined Plasmodium falciparum malaria antigens relative to clinical malaria episodes. In children under 7 years of age in The Gambia, serum IgG responses were measured to P. falciparum merozoite antig...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Akpogheneta OJ,Dunyo S,Pinder M,Conway DJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indonesian thin-tail (ITT) sheep can resist infection with Fasciola gigantica but not F. hepatica and presents an ideal model to investigate the mechanisms of liver fluke resistance in a natural host. This study examines the local and systemic immune responses of sheep during Fasciola infection and demonstrates that d...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pleasance J,Wiedosari E,Raadsma HW,Meeusen E,Piedrafita D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with lethal P. berghei or P. yoelii malaria develop anti-lymphocyte autoantibodies less than a week after infection. The autoantibodies are IgM, T-dependent and cytotoxic to a subpopulation of non-T lymphocytes at 37 degrees C in the presence of mouse or guinea-pig complement. Non-lethal P. yoelii and P....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： de Souza JB,Playfair JH

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:Trypanosoma congolense is one of the main species responsible for Animal African Trypanosomosis (AAT). As preventive vaccination strategies for AAT have been unsuccessful so far, investigating the mechanisms underlying vaccine failure has to be prioritized. In T. brucei and T. vivax infections, recent studies revealed...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Obishakin E,de Trez C,Magez S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro released products of the adult stage of the bovine lungworm. Dictyocaulus viviparus, were characterized according to their SDS-PAGE profile, glycosylation pattern, in vitro synthesis and antigenicity in the context of infection and vaccination with irradiated larvae. Biosynthetic labelling experiments with 35...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Britton C,Canto GJ,Urquhart GM,Kennedy MW

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Recent advances in molecular genetics and in imaging mean that it is now increasingly feasible to image biological processes within helminth parasites and to visualize interactions between worms and their hosts. Moreover, other innovative imaging approaches that are not dependent on transgenic parasites have been appl...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pearce EJ,Lok JB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells play a critical role in determining the disease outcome in murine cutaneous leishmaniasis, and selective usage of T-cell receptor (TCR) is implied in promoting Leishmania major infection. However, little information is available on TCR usage in Leishmania-specific, IFN-γ-producing CD4(+) T cells. In thi...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Xin L,Wanderley JL,Wang Y,Vargas-Inchaustegui DA,Soong L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A limiting dilution microculture system was optimized to quantify the frequency of Theileria parva-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors (CTLp) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from immune cattle. Optimal results were obtained with responder cell input levels ranging from 2 x 10(4)/well to 6.25 x 10(2...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Taracha EL,Goddeeris BM,Scott JR,Morrison WI

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani, the causative parasite of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), deviously manipulates host monocytes/macrophages to ensure its survival. Although monocytes/macrophages from patients with VL have demonstrated an impaired oxidative burst and antigen presentation, an unanswered yet pertinent question remains ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Roy S,Mukhopadhyay D,Mukherjee S,Moulik S,Chatterji S,Brahme N,Pramanik N,Goswami RP,Saha B,Chatterjee M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic nude mice of the outbred Zur:ICR-nu and inbred BALB/c strain and scid mice were infected with a cloned human isolate of Giardia lamblia (GS/M-83-H7). Changes in the expression of the major surface epitope of the intestinal trophozoites (characterized by the binding capacity of monoclonal antibody MoAbG10/4) as...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gottstein B,Nash TE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude total antigen (CTA) from Leishmania infantum and recombinant antigen K39 (rK39) and recombinant antigen K28 (rK28) were compared using an ELISA for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniosis (CVL). Forty-two blood samples from healthy dogs from a nonendemic area and 80 blood samples from an endemic area for ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Venturin GL,Bragato JP,Silva KL,de Lima VM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00